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| Artist: | Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) — 竹久夢二 |
| Title: | Dutch Lantern - Ranto — 蘭燈 |
| Series: | Yumeji Masterpieces — 夢二名作集 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1939 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Kato Junji |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Kato Junji |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Aiban
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| Format (this edition): | Aiban |
| DB artwork code: | 48043 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Rantō (Dutch Lantern) from the series Yumeji's Masterpieces
Spring Glance from the Magazine The Ladies Graphic
Japanese Color Woodblock Print
Rantō (Dutch Lantern)
from the series Yumeji’s Materpieces
by Takehisa Yumeji, 1938-1939
(after an earlier 1917 design)
About This Print
One of a number of posthumous prints created from Yumeji's illustrations by the Tokyo-based publisher Katō Junji. This design was originally made for the below 1917 cover of the musical score for Matoori Nagayo's Rantō Kōta (Song of the Lantern), published by Senow Ongaku Shuppansha.
Source: Takehisa Yumeji, Nozomi Naoi, et. al., Brill, 2015, p. 15.
"This woodblock print exemplifies Yumeji's lifelong interest in the exotic and foreign, as manifest in the recurring imagery of port cities. Here, a woman dressed in a vivid red kimono with shibari-dyed patterns and floral motifs casually plays a shamisen. A large paper lantern hangs behind here, with a view of the bay in the distance." |
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| Series Information: |
| The majority of Yumeji's woodblock-printed designs were released after his death in 1934. The publisher who was instrumental in having Yumeji's work recognized was the Tokyo-based Katō Junji (1885-1961). During the late 1930s and early 1940s. Katō and his team of artisan block-cutters and printers at the Katō Print Workshop (Katō Print Workshop) (Katō Hanga Kenkyūjo) reused and recalled numerous famous paintings, music scores and watercolours for series of prints and postcards. The thirty woodblock prints in this set are a selection of the most popular cover designs from the over 270 that the artist produced of Seno music scores. Katō Junji personally compiled the set and it reflects what he believed was representative of Yumeji's artistic diversity, ranging from the portrayal of beautiful women and landscapes to this fascination with Western artistic styles. (from The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints). |
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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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