Yuruki Nagare Ni
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
"Yuruki Nagare Ni" — "In the Slow Stream" or "To the Slow Current" — is a title that encapsulates the tempo of Yumeji's aesthetic world: the slow drift rather than the vigorous current, the meandering movement of feeling rather than its flood. His figures inhabit slow time — the extended moment of waiting, the prolonged quality of longing, the particular temporal suspension of someone who is feeling something too intensely to move quickly through it. The slow stream is both literal subject and emotional metaphor, the pace of his art and the rhythm of his feeling.
More Prints by Takehisa Yumeji
More Rivers & Lakes Prints
Lake Chuzenji, Nikko (Nikko Chuzenjiko)
Nikko Chuzenjiko
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Gosai Canal in Niigata (Niigata Gosaibori), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)"
Niigata Gosaibori
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
The Hori River at Obama (Obama Horikawa), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, First Series (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Obama Horikawa
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yuruki Nagare Ni was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Yuruki Nagare Ni depicts rivers & lakes and bijin-ga.