Opening the Teahouse
by Ogata Gekko
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
The Opening the Teahouse print—likely depicting a woman opening the sliding screens of a tea establishment to the morning air—was a subject combining the ritual beginning of the day's business with a moment of quiet domestic poetry. The gradual revealing of interior space as the screens are pushed aside, the morning light entering the teahouse, and the figure in movement within that liminal moment between closed and open gave Gekko a subject of gentle temporal specificity.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Opening the Teahouse was created by Ogata Gekko (尾形月耕).
Opening the Teahouse depicts architecture.