Japanese Print "Lamp and Incense Burner" by Tomioka Eisen
Artist:Tomioka Eisen
Title:Lamp and Incense Burner
Date:1901.
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Source:artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
"Tsuma no Kokoro" ("Mind of a Wife"). Frontispiece illustration from the popular literary magazine, Bungei Kurabu, Vol.7, No.3, which was aimed at largely female readers in Meiji - Taisho era. Eisen TOMIOKA was a very popular illustrator. It was said that the magazines with kuchi-e by Eisen were sold much better than the ones without Eisen's kuchi-e.
