{"product_id":"hiroshige-blossom-fans-earrings","title":"Hiroshige Blossom Fan Earrings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige — one of hundreds, but you'd know this one if you saw it — where cherry blossoms scatter across an evening sky above the Sumida River, and the whole scene feels less like a landscape and more like a breath held just before letting go. Hiroshige didn't paint nature the way Western artists did, as something to be studied or conquered. He painted it as something you were already inside of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiroshige was the last great master of the ukiyo-e tradition, the \"floating world\" prints that shaped everything from Impressionism to Art Nouveau to the way we still think about pattern and negative space today. When Monet first saw Hiroshige's work, he covered the walls of his dining room with it. Van Gogh copied them by hand, trying to understand how so much feeling could live inside such economy of line. The fan shape itself carries its own lineage — in Edo-period Japan, it was a symbol of expanding fortune, an object that opened outward like possibility itself. Hiroshige returned to it again and again, framing his blossoms and landscapes within its gentle arc as though the shape were a window into a softer world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat arc is what catches your eye here — and then the blossoms hold it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese earrings are cut from lightweight brass with a silver-plated finish that gives them a cool, moonlit quality against the warm tones of the printed design. The giclée process — the same fine-art reproduction method used by museums — preserves the delicacy of Hiroshige's original linework with startling fidelity. At 2 inches from the top of the ear wire to the base of the fan and just 2 grams per pair, they have almost no weight at all, which means they move the way blossoms move — lightly, quietly, without effort. The ear wires are hypoallergenic and nickel-free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade in the USA by David Howell \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Howell and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43595962351663,"sku":"028-E-10019","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/026DA2A8-B5A6-4196-9853-946084D48AE1.jpg?v=1740533709","url":"https:\/\/haroldandhazel.live\/products\/hiroshige-blossom-fans-earrings","provider":"Harold \u0026 Hazel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}