Tanjaku- Poetry Card — 短冊
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
"Tanjaku — Poetry Card" (短冊, tanzaku) depicts the long, narrow strips of decorated paper on which Japanese poetry was traditionally inscribed — the tanzaku used for writing and hanging poems at the Tanabata festival, in tea ceremony contexts, and as decorative items associated with refined cultural life. Shuntei's subject may be women writing poetry on tanzaku, or the tanzaku themselves as decorative objects in a domestic setting. Either way, the subject connected his genre work to the long tradition associating Japanese women with poetic cultivation and literary refinement.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tanjaku- Poetry Card — 短冊 was created by Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀) in Not set.
Tanjaku- Poetry Card — 短冊 depicts figures, bijin-ga, and calligraphy.
