Before the Mirror - Koshiro Onchi Art Print
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A sliding door has been left one crack open, and Kōshirō Onchi lets you stand in the gap. Before the Mirror, cut around 1930, splits its sheet between a blank fusuma of cream gofun and a woman caught in glass. She lifts one hand to her lacquer-black chignon. Her reflected face sinks behind her own arm. A single downcast eye keeps the secret.
Vermilion line traces elbow and collarbone like a pulse drawn on paper. The wall glows coral-pink with mica. Wood-grain pattern runs over the gilt frame like collage pasted by a restless hand. On the dresser a blue bottle waits.
This Japanese woodblock print bows to the bijinga beauties of ukiyo-e, then breaks them apart. The body splinters inside glass. Space folds shut. A plum-brown hikite floats on the empty door and rhymes with the cinnabar dot of her breast, a sly game of ma (the pause Japanese design treats as substance) played on here by the father of sōsaku hanga. Self-printed and signed K. Onchi in blind embossing, this Shōwa-era art print leaves the door to your heart ajar.
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