Tears (Namida)
by Paul Binnie
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Scholten Japanese Art
Description
"Tears" (Namida) is among the most emotionally direct titles in Binnie's catalog — a single word that announces a subject usually treated with more circumlocution in bijin-ga. Tears in a female face are a classic subject of emotional intensity in the genre, and Binnie's version engages with this directness without sentimentality: the print's visual vocabulary of precise woodblock color and form holds the emotion within the controlled space of the image, the feeling genuine but formally contained.
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Tears (Namida) was created by Paul Binnie.
Tears (Namida) depicts figures, bijin-ga, and portraits.