Red Lantern Shop
by Maki Haku
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Maki Haku
The red lantern shop subject seems incongruous in Maki Haku's catalog — it is more the domain of [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) artists working in a representational urban mode. If this work belongs to his early period before his abstract direction fully consolidated, it may document an exploratory phase when he was still negotiating between observation and invention. Alternatively, it may treat the commercial street subject as abstract material, the lantern's red circle becoming a formal element within a graphic field.
Woodblock print
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1922
Color woodblock print
行商人
c. 1940
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Red Lantern Shop was created by Maki Haku (巻白).
Red Lantern Shop depicts market scenes and daily life.
