Unknown Bijin 2
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$1,500–$12,000. Beauty prints by this artist are particularly sought after. Good bijin-ga prints: $4,000–$8,000. Key value factors: Shimura's refined bijin-ga have a devoted collector base. Earlier prints and rarer subjects command premiums.
This [oban](/glossary/oban) woodblock print presents an unidentified beautiful woman, one of Shimura Tatsumi's many portrayals of anonymous feminine beauty that together form a collective portrait of idealized womanhood. Without a specific title referencing activity, season, or location, the composition relies entirely on the figure's presence, her posture, expression, kimono, and hairstyle to carry the image. Shimura's unnamed bijin prints distill his aesthetic to its purest form, presenting beauty as a self-sufficient subject requiring no narrative justification. The careful rendering of textile patterns and skin tones reveals the full technical range of the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) collaborative printing process at its most refined.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Unknown Bijin 2 was created by Shimura Tatsumi (志村立美) in Not set.
Unknown Bijin 2 was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Not set).
Unknown Bijin 2 depicts bijin-ga.
