Bijin With Fan in Garden
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$1,000–$15,000. Beauty prints by this artist are particularly sought after. Original prints and illustrations: $4,000–$8,000. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
A bijin fans herself in a garden, the rhythmic motion of the fan against summer heat creating a small, private moment within the larger world of the seasonal garden in this composition by Yumeji. The fan was among the most expressive objects in the Taisho bijin's repertoire — a tool of cooling and of concealment, of beckoning and of dismissal, capable of communicating emotional states that the face was expected to suppress. Yumeji's figure uses hers with the same ambiguity that attaches to all his accessories: it is a prop and an expression simultaneously.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bijin With Fan in Garden was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Bijin With Fan in Garden depicts bijin-ga and gardens.
