A Collection of Eastern Brocade Beauties: Morning Tears (Azuma nishiki bijin awase: Asa ni Namida)
by Paul Binnie
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Scholten Japanese Art
by Paul Binnie
$2,000–$15,000. Beauty prints by this artist are particularly sought after. Good landscapes and figures: $5,000–$10,000. Key value factors: As a living artist continuing the shin-hanga tradition, Binnie's prints are investment-quality. Limited editions and larger formats are most valued.
"Morning Tears" from the Eastern Brocade Beauties series (Azuma nishiki bijin awase: Asa ni Namida) captures the emotional aftermath of a night's end — the tears that come with morning light, whether of joy, parting, or the unnamed feeling that follows intimate experience. Binnie's treatment of this theme in the [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) mode gives the subject's emotional specificity a formal restraint: the face may or may not show tears directly, but the print's atmosphere makes the feeling unmistakable.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Collection of Eastern Brocade Beauties: Morning Tears (Azuma nishiki bijin awase: Asa ni Namida) was created by Paul Binnie.
A Collection of Eastern Brocade Beauties: Morning Tears (Azuma nishiki bijin awase: Asa ni Namida) depicts bijin-ga.
