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Dancing at the New Carlton Café in Shanghai
Yamamura Kōka (Toyonari); Publisher: Yamamura Kōka Hanga KankōkaiLinkedCulture matchlcp-73cb9c564b99
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper with mica
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 119392
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
In 1924 Kōka created a set of ten prints that includes images of beautiful women, landscapes, and bird-and-flower pictures. Part of the set is an unusual interior view of a modern dance hall in booming, bustling Shanghai. Dancing at the New Carlton Café in Shanghai (Odori Shanhai Nyū Karuton shoken) features thoroughly modern women in Western gowns and bobbed hairstyles. An anomaly not only in Kōka’s oeuvre but for the entire shin hanga movement, the image reflects the shifting interests and chic fashions of ‘The Roaring Twenties’ in East Asia. The print is actually an improved version of the same subject as featured in a painting he created earlier that year. Japan
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- Credit line
- Gift of funds from Ellen Wells
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