Fireworks (Hanabi), from the series Second Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-nishû)

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Fireworks (Hanabi), from the series Second Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-nishû)

現代美人集第二輯　花火

Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)
Publisher: Watanabe Shōzaburō (Japanese)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1932 (Shôwa 7), early summer

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 43 x 27.8 cm (16 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund

Accession Number38.714

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CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 71

Signed Shinsui (in block)
深水

Marks Artist's seal: Shinsui

ProvenanceBy 1938, Yamanaka and Company, Boston; 1938, sold by Yamanaka and Company to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 14, 1938)