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White Heron (Momoyogusa)
A white heron built from flat, bordered planes — design thinking a century early.
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Kamisaka Sekka — White Heron
Kamisaka Sekka — White Heron
A heron at night, in four flat colours — modern a century before modern.
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A heron at night, in four flat colours — modern a century before modern.
About the print
From Momoyogusa ("Flowers of a Hundred Worlds"), Kamisaka Sekka's woodblock masterpiece of the Rimpa revival. Sekka built his images from flat, bordered planes — a black lattice wing, a slab of night water, a band of reeds, the white bird and its moon. It is design thinking a hundred years early, and it separates into flat screens with no compromise: four spot inks, zero gradients. The taupe shirt is the sky.
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About the artist
Kamisaka Sekka (1866–1942) was the last great master of the Rimpa school and, in many ways, the first modern Japanese designer — he pulled a 300-year tradition into the 20th century with a boldness that still reads as contemporary. Momoyogusa (1909–1910) is his best-known work.
Kamisaka Sekka · Momoyogusa · Shirosagi (White Heron), 1909–10 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1988.23.1.19 · Public domain (CC0)
Care — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.
“I read about the moon in the essay, then a bit later looked again at the art, and I said to myself “there is no moon”… but of course there is!”
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PrintScreen-printed
Fabric100% combed cotton
Weight5.3 oz / 180 gsm · midweight
FitRegular fit, pre-shrunk
ConstructionSide-seamed · shoulder-to-shoulder tape · double-needle hems
BlankAS Colour Staple 5001
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