Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Courtesan beside a Lamp

Size: 29.0cm by 20.5cm (11.42 in by 8.07 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Komai Yoshinobu

Era: Taisho | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 8,000$ 65.00£ 49.25€ 57.25 [Item has been sold]

Description: Part of a monthly subscription series of three woodblock prints issued by the Yamato Hanga Kanko-kai in ca. 1924.

Dressed in her night clothes, a courtesan stops reading her books for a moment to read a letter by the light of a lantern - perhaps it has just arrived in the middle of the night. This appears to be a print by the little-known ukiyo-e artist Komai Yoshinobu, although some institutions have suggested artists such as Yamamoto Yoshinobu and Suzuki Harunobu.

There is some beautiful and extremely detailed karazuri blind-embossing done in the style of nunome-zuri (a technique in which a piece of actual cloth is "printed" using a woodblock) on the courtesan's kimono, a highlight of the print.

There are traces of glue removal on the back of this print.

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