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Song of Spring by Yeh Lan — Japanese Chinese brush painting, 2013

Song of Spring

by Yeh Lan

Date:
2013
Medium:
Chinese brush painting
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

Flagging a data mismatch before writing this up: the image and metadata don't match a Japanese print. This is a Chinese brush painting (guóhuà, xieyi/freehand ink-and-wash style) — Chinese calligraphy and red seal stamps, not a woodblock print — consistent with the given medium ("Chinese brush painting"), the artist name "Yeh Lan," and the 2013 date. Nothing about it fits Hanga's ukiyo-e/shin-hanga/sōsaku-hanga scope. I'd hold this out of the Japanese-print catalog rather than insert it as one — worth checking how this record entered the queue.

For reference, here's a factual description of what's shown, in case it's useful for a review/rejection note:

A kingfisher with an orange breast, blue-grey banded wings, a dark head, and a long dark bill perches on a slender black branch, facing right with a small red fruit or bud in its beak. Clusters of mauve-purple blossoms and loosely brushed green leaves surround the bird against a plain cream ground, rendered in soft ink washes typical of xieyi brush painting. Columns of Chinese calligraphy appear at the upper right and upper left, with red seal stamps in the upper left and lower right corners.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Song of Spring was created by Yeh Lan in 2013.

Song of Spring depicts spring.