A Sitting Beauty with Kimono, Maiko
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$200–$2,000. Common Kyoto views: $200–$500. Key value factors: Kotozuka's Kyoto prints are popular and affordable. Seasonal temple scenes and garden views are most sought after.
A seated maiko in formal kimono presents one of Kotozuka's rare departures from architectural landscape into figure study. The maiko — the apprentice geisha who embodies Kyoto's most carefully preserved performance traditions — sits with the particular composed stillness of her training, her elaborate kimono spread around her. Kotozuka's treatment of the female figure brings the same attentiveness to color and surface he applies to temple architecture, treating the kimono's patterns with the care usually reserved for garden detail.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Sitting Beauty with Kimono, Maiko was created by Kotozuka Eiichi (琴塚英一) in Not set.
A Sitting Beauty with Kimono, Maiko depicts bijin-ga.
