{"product_id":"kano-eitoku-chinese-women-in-a-palace-garden-late-16th-century-v1-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","title":"Kano Eitoku - Chinese Women in a Palace Garden - late 16th century v1 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal","description":"\u003ch1\u003eKano Eitoku - Chinese Women in a Palace Garden - late 16th century v1 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA late sixteenth-century painting attributed to Kano Eitoku, this design shows noblewomen at leisure in a palace garden, painted in colour over a gold-leaf ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eVisual Elements \u0026amp; Composition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork is a vertical panel built around a cluster of figures. Five court ladies gather in a lattice-screened garden pavilion, two of them seated at a low table while a standing attendant holds a fan. A flowering blossom tree and rock formations frame the scene on either side. Vermilion red and jade green carry the figures and garments, pale ivory and slate blue-grey organise the architecture, and gold leaf fills the ground behind everything, so the gold reads as the setting itself rather than a backdrop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMeaning \u0026amp; Symbolism\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe scene belongs to kanga, the Chinese-inspired taste that held great influence over Japanese art in the sixteenth century. Painted court women in a walled garden signal status, feminine grace and the idealised life of the aristocracy. Such imagery mattered to the warrior class, who commissioned monumental, elaborate works to align themselves with refined tradition. Eitoku, the leading master of the Kano school, bridged traditional ink painting and the expansive gold-leaf style favoured by the shogunate, and this piece shows how that school turned complex classical themes into the visual language of the Momoyama period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy It Works on a Kiss-Cut Sticker\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA kiss-cut sticker follows its own outline, so the vertical panel becomes a shape in its own right, with the pavilion, the blossom tree and the gold ground all held within one clean edge. Because the image is small and handled close, the details of the court ladies and the lattice screen come forward as you look. Place it on a laptop lid or the cover of a journal, where the gold and the quiet garden scene can be seen up close.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Sticker Space","offers":[{"title":"2 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48523830329562,"sku":"33574166099886155243","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48523830362330,"sku":"14329814658480107365","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48523830395098,"sku":"16512526282998814846","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48523830427866,"sku":"53201623483506801919","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48523830460634,"sku":"71807849402358245037","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48523830493402,"sku":"31177713634598573238","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48523830526170,"sku":"29838339662353209587","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48523830558938,"sku":"29480399984542251544","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/3949\/8646\/files\/kano-eitoku-chinese-women-in-a-palace-garden-late-16th-century-v1-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal-unknown-alt-3.webp?v=1787958343","url":"https:\/\/thestickerspace.com\/products\/kano-eitoku-chinese-women-in-a-palace-garden-late-16th-century-v1-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","provider":"The Sticker Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}