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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | Maiko in Kyoto |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1924 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Ko-tanzaku
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| Format (this edition): | Ko-tanzaku |
| DB artwork code: | 39904 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Title Maiko in Kyoto
rare - before W.W. II
Artist Yumeji Takehisa 1884-1934
Dated 1924
Publisher Kokusai Joho Sha, Graphic-sha
Medium/Technique Woodblock print
Impression good … (printed before World War II)
Colors excellent … mica lightly sprinkled
Condition very good … the upper margin thin, three diagonal creases on the lower left.
Description "Kyo no Maiko" (Maiko in kyoto). A woodblock print pasted on a page of the novel, "Koi Sandai" by Isamu Yoshii published on the popular women's magazine, "Fujin Gurafu" in 1924. The second photo is the page of old "Fujin Gurafu" which shows this design.
Width Item 7.9 inches = 20.0 cm
Height Item 3.1 inches = 8.0 cm |
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| Artist Bio: |
Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) was a leading figure in the Taisho Romanticism movement that combined Western romanticism with native Japanese styles during the Taisho Period (1912-1926). He was a painter, writer, poet, bookbinder and illustrator whose drawings of women with thin bodies and large eyes filled with melancholy were known as Yumeji Bijin-ga. During the height of his popularity he was called the “modern Utamaro” and the Japanese “Toulouse-Lautrec and Edvard Munch”. His prints epitomized the relationship between popular art and the woodblock.
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