Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Duke and Girl Reading a Letter

Size: 29.5cm by 56.5cm (11.61 in by 22.24 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [XL] ?

Designer: Unknown

Era: Post-war | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 17,000$ 135.00£ 105.00€ 120.00 [Item has been sold]

Description: The original of this image is from a Fan-shaped Booklet of the Lotus Sutra, thought to have been produced in the mid-12th century. The genre of the time is depicted in yamato-e (Japanese painting inspired by Tang dynasty paintings) on fan-shaped paper. The sutra text is written in ink on the paper, and the entire work is gorgeously decorated with gold and silver leaf. It is valuable for understanding genre paintings of the time, which depict aristocratic men and women, the lives of ordinary people, nature, and landscapes. The original can be viewed on the Tokyo National Museum website.

Tanseisha beautifully reproduced the pictures on it probably in the 1970s or 1980s with 60 to over 80 impressions of woodblock prints made by first-class craftsmen of the time: carver, printer, and even foil stamp craftsman ...! This print was printed with 65 impressions depicting a duke and a young girl seated opposite each other at a writing desk, filling the entire frame with their large figures.

There are a few traces of glue removal on the backside.

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