Plum Blossoms Over Woven Thatch – Shin Bijutsukai Framed Art Print
This plate comes from *Shin Bijutsukai* (新美術海), the pattern anthology overseen by Furuya Kōrin and issued through Kyoto's Unsōdō press in the early twentieth century. Six-petaled plum blossoms, rendered in white with rust-orange shading and fine radiating stamens, crowd every inch of the frame, set against a chaotic web of black-and-white crosshatched strokes suggesting woven grass or thatched brush. The all-over saturation is what distinguishes this design — there's no breathing room, no negative space, just wall-to-wall blossoms layered atop a restless textured backdrop, giving it a woodblock-print intensity closer to Rinpa-school ume (plum) imagery than a typical decorative repeat. It suits interiors that want a graphic, high-contrast statement: a black-and-white kitchen, a monochrome hallway warmed by a single accent color, or a gallery wall built around bold botanical prints. Finished as a framed print with crisp linework and vivid orange accenting against true blacks, this piece will appeal to collectors drawn to plum blossom (ume) symbolism, dense all-over floral repeats, or the more graphically intense, high-contrast plates within the *Shin Bijutsukai* catalogue.
