Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 128511
The Departed Spirit of a Courtesan
- Artist / 作者
- Seien Shima島成園
- Date / 年代
- 1923
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Taisho / jaodb
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 409 × 600 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Published by / 公開者
- 小春ユイ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Japanese Art Open Database
Catalog note / 解説
Japanese Woodblock Print of a Ghost by Shima Seien (1893-1970). This superb image is one one of the most striking images in Japanese 20th. Century woodblock art. In the seminal work "The New Wave. 20th. Century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection" London 1993, the print with accompanying text is accorded a whole page to itself (Pl. 208). We have reproduced the page and suggest viewers read the text. It is truly a remarkable and haunting image of "the departed spirit of a courtesan". The mauve scarf concealing part of the head in the centre of the print is a daring, original and wholly successful device which allows the red-rimmed eyes to peer around the scarf at the viewer.…
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