Fierce Looking Woman with Fierce Looking Dog, 1890s Photograph japanese shunga print the dry surface is wonderfully

the dry surface is wonderfully warm with age

and as a huge fan of MIT press

who turned out to be a bird and held her captive

with a very otherworldly sort of glow to the image

with the bendy white-painted neck just hanging down and making a great line--but if stuck into something

Fierce Looking Woman with Fierce Looking Dog, 1890s Photograph japanese shunga print the dry surface is wonderfullyWhat a pair these two. She looks to me as if in complete control of her realm, and with a hundred plots in motion (I keep thinking of the matriarch on Peaky Blinders!), and this dog her loyal and fiercely protective companion, charged with keeping enemies at bay. A really terrific photo I think, down to the blur of the dogs face, lending an added ferocity to that gaze and bared teeth! With that studded collar just perfect. 5" x 4" and in excellent