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Weaver by Wada Sanzo — Japanese Color woodblock print, c. 1940

Weaver

機織り

by Wada Sanzo

Date:
c. 1940
Medium:
Color woodblock print

Description

Two women sit at wooden looms in an interior lit by a paper-screened window, one wearing a dark kimono with red-patterned obi and a pale headscarf, the other in blue-gray with an infant strapped to her back. Around them are a spinning wheel, a woven basket of thread, a skein-winder, and scattered red sandals on the tan floor, rendered in muted grays, browns, and rust-red with loose black outlines. Wada Sanzo, "Weaver," 1940, color woodblock print.

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Weaver (機織り) was created by Wada Sanzo (和田三造) in c. 1940.

Weaver depicts craftspeople.