Woman with Rice Straw Hat
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This piece was a handmade one-of-a-kind work. It cannot be reordered and will never exist in this form again. The page stays online as part of our archive.
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Details about the sold piece
- Height 197 cm
- Width 58 cm
- Item Type Kakemono
- Jikusaki Bone
- Material Honshi Silk
- Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
- Technique Hand-Painted
- Unique Work Yes
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Description
Beneath a wide, green woven rice straw hat with striking red ribbons, a young woman gazes thoughtfully to the side. Her dark cloak bears large white characters that suggest a festive or artistic disguise, while a red neckband and the elegant drapery of the robe lend the depiction a theatrical, almost narrative quality.
The hand-painting was created on fine silk and dates from the Shôwa period; the clear contours and the bold, flat coloring recall the decorative pictorial language of the bijin-ga tradition, which frequently depicts women in special attire or roles, thus departing from the familiar type of woman in a simple kimono.
With its unusual, narratively charged pictorial composition, this kakemono stands out from classical portrait depictions and is well suited as a striking eye-catcher in the tokonoma or in a Japanese-inspired living space. For collectors of Japanese depictions of women with a distinctive motif, this hand-painted unique work is an appealing find.
