Kotondo is best known for bijin-ga, but his complete oeuvre includes actor prints and other figure subjects. His small corpus of only 21 designs ensures that all authenticated period impressions carry collector interest and scarcity premiums.
A young woman dances as the Fuji Musume — the Wisteria Maiden — a celebrated role in Nihon Buyo classical dance that later became a standard kabuki dance piece. The dancer carries a wisteria branch heavy with purple blooms, her costume trailing in the choreographed sorrow of a maiden pining for a beloved who does not return. Kotondo, heir to the Torii school's deep theatrical tradition, renders the iconic dance role with the authority of an artist for whom kabuki imagery was ancestral knowledge.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fuji Musume- Wisteria Girl was created by Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人) in Not set.
Fuji Musume- Wisteria Girl was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Not set).
Fuji Musume- Wisteria Girl depicts birds & flowers, landscapes, and mount fuji, set at Mount Fuji.
