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Onna Kasen. Artist’s book

Onna Kasen. An artist’s book with texts by the best Japanese poetesses from the 7th to 14th centuries (Japan), 19th century. Photo by Quico / CDMT. Documentation Center and Textile Museum. Terrassa.

 

Onna Kasen. An artist’s book with texts by the best Japanese poetesses from the 7th to 14th centuries (Japan), 19th century. Photo by Quico / CDMT. Documentation Center and Textile Museum. Terrassa.

 

This is an artist’s book with an accordion fold spine containing 36 poems written in kanji characters. Each poem is accompanied by a lamina depicting a female figure in relief and dressed in an elegant junihitoe-type kimono. The book is titled “Onna Kasen” and is an anthology of the best poems written by two of the best-known Japanese poetesses from the Heian and Kamakura periods.

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