Original Shin-Hanga Taisho Roman Art, 49 Hakone Paintings of 1920s Japan, Frame TV Art

100% original artwork designed in Odawara, Japan. Not a copy or reproduction of old prints.

Original artworks in the style of shin-hanga, the "new prints" of Japan.

Shin-hanga was a Japanese woodblock print movement that began in the Taisho era (1912-1926) and continued into the early Showa era. It kept the traditional teamwork of ukiyo-e (artist, carver and printer) but added Western ideas of light, shadow and perspective, with soft color gradations called bokashi.

The Taisho era is remembered in Japan as the time of "Taisho Roman" (Taisho romance), a short period when Western fashion and city life mixed with Japanese tradition. Young women wore bold meisen silk kimono and arrow-pattern yagasuri, tied big ribbons in their hair and carried lace parasols. Motor cars, mountain railways, Western-style hotels and cafes arrived in resort towns like Hakone.

This set imagines that world in Hakone, near my home in Odawara: Lake Ashi with Mount Fuji, a Western-style mountain hotel with motor cars, the Hakone Tozan mountain railway (opened in 1919), and the hot spring town of Hakone-Yumoto through the seasons, with its geisha, rickshaws, cherry blossoms and snow.

Each painting is mounted like a museum print, with a short English caption below it: the place, the present-day town and prefecture, a line about the place, and a note that it is an imagined Taisho-era scene, not present-day Japan. These are my own compositions, not copies of any existing shin-hanga print, and every painting carries my red seal 泉 (Izumi).

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HIGHLIGHTS
- 49 paintings: Lake Ashi 15, a Western-style hotel in Hakone 17, Hakone-Yumoto 17
- Taisho Roman fashion: yagasuri and meisen kimono, hair ribbons, lace parasols, shawls and boots
- 1920s motor cars, the Hakone Tozan mountain railway, rickshaws and inns
- English caption on every painting: place, present-day town and prefecture, a short note and the era

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WHAT YOU GET
- 49 paintings, each in 3 screen sizes (147 JPG files)
- 16:9 3840 x 2160 (4K) : Samsung The Frame TV, 4K TVs, most monitors
- 16:10 2560 x 1600 : MacBook and many laptops
- 3:2 2880 x 1920 : Microsoft Surface and other 3:2 screens
Nothing is cropped: the 16:10 and 3:2 files show the whole painting with slim plain bands above and below.

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PLEASE NOTE
- These paintings are imaginative artworks, not photographs. The people, places, landscapes and backgrounds are artistic images and do not show any real person or any actual location as it really looks. Kimono, buildings and scenery are artistic interpretations and may not be historically or geographically accurate.
- The rooms, TVs, frames and furniture in the listing photos are mockups for illustration only and are not included.
- Colors may look slightly different depending on your screen.

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HOW IT WORKS
This is a digital download. No physical item will be shipped.
After purchase you will receive a PDF with a Google Drive download link and the password for the ZIP file. The file is about 153 MB, so please download it on a computer.

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HOW TO USE ON SAMSUNG THE FRAME
Open the SmartThings app, go to Art Mode > Add your photos, and choose the images. Set the mat to "No mat" for a full-screen look. You can also use a USB drive.

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ABOUT THE ART
Every painting here is my own original work. They are not copies or reproductions of Hokusai, Hiroshige or any other existing artwork.
These are imaginative paintings, not photographs. Places such as Lake Ashi, Mount Fuji, Miyanoshita and Hakone-Yumoto are painted as I imagine them, so the scenery, buildings, decorations and their positions may differ from the real places.
I live in Odawara, near Hakone, Japan. I designed these paintings with AI image tools, then selected, edited and finished each one by hand.

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LICENSE
For personal use only (your own TV, computer or home prints). Please do not resell, share or redistribute the files, the link or the password.

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RETURNS
Due to the digital nature of this item, returns, refunds, exchanges and cancellations are not accepted. If there is any problem with your files, please message me and I will make it right.

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Also in my shop: Ukiyo-e style Tokaido Road, Kimono Bijin-ga on gold screens, Japanese Winter Geisha, Hakone & Odawara Christmas Geisha and my Christmas Japan landscape series.