Title : Beauty and puppies

Artist : Tomioka Eisen

Date : 1904.

Details : Tomioka Eisen: Beauty and puppies - Artelino

Source : artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description : A kuchi-e (book illustration) for a novel published on a Bungei-Kurabu, vol.10, no.4, a very popular literary magazine. A morning after a big snow. The girl looking at the puppies is depicted in a circle which signals there is a distance in the two locations. This composition is called, "double contraction" and is often used in ukiyo-e. The picture was listed in the interesting article about kuchi-e published in "Daruma Magazine" Issue no. 32.

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