The Courtesan Hanao of Ogi-ya - Utagawa Kuniyoshi Art Print

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Giclée Printing

Spring comes to the Yoshiwara as a delivery. Each year Edo’s licensed quarter planted cherry trees down its main street for a few weeks. Utagawa Kuniyoshi sets one over The Courtesan Hanao of Ogi-ya, and its ivory cherry blossoms float on a dusk of Prussian blue.

Kuniyoshi built his fame on tattooed warriors. Here his knife-sharp line turns to a bijin-ga beauty. She is an oiran on parade, and a dozen kanzashi hairpins spoke out around her paper-pale face. Her obi is knotted in front, the mark of her profession, with frost-pale peonies swelling across its ink-navy ground. Swallows cut through a hem the tint of shallow water.

This is aizuri-e, the indigo-toned craze that swept Edo period print shops in the 1830s. And her name hangs at your shoulder in the brushed Berlin blue. Edo called this imported color bero-ai. A pupil of the Utagawa school, Kuniyoshi drew the Courtesan Hanao of Ogi-ya for block cutters who carved every hair into cherry wood. Sky and sakura drink from the same bowl as her kimono. One imported pigment does all the talking. Vermilion gets a few syllables at her lips and collar.

A kamuro waits at her elbow under a crown of clustered leaves. Hang this Japanese woodblock print and the ukiyo-e parade keeps moving beneath blossoming trees.

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