
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.






