Maiko, from the series Women's Customs in Japan (Nihon jozoku sen)

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Maiko, from the series Women's Customs in Japan (Nihon jozoku sen)

日本女俗選　舞妓

Maekawa Senpan (Japanese, 1888–1960)
Publisher: Fugaku Shuppansha (Japanese)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1946 (Shôwa 21), August

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 26 x 19.7 cm (10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.

Accession Number65.1062

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFrom a portfolio of 10 works by 5 artists.
MFA prints from the portfolio (complete): 55.483, 55.484, 59.836, 59.837, 59.844, 65.1059, 65.1062, 65.1069, 65.1077, 65.1094

Signed (seal only)

Marks Artist's seal: Han

ProvenanceBy 1965, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA: 1965, by inheritance to his wife, Barbara Birkhoff Paine (b. 1909 - d. 1995), Cambridge, MA; 1965, gift of Mrs. Paine to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 1965)