Western style dancing
- Date:
- 1934
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$5,000–$40,000. Common subjects: $5,000–$10,000. Key value factors: Very limited output makes all prints relatively scarce. The 'Styles of Contemporary Make-up' series is most collected.
"Western Style Dancing," from 1934, depicts the social phenomenon of Western-style ballroom dancing — waltzes, foxtrots, and tangos — that had become fashionable in Japanese urban centers by the early 1930s. Dance halls where couples moved together in Western styles were sites of contested modernity in interwar Japan: signs of cosmopolitan sophistication to some, dangerous foreign influence to others. Kobayakawa renders the scene with the sympathetic directness that characterized all his observations of modern Japanese life, making the couple's movement a cultural as well as physical fact.
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Woodblock print
1/1931
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1924
Oil on board
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Western style dancing was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in 1934.
Western style dancing was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1934).
Western style dancing depicts music.
