Keika hyakugiku Pl.19 by Keika Hosegawa
Plate 19 depicts a spoon-form chrysanthemum — an unusual cultivar in which tubular ray petals flare at their tips into small, spoon-shaped paddles. The effect, rendered in fine woodblock line, is at once precise and fanciful. Hosegawa places two blooms in a loose diagonal, the larger flower fully open and face-on, its companion angled to reveal the bloom's profile and the distinctive tip form more clearly. The palette is cool and light: chalk-white petals with soft green shadows, set against the series' characteristic neutral ground. The plate documents a cultivar that speaks to the extraordinary diversity Meiji chrysanthemum breeders had achieved by 1893.
The spoon-tipped petals and fine linear detail of this cultivar read beautifully on canvas. Our Berlin studio produces this canvas print with archival pigments that preserve the cool, luminous palette, while the woven surface adds warmth and tactile character to what is otherwise an exceptionally delicate composition.
Plate 19 depicts a spoon-form chrysanthemum — an unusual cultivar in which tubular ray petals flare at their tips into small, spoon-shaped paddles. The effect, rendered in fine woodblock line, is at once precise and fanciful. Hosegawa places two blooms in a loose diagonal, the larger flower fully open and face-on, its companion angled to reveal the bloom's profile and the distinctive tip form more clearly. The palette is cool and light: chalk-white petals with soft green shadows, set against the series' characteristic neutral ground. The plate documents a cultivar that speaks to the extraordinary diversity Meiji chrysanthemum breeders had achieved by 1893.
The spoon-tipped petals and fine linear detail of this cultivar read beautifully on canvas. Our Berlin studio produces this canvas print with archival pigments that preserve the cool, luminous palette, while the woven surface adds warmth and tactile character to what is otherwise an exceptionally delicate composition.
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Plate 19 depicts a spoon-form chrysanthemum — an unusual cultivar in which tubular ray petals flare at their tips into small, spoon-shaped paddles. The effect, rendered in fine woodblock line, is at once precise and fanciful. Hosegawa places two blooms in a loose diagonal, the larger flower fully open and face-on, its companion angled to reveal the bloom's profile and the distinctive tip form more clearly. The palette is cool and light: chalk-white petals with soft green shadows, set against the series' characteristic neutral ground. The plate documents a cultivar that speaks to the extraordinary diversity Meiji chrysanthemum breeders had achieved by 1893.
The spoon-tipped petals and fine linear detail of this cultivar read beautifully on canvas. Our Berlin studio produces this canvas print with archival pigments that preserve the cool, luminous palette, while the woven surface adds warmth and tactile character to what is otherwise an exceptionally delicate composition.
