Young Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led Away

Tomioka Eisen Japanese

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Eisen's print displays the rather melodramatic sentiment as an illustration for a novel is typical of late Meiji print. A woman watches the silhouettes of her lover being led away by the police man. The silhouettes without background motifs suggest a unreachable place from the woman in the reality.

Young Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led Away, Tomioka Eisen (Japanese, 1864–1905), Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Japan

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