Artist
Komatsuken Shoshoken
Komatsuken Shoshoken is a Baroque artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Komatsuken Shoshoken made crisp, small woodblock prints in the 1820s Edo period, inking everyday scenes and figures onto paper no bigger than a postcard. One untitled print shows a cat stretched across a wooden veranda, its fur a single flat block of black against pale shoji shadows. Another captures a traveler’s straw hat hanging from a nail—just a quick flash of shape and tone, nothing extra. Tap the Edo woodblock prints to browse more.
Works by Komatsuken Shoshoken
Collections represented
Museum
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