Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 106459

Beauty and Cherry Blossoms

Artist / 作者: Takeuchi Keishu武内桂舟
Date / 年代: 1913
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Taisho / robynbuntin
Digital record / 画像記録: 381 × 504 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Robyn Buntin of Honolulu
Published by / 公開者: 朱雀ハル
Rights / 権利: No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記: Robyn Buntin of Honolulu

Catalog note / 解説

Kuchi-e were woodblock prints used as foldout frontispieces for novels or inserts into magazines from around 1895 to 1915. They were meant as a visual aid and as a sales promotion at the same time. In competition with Western lithographic or photo-mechanical printing techniques modern to the times, kuchi-e were usually well executed, sometimes in deluxe printing with such lavish techniques as mica or embossing. The main subjects were bijin-ga or beautiful women, often in a Western style presaging the Taisho modern women.

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