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文芸倶楽部 9巻10号 「美人の海水浴」
Sea-bathing Beauty (Bijin no kaisuiyoku), frontispiece illustration from the literary magazine Bungei kurabu, vol. 9, no. 10
文芸倶楽部 9巻10号 「美人の海水浴」
Japanese
Meiji era
1903 (Meiji 35)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
31.5 x 22.5 cm (12 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert M. Woollacott
Accession Number2015.2847
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Yamada, Mokuhan kuchi-e sôran (2005), p. 117, photo p. 307; Merrit & Yamada, Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints (2000), fig. 6.33; Swinton, Terrific Tokyo (1999), #33
DescriptionMFA impressions:
Bound volume of the magazine: 2015.2848 (red and light green stripes), 2015.2885 (dark blue and red stripes)
Frontispiece print only: 2015.2847, 2015.2884 (both red and light green stripes)
No corresponding story identified.
Bound volume of the magazine: 2015.2848 (red and light green stripes), 2015.2885 (dark blue and red stripes)
Frontispiece print only: 2015.2847, 2015.2884 (both red and light green stripes)
No corresponding story identified.
Signed
Kôgyô
広業
広業
Marks
Artist's seal: Sôzan
Provenance2003, sold by Arts & Designs of Japan, San Francisco, CA to Robert Woollacott, Cambridge, MA; 2015 gift of Robert Woollacott to the MFA. (Accession date: September 24, 2015).