Bunraku Puppets
Typical Price
$1,000–$15,000. Reproductions and common prints: $1,000–$3,000. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
$1,000–$15,000. Reproductions and common prints: $1,000–$3,000. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
Bunraku puppets — the eerily lifelike figures of Japanese puppet theater, manipulated by black-robed handlers in one of the most technically demanding performance arts in the world — appear in this undated Yumeji composition, their elaborate costumes and expressive carved faces giving the print an uncanny, slightly disturbing energy. Yumeji was engaged with Japanese theatrical culture, and the bunraku puppets offered him figures of emotional intensity comparable to his bijin but entirely constructed, their feelings manufactured rather than felt — a tension that suited his sensibility.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Bunraku Puppets was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Bunraku Puppets depicts kabuki.
