YUKIHIRA AND THE SALT MAIDENS ON THE BEACH OF SUMA (Yasuda Shodo)

Object: original Japanese woodblock prints
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world

Artist: Yasuda Shodo 安田蕉堂 (ca. 1874-1930), signed Shodo 蕉堂
Print title: Picture of Murasame and Matsukaze in the Old Days そのむかし村雨まつ風の図
Print subject: the salt maiden sisters Murasame 村雨 and Matsukaze 松風 on the beach in Suma 須磨 with the exiled poet Ariwara no Yukihira 在原行平

Publisher: Matsui Eikichi 松井栄吉 (Kakuhakudo 画博堂)

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Year: 1896, 8th month
Condition: fair, slight stains, small holes, some imperfections on the margins, slight fold in the lower right corner of the right panel, backing
Overall dimensions: 69 x 34,5 cm

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