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Print artist: Tomioka Eisen (富岡永洗)

Published by: Kinkodo (金港堂)
Title
artist postcard, print
Description
English: Artist Postcard; lithograph. Young woman having her hair dressed. From a collection of 389 early-20th c. Japanese postcards.
Date between 1900 and 1905
date QS:P571,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 14 centimetres
Width: 9 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
2015,3031.1.10
Notes

The development of picture postcards in Japan after their first authorisation in 1900 was given added impetus by a wave of public patriotism during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. Fine ‘art cards’ (or ‘artist cards’ – as opposed to photographic picture postcards) were created using the traditional high-quality colour woodblock technique, the newer imported technique of colour lithography, marquetry and other techniques. Some cards were designed by well- known graphic artists, some by professional designers of postcards. Styles ranged from traditional Ukiyo-e to Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Many have eye-catching, even radical graphic compositions. Themes reflect a wide range of popular tastes, some inherited from Ukiyo-e, others completely modern: beautiful women, new ‘romantic’ love, satirical/comic scenes, traditional and modern literary themes, topical events such as expositions, and subjects reflecting modernity, such as travel and sports, patriotism and propaganda.

(T. Clark, 6/2015)
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2015-3031-1-10
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