
Harvard Art Museum
by Shima Seien
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
Description
This oban woodblock print is connected to the Harvard Art Museum, one of America's foremost university art collections, which houses significant holdings of Japanese prints spanning from Edo-period ukiyo-e to modern hanga. Seien's work within this institutional context is placed alongside prints by masters across centuries, providing a framework for understanding the artist's position within the long arc of Japanese printmaking. The Harvard collection's scholarly orientation means the print has likely been studied, published, and exhibited in educational contexts that emphasize art-historical connections. Seien's contribution to the bijin-ga tradition is well represented in the refined figure work visible in the print.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Harvard Art Museum was created by Shima Seien (島成園).
Harvard Art Museum depicts figures and bijin-ga.



![The Heroine Yûgiri, from the Chikamatsu play Yûgiri Awa no Naruto (published in The Complete Works of Chikamatsu [Dai Chikamatsu zenshû]), Taishô period, published 1923 by Shima Seien](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/harvard/HUAM-CARP07179.jpg)



