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新美人十二姿 虫の音
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The Sounds of Insects (Mushi no ne), from the series Twelve New Figures of Beauties (Shin bijin jûni sugata)
新美人十二姿 虫の音
Japanese
Taishô era
1923 (Taishô 12), June
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 42.7 x 26.1 cm (16 13/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group
Accession Number35.1863
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Brown et al., Fresh Impressions (2013), cat. 18; Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #39; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 42; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #71
DescriptionEdition: 33/200.
Signed
Shinsui ga (in block)
深水画
深水画
ProvenanceBy 1935, Mrs. Wilmot R. Evans, Boston; 1935, sold by Mrs. Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 5, 1935)