Bijin jūni kagetsu ((Beauties in the twelve months): number 1 - hagonda (shuttlecock) January

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Bijin jūni kagetsu ((Beauties in the twelve months): number 1 - hagonda (shuttlecock) January

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Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914) was a specialist in kuchi-e (literally: ‘mouth piece’ frontispiece prints) which heralded a new "discourse on the social construction of girlhood" and womanhood in its focus on sentimental Western notions of romantic love in Japan. He worked in a neo-traditional ukiyo-e mode, evocative of the past but making obvious to anyone that his prints were from the turn of the century. In compositions reminiscent of earlier Yamato-e ‘Japanese-picture’ genre scenes, Shuntei ...

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Date created

1898

Creator

Miyagawa Shuntei

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1528963

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Women / children / Kimonos / Landscapes (Representations) / Plum trees / Japan (Nihon) / Japanese / paper / ink / colour woodcuts / works on paper / woodcut / Meiji / Calendars / Tokyo

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