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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | Love Letter — 逢状 |
| Series: | Ten Female Subjects — 女十題 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1921 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Watercolour |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Notes (first edition)?: |
| The pronunciation of the title "逢状" (a love letter, or "aijyo") is a play on the word "愛情" having the same pronunciation meaning love; affection. |
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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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