“Beans for Tossing During Setsubun Exorcism Ceremony,” from the series Ise Calendars for the Asakusa Group (Asakusa-gawa Ise goyomi)From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 2
In a quiet flicker of ritual, “Beans for Tossing During Setsubun Exorcism Ceremony” transforms quotidian gesture into symbolic act. Kubo Shunman weaves line and color into an image pregnant with intimate ceremony—hands suspended between offering and release, beans as small oracles cast against shadow and air.
Every contour holds a whisper: the fold of kimono motionless before toss, the care in each finger, the space between figure and world. The composition refracts time: past festival, present memory, future echo. This is no mere print of tradition, but a meditation on the liminal moment when the old is expelled and renewal beckons.
Rendered in refined surimono technique, this museum-quality digital canvas print invites the collector to hold on their wall an echo of Edo’s spiritual rhythm—a quiet portal through which gesture becomes meaning, and time becomes silence given shape.
Gatekeepers.la: Because beauty belongs to those who see the ritual in the everyday.
