$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.
Ranto — "蘭燈," the orchid lamp — combines in a single title two of the most charged symbols in Yumeji's aesthetic world: the orchid (associated with refinement, rarity, and feminine beauty) and the lamp (associated with warmth, with the private hour of evening, and with the act of illuminating the otherwise dark). The orchid lamp as image suggests a source of beauty that is also a source of light — fragile, fragrant, burning — which is as precise a description of the Yumeji bijin as any prose could manage.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ranto — 蘭燈 was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Ranto — 蘭燈 depicts bijin-ga, still life, and night scenes.
