Beauty with Rose

Data

Beauty with Rose
Print   (Part of the set: Group of kuchi-e prints)

Suzuki Kason
Hakubunkan?
1890-1910?

00038-028
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00038-028

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

A woman enjoys the scent of a rose in the front panel of this kuchi-e believed to be designed by Kason. Kason designed a group of prints similar to this one in layout - each one featuring a peaceful scene of a beautiful woman in the foreground and a harrowing scene of the Sino-Japanese war in the background. The background insert in this particular print does not seem to be war-related, but rather is reminiscent of a hunting scene, with silhouettes of distant animals rushing over the hills towards the man, who holds a gun, and his dog.

Delicate nunome-zuri (a technique in which fabric is glued to a woodblock and blind-embossed to replicate the pattern on the print) has been used on the white space behind the woman. We are currently uncertain about which publication this print was issued in, although it seems likely that it appeared in a volume of the Bungei Kurabu literary magazine.

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