Chinese Beauty Beside a Plum Tree, leaf from the album “A Contest of Beauties from the Near and Distant Past” (Chūko shomeika bijin kurabe)

After Genki (Komai Ki) Japanese

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This print is a single sheet from the second edition of A Contest of Beauties from the Near and Distant Past, an album of individual leaves published in 1895 by Aoki Kōsaburo in Osaka. A Chinese beauty is shown leaning against the trunk of a plum tree, contemplating a branch with blossoming flowers. Genki was one of the senior disciples of Maruyama Ōkyo, the founder of the Maruyama-Shijō school. His reputation rests upon one his graceful depictions of beautiful Chinese women. The original printed book contained not only artists from Ōkyo’s school such as Ōkyo himself, Genki or Yamaguchi Soken, but also ukiyo-e artists such as Chōbunsai Eishi (1756–1829) or even painters of the traditional Tosa school.

Chinese Beauty Beside a Plum Tree, leaf from the album “A Contest of Beauties from the Near and Distant Past” (Chūko shomeika bijin kurabe), After Genki (Komai Ki) (Japanese, 1747–1797), Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Japan

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