Combing the Hair (Kamisuki)

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Combing the Hair (Kamisuki)

「髪梳き」

Torii Kotondo (Japanese, 1900–1976)
Publisher: Sakai and Kawaguchi (Japanese)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1929 (Shôwa 4), October

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 46.8 x 30.5 cm (18 7/16 x 12 in.)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group

Accession Number35.1880

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #50; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 170; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #96

DescriptionMFA impressions: 35.1880, 49.728

Edition: 16/300.

Signed Kotondo saku (in block)
言人作

Marks Artist's seal: Kotondo

ProvenanceBy 1935, Mrs. Wilmot R. Evans, Boston; 1935, sold by Mrs. Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 5, 1935)