Takehisa Yumeji - Detail from Hand Printed Japanese Paper # 6

Small square card 105 x 105mm, blank inside and comes with an envelope.

The artist -

Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) was a leading figure in the Taisho Romanticism movement which combined Western romanticism with native Japanese styles during the Taisho Period (1912-1926). He was a painter, writer, poet, bookbinder and illustrator whose drawings of women with thin bodies and large eyes filled with melancholy were known as Yumeji Bijin-ga.’