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Woman Appplying Color to Her Lips (Portrait of Chiyo, a Maiko of Gion, Kyoto)


紅筆を持てる女
Hashiguchi Goyô (Japanese, 1881–1921)
Japanese
Taishô era
1920 (Taishô 9), February

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink, color, and mica on paper
Dimensions 41.4 x 28.2 cm (16 5/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich
Accession Number47.59
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Brown et al., Fresh Impressions (2013), cat. 4; Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #23; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 18; Chiba Mus., Nihon no hanga II, 1911-1920 (1999), #257; Hashiguchi Goyô ten (1995), #43
DescriptionSelf-published.
Signed Goyô ga (in block)
五葉画
Marks Artist's seal: Hashiguchi Goyô
Provenance1947, gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich to the MFA. (Accession date: January 9, 1947)