Geishas Boxed Note Cards

This stunning boxed set contains twenty 5" x 7" blank note cards (plus enveloped) comprised of five cardseach of four images. It is an elegant presentation of the genre of “bijinga” (prints of beautiful women) that evolved in early twentieth century Japan. Bijinga prints depicted everyday women; waitresses, geishas and courtesans, rather than the more formal representations created for the aristocracy and royalty. Bijinga prints celebrate the Japanese ideals of beauty and femininity and uniquely capture this time in history. These bijinga beauties have been carefully assembled from the Zentner Collection which has been dealing in Asian antiques for more than twenty-five years.