Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 72771

A Beauty Standing in Front of the Tagawaya

Artist / 作者
Keisai Eisen渓斎英泉
Date / 年代
1791
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / jaodb
Digital record / 画像記録
202 × 600 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Japanese Art Open Database
Published by / 公開者
朝倉レン
Rights / 権利
No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記
Japanese Art Open Database

Catalog note / 解説

A Beauty Standing in Front of the Tagawaya, by Keisai Eisen (1791-1848) This stoop shouldered, thick necked woman wearing iridescent greenish lipstick seems somehow abnormal. The women depicted by Eisen share this kind of expression. Effectively creating a tall format by taking two of the normal size sheets for woodblock prints and stacking them on top of each other, this print is an excellent example of Eisen's beauty prints with their vivid colors and restrained expression of his own special virulent quality

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