Vintage Japanese Kappazuri Print Yoshitoshi Mori Bijin with Kiseru Smoking Beauty 1984 Ed 31/90 Hardware The Shishi

The Shishi

This is a set of three giclée 6

Diameter = 7" (16cm)

A well-balanced and visually refined example appropriate for tea practice

rendered in the everyday dress of early postwar Japan

Vintage Japanese Kappazuri Print Yoshitoshi Mori Bijin with Kiseru Smoking Beauty 1984 Ed 31/90 Hardware The ShishiYoshitoshi Mori (, 18981992) Bijin with kiseru () kappazuri stencil print, 1984, edition 31 90 A kneeling bijin raises a long kiseru () pipe to her lips, glancing back sharply over her shoulder. In her right hand she holds a blue and white cloth; beyond her knee sits a tabakobon (), the low tobacco tray fitted with ash container and ember pot that was a fixture of fashionable Edo interiors. Her kimono is rendered in Mori's bold flat planes: a dark