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手拭の女
Woman with a Towel (Portrait of Hisae)
手拭の女
Hashiguchi Goyô (Japanese, 1881–1921)
Japanese
Taishô era
1920 (Taishô 9), October
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
45 x 29.3 cm (17 11/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith's Group
Accession Number39.283
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #28; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 19; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #45 (red kimono); Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), fig. 99
DescriptionMFA impressions: 39.283 (color print), 50.869 (key block), 50.870 (key block with color added by hand)
Signed
Goyô ga (in block)
五葉画
五葉画
Marks
No artist's seal
ProvenanceBy 1939, Yamanaka and Company, New York; 1939, sold by Yamanaka to the MFA for $100. (Accession Date: February 9, 1939)