$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.
A long undergarment — the nagajuban worn beneath the outer kimono — appears as both garment and compositional subject in this undated Yumeji print. Yumeji was deeply attentive to the layered sartorial world of Taisho women, and the undergarment — intimate, personal, visible only in private moments — carries a different charge than the outer kimono that is the public face of Japanese women's dress. The undergarment implies undressing, the transition between the public and the private self, a moment that Yumeji treated with his characteristic mixture of lyricism and discretion.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
(long undergarment) was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
(long undergarment) depicts bijin-ga and interiors.
