Late Summer - Natsu Takete — 夏たけて
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$1,500–$12,000. Common subjects: $1,500–$4,000. Key value factors: Shimura's refined bijin-ga have a devoted collector base. Earlier prints and rarer subjects command premiums.
The languid heat of late summer pervades this [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print, titled "Natsu Takete" in Japanese. Shimura Tatsumi depicts a woman in the final stretch of the hot season, when summer's intensity begins to soften into the first hints of autumn. The figure's clothing and posture reflect the season's warmth, perhaps a lighter kimono or yukata, the fabric loosened against the heat. Shimura's seasonal [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) prints treated time of year not as mere backdrop but as a force that shaped how women dressed, moved, and held themselves, making weather and climate active participants in the composition.
広隆寺牛祭
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七月 (祇園祭山鉾巡行)
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Late Summer - Natsu Takete — 夏たけて was created by Shimura Tatsumi (志村立美) in Not set.
Late Summer - Natsu Takete — 夏たけて was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Not set).
Late Summer - Natsu Takete — 夏たけて depicts summer.
