Shrine in Snow (Shatô no yuki), from the series First Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-isshû)

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Shrine in Snow (Shatô no yuki), from the series First Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-isshû)

現代美人集第一輯　社頭の雪

Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1930 (Shôwa 5), winter

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (key block print, kôgôzuri); ink on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 42.5 x 28 cm (16 3/4 x 11 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number50.330

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hockley, ed., Women of Shin Hanga (2013), #41a; Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 61; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #85

DescriptionMFA impressions: 50.330 (key block), 50.331 (color)

Signed Shinsui ga (in block)
深水画

Provenance1950, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: March 9, 1950)