Combing the Hair (Kamisuki)

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Combing the Hair (Kamisuki)

「髪梳き」

Torii Kotondo (Japanese, 1900–1976)
Publisher: Sakai and Kawaguchi (Japanese)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1929 (Shôwa 4), October

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 47 x 30 cm (18 1/2 x 11 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number49.728

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #50; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 170; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #96

DescriptionMFA impressions: 35.1880, 49.728

Edition: 23/300.

Signed Kotondo saku (in block)
言人作

Marks Artist's seal: Kotondo

Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)