"Ladies with Umbrellas" Silk Square - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Sale - "Ladies with Umbrellas" Silk Square

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This beautiful silk scarf features a free-flowing arrangement of fashionable Japanese women beneath umbrellas, adapted from the Museum’s collection of woodblock prints from Japan’s Edo period (1615–1868). During this period, under the conservative military class that governed the nation, contact with the outside world was cut off. This self-imposed isolation led to a revival and refinement of past traditions. In the flourishing urban societies of Kyoto and Edo, creativity came not from its leaders but from the two lower classes in the Confucian social hierarchy: artisans and merchants. Although officially denigrated, they were free to reap the economic and social benefits of this prosperous age. The word ukiyo originally expressed the Buddhist idea of the transitory nature of life. This rather pessimistic notion was overturned during the Edo period. The character meaning “to float” was substituted for the homonym meaning “transitory” to express an attitude of joie de vivre. This hedonistic culture that glorified life in the “floating world” was particularly well expressed in the production of woodblock prints. Anyone with a bit of extra cash could acquire captivating images of seductive courtesans, exciting kabuki actors, and famous romantic vistas.

Imported silk twill. 36 in. square.

Original Price $85

"Ladies with Umbrellas" Silk Square
12-059598
Member Price: $38.25 each
Non-Member Price: $42.50 each

Quantity:


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