Ukiyo-e Embroidered Cap - 浮世絵 Square cushion geometric composition

geometric composition

drifting fall of rain

striking line

built with a paper canopy stretched over slender bamboo ribs that fan out from a red-painted central hub

This umbrella makes its statement in color

Ukiyo-e Embroidered Cap - 浮世絵 Square cushion geometric compositionThe ukiyo e cap wearing woodblock art in stitched thread Ukiyo e pictures of the floating world captured Edo era Japan in woodblock prints: kabuki actors, courtesans, landscapes and waves, mass produced for ordinary people and later worshipped by Western artists. It's the visual language that defined how the world pictures old Japan. This cap takes a ukiyo e motif and renders it in embroidery on the front, the woodblock line and color rebuilt in