{"product_id":"takashi-murakami-cherry-blossoms-are-in-full-bloom-poster-kaikai-kiki","title":"Takashi Murakami Cherry Blossoms Are in Full Bloom Poster, Kaikai Kiki, Unused in the Original Carton","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"jp-product\" data-world=\"Contemporary Japanese Art\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-lede\"\u003eCherry Blossoms Are in Full Bloom, an official Kaikai Kiki poster of Takashi Murakami’s great pink cherry tree against a field of gold, unused and kept in its original carton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTakashi Murakami, born in Tokyo in 1962, built the Superflat movement on the flat colour and dense patterning of Japanese painting and animation, and Kaikai Kiki, the studio he founded, publishes his images as posters and prints with the same care it gives his paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis cherry blossom series looks back to the gold-leaf screens of the Momoyama period. Here a single tree swells into a cloud of thousands of smiling pink and white flowers, a few red and pale blue blooms scattered through it, over a ground of gold strewn with falling petals, and small figures from his cast peep out at the foot of the trunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe carton still carries its Kaikai Kiki label with the title in English and Japanese. The poster has never been hung and has been kept indoors at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"jp-details\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Takashi Murakami\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cherry Blossoms Are in Full Bloom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eType:\u003c\/strong\u003e Art poster\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePalette:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pink and white blossom on gold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eState:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unused, never hung\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging:\u003c\/strong\u003e Original Kaikai Kiki carton with title label\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStorage:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kept indoors at home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Near new\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnused and never hung.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept indoors at home; the carton shows light storage handling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition grade \u003cstrong\u003eA (very good)\u003c\/strong\u003e on the Japanese scale; see \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/japanese-condition-ranks-explained\"\u003eJapanese condition ranks, explained\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAuthenticity \u0026amp; Care\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery piece is checked by hand in Tokyo before it leaves us. 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