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Buddhas Hand and navel orange by Yamamura Toyonari — Japanese Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

Buddhas Hand and navel orange

by Yamamura Toyonari

Medium:
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Image courtesy of
Saru Gallery

Description

A teal-green bowl holds several round orange navel oranges alongside the yellow, finger-like lobes of a Buddha's Hand citron, set on a red tabletop patterned with white zigzag streaks; a pale blue-grey background bears a faint stenciled leaf motif, with the artist's signature and seal in the upper right. The forms are rendered in flat, bold color fields outlined in black with fine white highlight lines, giving the fruit a graphic, sculptural quality against the muted backdrop. This mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print) by Yamamura Toyonari depicts the still life in a restrained palette of orange, yellow, teal, and deep red.

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Buddhas Hand and navel orange was created by Yamamura Toyonari (山村豊成).