Bunraku (G), Shôwa period, dated 1961
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
Description
By 1961 Saito had produced multiple bunraku prints—labeled with sequential letters to distinguish variants—and the (G) version likely shows a different puppet character type or a distinct compositional angle from the earlier versions. The theatrical doll's formal qualities suited his mature aesthetic perfectly: the carved face was already an abstraction, already a simplification of human features made to read at distance, already halfway to the kind of reductive portraiture he had been pursuing since the 1940s.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Bunraku (G), Shôwa period, dated 1961 was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Bunraku (G), Shôwa period, dated 1961 depicts kabuki.