Evening Primrose — 宵待草
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$1,000–$15,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
The evening primrose — "yoimachigusa," the flower that waits for evening — gave its name to one of Yumeji's most beloved poems and songs, a lyric about waiting, longing, and the impossibility of the union waited for. The flower itself, which opens only at dusk and wilts by morning, is the perfect Yumeji emblem: beauty that exists only in the transitional, melancholy hours, beauty that is inseparable from its own brevity. This print — bearing the Japanese title "宵待草" — translates the famous poem's feeling into visual form, the flower standing for the waiting woman.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
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1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Evening Primrose — 宵待草 was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Evening Primrose — 宵待草 depicts night scenes.
