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

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

現代美人集第二輯　吹雪

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

Japanese

Shôwa era

1932 (Shôwa 7), December

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 43.2 x 27.7 cm (17 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line John Ware Willard Fund

Accession Number46.1130

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #42; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 73; Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), fig. 107; Smith, The J. Print since 1900 (1983), #38, photo p. 44

DescriptionEdition: 215/250

Signed Shinsui ga (in block)
深水画