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Monday, 28 March 2005
Sosaku Hanga: The Call of The Cuckoo
Artist: Takane
Format: Oban tate-e: 15.75" x 10.5"
Subject: The half-length portrait of a bijin against a paper lantern adjusting her hair-pin and hearing the distant call of a Cuckoo. The portable paper framed lanterns are called andon. They are noted for the elegance and simplicity of their angular design. The wood framed light chamber conceals an oil dish. The paper diffuses the light created within to soften the harshness of the bare flame. It is believed that the advent of the shoji (papered covered sliding doors) in Japanese interiors was an epochal event in the development of Japanese lighting.
Publisher: Daireisha
Date: c. 1950
Condition: Very slightly trimmed. Some light creases. Minor soils, edge damages, marks and flaws. Generally good state.
Colour: Fine colors.
Impression: Very Fine. Splendidly executed bokashi (gradation of colors) shading to lantern, face/hand, kimono's colors, and background; extensive gauffrage to kimono's brown area; some "burnishing" to lower hair area; highly detailed carving of individual hair
Estimated Value: ｣300 - ｣4
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