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Jihei


治平
Takehisa Yumeji (Japanese, 1884–1934)
Publisher: Yanagiya
Japanese
Taishô era
1914 (Taishô 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 43 x 28 cm (16 15/16 x 11 in.)
Credit Line Asiatic Curator's Fund
Accession Number68.146
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The Male Image (Amsterdam, Nihon no hanga exh. cat. 6, 2011), cat. no. 10; Chiba Mus., Nihon no hanga II, 1911-1920 (1999), #186-2; Nakau, Yumeji roman hanga (1984), p. 11; Nihon hanga bijutsu zenshû 7 (1962), #39 (the pair)
DescriptionOne of a pair, with 68.145.
Nakau 1984 identifies this work as one of Yumeji's earliest print designs, originally sold in his wife's shop Minatoya and later reprinted by Yanagiya.
Signed Yumeji
Provenance1968, sold by Shin Tanaka, Shibunkako Co., Ltd., Kyoto, to the MFA. (Accession date: May 8, 1968)