Kimono — 着物

"Kimono" (着物, 1898) focuses on the garment itself — the kimono as a primary subject rather than as the clothing context for a figure. Whether depicting the kimono being worn, displayed, or prepared for wearing, Shuntei approaches the subject with attention to the specific quality of the garment's material: the fall of silk, the pattern of the textile, the color relationships achieved through the dyer's and weaver's art. The kimono as a subject in Japanese print culture connected the bijin-ga figure tradition to the textile appreciation tradition that was equally fundamental to Japanese aesthetic culture.