Woman and Blossoms
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
A woman and blossoms — the combination is among the most fundamental in Yumeji's visual vocabulary, the seasonal flowers providing a visual analogy for the female beauty that is his primary subject. Blossoms in Japanese aesthetic tradition are always beautiful and always about to fall, and the Yumeji woman who appears among them shares that quality: her beauty is peak and threshold simultaneously, most fully itself at the moment of its greatest vulnerability to time. The combination distills the Taisho Roman aesthetic to its essential image.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Woman and Blossoms was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Woman and Blossoms depicts cherry blossoms, spring, and bijin-ga.