Woman of Ôshima Island (Shima no onna), from the series Twelve New Figures of Beauties (Shin bijin jûni sugata)

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Woman of Ôshima Island (Shima no onna), from the series Twelve New Figures of Beauties (Shin bijin jûni sugata)

新美人十二姿　島の女

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

Japanese

Taishô era

1922 (Taishô 11), October 3

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Height x width: 42.7 × 25.8 cm (16 13/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund

Accession Number38.715

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ode to the Countryside (Amsterdam, Nihon no hanga exh. cat. 4, 2010), fig. 8; Chiba Mus., Nihon no hanga III (2001), #2-6; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 34; Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), pl. 119

DescriptionEdition: 165/200

Signed Shinsui ga (in block)
深水画

Marks Artist's seal: itô

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