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Beauty and Mountain Landscape

Size: 30.0cm by 19.5cm (11.81 in by 7.68 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Shiba Kokan

Era: Taisho | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 9,000$ 81.00£ 67.00€ 75.50 [Item has been sold]

Description: This print is from the series, "The Nippon Mokuhan Gasui" (Masterpieces of old Japanese colour prints), a collection of reproductions of various themes and designs published around 1924.

This print depicts a young courtesan leaning outside a shoji (traditional Japanese door made of paper), the inside of the house is in the background. She is wearing a blue kimono with white floral patterns that contrasts with a red underdress. There is a black lacquered box at her feet and a big picture behind her. This image shows a landscape with a big mountain in the background and a small house on the flank of a big rock that is on the side.

It is interesting how the palette of the whole elements in the print, except for the woman, is very neutral in order to let the colors of the woman’s clothes stand out.

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