國芳 Woman & Horse Kuniyoshi Fine Art Postcard

歌川国芳「近江の国の勇婦於兼」(太田記念美術館蔵)  National Heroine of Omi, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1830. This ukiyoe shows a woman apparently taming a wild horse.The woman on the left depicts the beauty of traditional Chinese and Japanese painting techniques, the horse on the right the solid sense of realistic shading found in Western art. Kuniyoshi collected Western etchings to study perspective and shading.  Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1797 - April 14, 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting and belonged to the Utagawa school. Vintage retro cute cool colorful artistic beautiful elegant unique original creative Japanese and Asian landscape figure and animal nature pattern fine art for modern fashion decor.