Hyakunen no Hana series (Flowers of a Hundred Years)
Medium: Woodblock
Date: 2023
Print size: day oban tate-e - 47 x 33 cm / 18.5 x 13 inches.
Image size: 17.5 x 11.5 in.
Inscription: The series title Hyakunen no Hana and print title Senkyuhyaku Kyujunen no Baburu Jidai in karazuri ('blind-printing') on the upper left margin, signed in kanj, Bin-ni at lower right followed by the red artist's seal, BINNIE, numbered and signed in pencil on the bottom margin.
Description: The Bubble Era in Japan saw vast fortunes being made on property speculation and an economy on overdrive. The setting for this print is in a nightclub, perhaps the infamous Juliana’s Tokyo, where overpriced drinks were downed by expense-account execs. The young lady has the highly fashionable ‘chapatsu’ or brown dyed hair of that time, a red satin dress with silver embroidery and gold jewelery, and the de rigueur accessory, a feather fan, to dance with. Like all the prints in this series, there is silver and bronze metallic pigment, deep embossing and 23 carat gold leaf employed on this piece, as well as 37 colors printed, including overprinting the deep black of the background three times to give a velvety depth.rent in this regard, some showing the resist strongly, others showing the shading more.
