Keika hyakugiku Pl.16 by Keika Hosegawa
Plate 16 presents a pompon chrysanthemum, its bloom a near-perfect sphere of tightly packed, uniformly sized florets. The cultivar's symmetry is so complete it reads as almost abstract — a dense, ordered mass rather than the unruly exuberance of other plates in the 1893 Hyakugiku series. Hosegawa leans into this geometry, composing the plate with a single dominant bloom centered against a graduated ground of pale celadon. The restrained palette — soft rose deepening toward the shadowed heart — gives the image a meditative stillness that sets it apart from the series' more dynamic portraits.
A pompon's rounded geometry finds a natural echo in the gentle relief of a woven canvas surface. This canvas art print, made in our Berlin studio, renders the flower's graduated tonal depth with exceptional warmth, each layer of florets gaining a soft dimensionality that enriches the original woodblock's subtle shading.
Plate 16 presents a pompon chrysanthemum, its bloom a near-perfect sphere of tightly packed, uniformly sized florets. The cultivar's symmetry is so complete it reads as almost abstract — a dense, ordered mass rather than the unruly exuberance of other plates in the 1893 Hyakugiku series. Hosegawa leans into this geometry, composing the plate with a single dominant bloom centered against a graduated ground of pale celadon. The restrained palette — soft rose deepening toward the shadowed heart — gives the image a meditative stillness that sets it apart from the series' more dynamic portraits.
A pompon's rounded geometry finds a natural echo in the gentle relief of a woven canvas surface. This canvas art print, made in our Berlin studio, renders the flower's graduated tonal depth with exceptional warmth, each layer of florets gaining a soft dimensionality that enriches the original woodblock's subtle shading.
Original: $38.84
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$13.59Description
Plate 16 presents a pompon chrysanthemum, its bloom a near-perfect sphere of tightly packed, uniformly sized florets. The cultivar's symmetry is so complete it reads as almost abstract — a dense, ordered mass rather than the unruly exuberance of other plates in the 1893 Hyakugiku series. Hosegawa leans into this geometry, composing the plate with a single dominant bloom centered against a graduated ground of pale celadon. The restrained palette — soft rose deepening toward the shadowed heart — gives the image a meditative stillness that sets it apart from the series' more dynamic portraits.
A pompon's rounded geometry finds a natural echo in the gentle relief of a woven canvas surface. This canvas art print, made in our Berlin studio, renders the flower's graduated tonal depth with exceptional warmth, each layer of florets gaining a soft dimensionality that enriches the original woodblock's subtle shading.
