Print for Friday Eve

Famous Beauty
Kaigetsudo Anchi
c. 1714
woodblock print

















I am newly enamored of so-called "Floating World" images. Isn't it funny that this one is titled Famous Beauty, but is clearly all about the Kimono? Her face, as it goes with Geishas, is one of a style, not a rare object. Her costume, however, is just that, a rare, artisinal, complex, abstractable, stunning object.