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初化粧
First Make-up of the Year (Hatsu-geshô)
初化粧
Japanese
Shôwa era
1935 (Shôwa 10), January
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
51. x 36.6 cm (20 1/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group
Accession Number35.1853
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
The Kansai View (Amsterdam, Nihon no hanga exh. cat. 9, 2013), fig. 28; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 234; Smith, Modern Japanese Prints (1994), pl. 57; Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), pl. 141
DescriptionEdition: 87/250
This impression lacks the inscriptions in the margins.
This impression lacks the inscriptions in the margins.
Signed
Inshô (in block)
印象
印象
Marks
Artist's seal: Inshô
ProvenanceBy 1935, Mrs. Wilmot R. Evans, Boston; 1935, sold by Mrs. Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 5, 1935)