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Woman in kimono, Japanese print titled 真美人 – Antique Print

Woman in kimono, Japanese print titled 真美人 — historic print
Woman in kimono, Japanese print titled 真美人. 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.)

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A window into the past: Woman in kimono, Japanese print titled 真美人, 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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Woman in kimono, Japanese print titled 真美人

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The inscribed title, 真美人, reads roughly as "true beauty," a phrase that announces the print's purpose as much as its subject. It belongs to the bijinga tradition, prints of elegant women in patterned kimono that were popular in Japan from the Edo period into the Meiji era. Such images were often sold as fashion guides and collectibles, and they show how artists recorded hairstyles, textiles, and poses that defined a fashionable look. Notice the careful linework and the way the kimono's pattern is arranged across the figure, since these details were where the printmaker's skill was most visible.

Original scan3,802 × 4,699 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
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