Japanese album page with pansies and handwritten calligraphy – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic print of Japanese album page with pansies and handwritten calligraphy brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Japanese album page with pansies and handwritten calligraphy
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Pansies share this album leaf with a block of handwritten calligraphy, a combination that marks it as a personal keepsake rather than a published print. Pages like this were often assembled by hand, with painted or pressed flowers set beside brush-written poems or notes, and they circulated among friends and families who valued both the botanical image and the writing. Pansies, introduced to Japan from Europe in the late nineteenth century, were a fashionable novelty in that period, so the flower itself signals a moment of changing tastes. Looking closely at the brushwork and the spacing of the characters can reveal the hand of the writer.
| Original scan | 4,520 × 3,680 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08730_ |
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