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Beauty and Rooster

Size: 28.5cm by 19.5cm (11.22 in by 7.68 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [M] ?

Designer: Okumura Masanobu

Era: Taisho | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 8,000$ 60.00£ 46.25€ 55.50 [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.

The woman appears to have just come out of her bath and encountered two chickens.

The artist, Okumura Masanobu (1686–1764), was not only an ukiyo-e artist but also a publisher and poet.

The poem, presumably created by the same artist, is read as Ase ni naru Tori ni Rinki no Fūfu-zure (汗になる 鳥に悋気の夫婦徒), which can be paraphrased as, "I perspire from jealousy upon seeing the chicken couple."

The original print was a benizuri-e (early Japanese woodblock print generally with two printed colours, pink (beni) and green, but also yellow, indigo and brown), but this reproduction is made as a Nishiki-e using multiple color blocks.

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