Bijin junikagetsu (Beauties in the twelve months): October

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Bijin junikagetsu (Beauties in the twelve months): October

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

The woodblock prints of Miyagawa Shuntein (1873-1914) are a technical tour de force, enriched with bokashi colour gradations, applications of mica, metallic pigments and shomen-zuri burnishing. Te Papa's collection currently contains three gorgeous triptych designs by Shuntei, each a composition from his 1898 series Bijin junikagetsu (Beautiful Women for the Twelve Months), representing January to February, March and October. Like his near contemporary Mizuno Toshikata - also represented in ...

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Date created

1898

Creator

Miyagawa Shuntei

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1528994

Related subjects

Kimonos / Women / Japanese / paper / ink / colour woodcuts / works on paper / woodcut / Tokyo

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