Red and White Plum Trees Sumi-E Painting

This is an original hand painted authentic Japanese Sumi-E painting. Sumi-E painting is a Japanese traditional painting using Sumi ink and Gansai or Chinese paints on traditional papers. The subject is a Red & White Plum tree. Plum 梅 is one of the plant of 松竹梅, Shoh-Chiku-Bai, the three good luck plants, pine tree, bamboo, and plum. -Detail of the painting- Title: 『紅梅白梅』(KOHBAI HAKUBAI “Red and White Plum Tree“), Original Sumi-E painting The word on the upper right corner: 梅 (Plum) The artist signature on the lower left corner with her seal stamp. Size: Overall (with backing paper) : about 16" (40.6cm) x 29” (73.6cm) Materials used: Sumi ink, Chinese paints, Unryu paper (Dragon Cloud Mulberry paper), Okawara washi paper, seal paste, glue Artist Name: Yoko Collin 小鈴 Without frame　(the painting doesn't come with the frame) *Framing with a Mat board is recommended. The artist created the beautiful painting with Sumi-E technique on a handmade Unryu (Dragon Cloud) Washi paper with freshly made Sumi ink and Chinese paints, and finished the painting with Urauchi technique, a wet paper mounting technique. Unryu (Dragon Cloud) Washi paper is a mulberry paper with visible paper fibers. The painting is stretched with Urauchi technique (a wet paper mounting technique) and it's ready to be displayed in a frame. *About Urauchi {pronounce like "Wu-ra-wu-chi"}Techinque: Asisn calligraphies or Sumi-E paintings that are painted on any rice papers, like Washi or Xuan papers, usually appears with wrinkles or waves when it is dried. Because of the wrinkles or waves on the paper, it can NOT to be framed without this Urauchi technique. Most of Japanese Calligraphies and Sumi-E paintings are stretched using with this technique. )