Performer in Bugaku-style Costume Art Print
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A costume maker first laid the phoenix across pale silk, and then a Meiji watercolorist bent over the finished photograph with a fine brush and did it again. Performer in Bugaku-style Costume was staged in a studio in the 1880s, when hand-colored albumen silver prints sailed home in the trunks of foreign travelers, a trade historians now call Yokohama shashin.
The work was slow. A master colorist in 1880s Japan could finish two or three pictures in a twelve-hour day, and you can count those hours here. Ochre-gold quills fan along the fold of a lavender-gray sleeve. Teal plumes trail below them. Cream cloud scrolls open around centers of plum and sage green, every edge drawn by a steady wrist.
Her face got almost no paint at all. The colorist left it the cool tone of the albumen, calm beneath that bronze-gilt crest. She looks past the lens toward something offstage. The gagaku flutes and drums are missing, and a plain taupe backdrop fills the space where a palace stage would be. Under all that color, the silver still holds her gaze.
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1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
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1. D-rings (most secure)
Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
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