Takehisa Yumeji - Takehisa Yumeji was a leading artist and illustrator in Japan during the Taisho era. His romantic portraits of contemporary young women were extremely popular, and he designed many woodblock prints for newspapers, women's magazines, and book covers. His slender, languid women are drawn with expressive line work, and sometimes have a naive, almost childlike quality. Yumeji's work found an enthusiastic following in Japan, and today, there is a museum devoted to him in Okayama, his birthplace. While there was little foreign interest in his work prior to his death in 1934, in subsequent decades Yumeji's prints have become very popular and highly sought after by collectors. 

Comments - Lovely portrait of a seated beauty holding a fan demurely in her lap. She looks directly at the viewer, her black eyes large and luminous and her lips shaded a soft pink. Her hair is arranged with a delicate floral ornament, and she wears a beautiful pink kimono covered with blossoms and leaves, tied with a striking black obi. A bridge crosses the river in the background, the buildings on the opposite shore silhouetted along the horizon. A charming modern design with an attractive color palette and soft shading, with embossing in the white design on the obi. This is a posthumous woodblock based on one of Yumeji's paintings.

Artist - Takehisa Yumeji (1884 - 1934)

Image Size - 10 3/4" x 9 3/8" + margins as shown

Condition - This print with nice color and detail as shown. Please see photos for details.