Woman and Attendant (descriptive title)
- Date:
- 1897
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Beauty subjects are especially sought after in this category. 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.
A woman and her attendant — a compositional pairing deep in the bijin-ga tradition, from the Edo period through the Meiji era — depicted in Shuntei's characteristic mode of social observation. The relationship between a woman of higher social position and her serving attendant was a rich subject for observation: the differential in dress, bearing, and social role; the specific dynamics of service and companionship; the way social hierarchy was performed in everyday domestic interactions. Shuntei renders this pairing with the precision of an artist who understood its social dimensions.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman and Attendant (descriptive title) was created by Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀) in 1897.
Woman and Attendant (descriptive title) depicts figures, bijin-ga, and daily life.
