Two Pair of Eyes — 二人の瞳
- Date:
- 1996
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
$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.
Published in 1996 as a posthumous edition, this [oban](/glossary/oban) print depicts two figures whose gazes create the "two pairs of eyes" named in the title. Shimura Tatsumi constructs a composition organized around the act of looking, with two women whose visual attention creates intersecting lines of sight within the image. The Japanese title "Futari no Hitomi" emphasizes the eyes specifically, making vision itself the subject. This dual-figure composition is relatively unusual in Shimura's predominantly single-figure [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) practice, and the relationship between the two women, whether conversational, conspiratorial, or coincidental, adds a narrative dimension absent from his solitary portraits.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Two Pair of Eyes — 二人の瞳 was created by Shimura Tatsumi (志村立美) in 1996.
Two Pair of Eyes — 二人の瞳 was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1996).
Two Pair of Eyes — 二人の瞳 depicts figures and bijin-ga.
