Timberyard Daughter - 木場の娘
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
Description
The daughter of a timberyard — "木場の娘," a working-class woman from one of Tokyo's waterfront districts where lumber was stored and processed — appears in this composition that situates the Yumeji-style bijin in an unlikely social context. The timberyard daughter brings with her the material reality of manual labor and the commercial world of the river trade, and Yumeji's placement of his characteristic romantic figure in this setting creates a productive tension between his aesthetic of refined melancholy and the robust physicality of the working-class world she comes from.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Timberyard Daughter - 木場の娘 was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Timberyard Daughter - 木場の娘 depicts urban scenes, bijin-ga, and daily life.