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Charachteristics of the Japanese Figurative Wood Block Print
Look for the full range of formal features found on Japanese prints.
- Signature: in red cartouche in lower left corner.
- Series title: top right.
- Top middle/left: allusive cartouche.
- Bottom left-hand corner: elongated small black and white cartouche, the name of the publisher.
- Bottom left-hand corner: a round and slightly oval seal: a censorship-seal reading aratame, and a date seal, consisting of an abbreviated form of zodiacal sign and below it a numeral indicating thh.
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In lozenge-shaped cartouche: an iroha syllable, a system for numbering
the prints within the series.
The presence of all these elements is characteristic of the mid-nineteenth century.
On earlier prints one will encounter only two or three of these formal features.
Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)
“Girl Leaving a Sake Party”
Value Development & Gestural Line in Figure Drawing
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