The Shadow (影遊び)

Designer: Ando Hiroshige | Carver: David Bull | Printer: Atsushi Kawai

Paper size: 15cm by 11cm | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [HC] ? | Currency: $ / £ /

Price: $ 40.00£ 32.25€ 36.75

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Description: At first glance, this seems to be perhaps not the most interesting among the hundreds of woodblock prints we have produced over the years. What exactly, are we looking at? A Japanese paper screen, with a shadow ... ??

Well yes ... but ... let's look closer!

Here is the print, on its mounting board.

When we look a bit closer, we see that there is something hidden ...

Aha! The paper is actually printed on both sides - one side with the shoji screen motif, the other side showing how the man made the shadow - and then folded in the middle. Fun and games back in the Edo era!

Two prints for the price of one! :-)

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