Woodblock book illustration of a kneeling woman in kimono – Vintage Print
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A window into the past: Woodblock book illustration of a kneeling woman in kimono, preserved in this historic print. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Woodblock book illustration of a kneeling woman in kimono
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A kneeling woman in a patterned kimono, her head tilted toward a folded letter or a small object in her hands, is the subject here, rendered in the fine line and flat color of a woodblock illustration rather than a single-sheet print. Pictures like this were cut into blocks for illustrated books and magazines, where printers reproduced the artist's brushwork line by line and sometimes added a second or third color block. Japanese book illustration of this kind flourished in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when publishers produced cheap, widely read volumes of fiction, poetry and travel writing. Look closely at the fabric pattern and the handling of the hair, which show how carvers translated brush strokes into wood.
| Original scan | 3,699 × 4,535 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08684_ |
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