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Woman holding a fan in patterned kimono, Japanese print – Vintage Print

Woman holding a fan in patterned kimono, Japanese print — historic print
Woman holding a fan in patterned kimono, Japanese print. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

Woman holding a fan in patterned kimono, Japanese print comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Woman holding a fan in patterned kimono, Japanese print

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A woman in a patterned kimono holds an open fan, a pose that Japanese printmakers returned to again and again in the woodblock tradition. Prints like this one were usually made for a mass market, sold cheaply in the cities of the Edo period, and they often served as fashion plates, showing the newest textile designs and hairstyles to a public eager to follow them. Because the artists worked from carved blocks, the crisp outlines and flat areas of color are as much a part of the image as the figure. The fan itself, a common accessory of the period, gives the composition a graceful diagonal that draws the eye across the sheet.

Original scan3,655 × 4,565 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi
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