A Star Stream — 星の流れ
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
A Star Stream, titled in Japanese as Hoshi no Nagare, is an oban-format woodblock print that transforms the night sky into flowing water. The title conflates celestial and aquatic imagery, suggesting a river of stars or the Milky Way seen as a luminous current overhead. Iwata's print renders this cosmic subject through the woodblock medium's capacity for layered color and precise registration, giving physical form to something inherently ephemeral. The oban format provides enough surface area for the streaming composition to develop its full sense of movement across the paper.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
A Star Stream — 星の流れ was created by Sentaro Iwata (岩田専太郎).
A Star Stream — 星の流れ depicts rivers & lakes.