![Music in Spring (Shunfu [Haru no fu]), Shôwa period, mid 20th century by Takumi Shinagawa — Japanese Woodblock print](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/harvard/images/HUAM-CARP06220.jpg)
Music in Spring (Shunfu [Haru no fu]), Shôwa period, mid 20th century
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
$400–$3,000. Common prints: $400–$1,000. Key value factors: Shinagawa's long career (he lived to 101) produced a substantial body of work. Quality abstract prints are most collected.
This woodblock print from the mid-twentieth century Showa period merges two sensory experiences: the sound of music and the visual quality of spring. The Japanese subtitle, Shunfu (Haru no fu), connects the work to the classical association between spring and artistic inspiration. Shinagawa renders the intersection of music and season through forms that suggest both flowering natural growth and the invisible vibrations of sound moving through air. The sosaku-hanga tradition valued the synthesis of different sensory and intellectual experiences within a single print, and this subject gives Shinagawa a framework for exploring synesthetic connections between hearing and seeing. The spring setting implies warmth, renewal, and the particular quality of soft light that accompanies cherry blossom season in Japan, all of which may inform the print's color palette.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Music in Spring (Shunfu [Haru no fu]), Shôwa period, mid 20th century was created by Takumi Shinagawa (品川工).
Music in Spring (Shunfu [Haru no fu]), Shôwa period, mid 20th century depicts music and spring.
