Catalog record · 目録番号 124623
Snow
雪
Catalog note / 解説
You are bidding on a very rare and large original Japanese woodblock print “Snow” from the Series “Modern Beauties Bijin Ga, Gendai Bijin Fuzoku Gotai” signed by the famous Shin-Hanga artist Shimura Tatsumi (1907-1980). My family has collected Japanese woodblock prints for several decades. Tatsumi was born in Takasaki in Gunma prefecture under the given name of Sentaro in 1907. Shimura Tatsumi was specialized in bijin-ga (woodblock print of beauties), the genre of the depiction of beautiful women. The women in his woodblock prints look very fashionable, trendy, beautiful and cute - with big eyelashes and a sensual lipstick mouths. Shimura Tatsumi was mainly a traditional Japanese painter so…
Image record / 画像情報
OHMI · c. 1980 (this item: First edition) · ohmi
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