Early Summer Rain (Samidare), from the series Second Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-nishû)

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Early Summer Rain (Samidare), from the series Second Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-nishû)

現代美人集第二輯　五月雨

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

Japanese

Shôwa era

1931 (Shôwa 6), June

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 43.6 x 28 cm (17 3/16 x 11 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number52.503

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 63; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #88

Signed Shinsui (in block)
深水

Marks Artist's seal: Shinsui

Provenance1952, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA.