two Japanese men playing darts at night
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
Two Japanese men are engaged in the traditional game of darts — possibly the board game fukuwarai or a festival dart-throwing game — under the illumination of paper lanterns at night. The night setting and bokashi treatment create an atmosphere of festive leisure, the lantern light casting the two players in warm isolation against the surrounding darkness. Shotei's depiction of men at play rather than at work or in motion was relatively unusual in his figure work, and the night setting gives the image an intimate, observed quality.
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two Japanese men playing darts at night was created by Takahashi Shotei (高橋松亭).
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