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Woman in Cotton Kimono (Yukata), from the series Twelve New Figures of Beauties (Shin bijin juni sugata)


新美人十二姿 浴衣
Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)
Publisher: Watanabe Shōzaburō (Japanese)
Japanese
Taishô era
1922 (Taishô 11), early summer

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 43.4 x 26.5 cm (17 1/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund
Accession Number38.717
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #38; Chiba Mus., Nihon no hanga III (2001), #2-3; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 32; Smith, Modern Japanese Prints (1994), pl. 34; Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), pl. 118
Signed Shinsui (in block)
深水
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)