Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 115162
Morning Hair - Asa Negami
朝寝髪
- Artist / 作者
- Torii Kotondo鳥居言人
- Date / 年代
- 1931
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Showa / ohmi
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 1382 × 2000 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Ohmi Gallery
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- No commercial-app permission documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Ohmi Gallery
Catalog note / 解説
Artist Torii Kotondo (1900-1976) Title: Morning Hair Date Of Work: 1931 November (confirmed) Publisher: Ikeda Dimensions: 19 x 11.75 inches Limited edition of only 100 prints, after which the blocks were destroyed. Scene number 1 among 12 Ikeda published scenes. Notes: Very rare. Kotondo's most famous design. The police banned this scene under the "Peace Preservation Law" of 1928, and confiscated the prints and blocks after 70 impressions had been printed. Why? Because of that comb in the lower right corner (too sexually suggestive. Go figure!). Ikeda marked all 70 prints with an X, gouged the blocks, and then handed them into the police (above data from the publisher Ikeda Tomizo's brother…
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