Maiko

Catalog note / 解説

Friday, 12 November 2010 TOYONARI YAMAMURA (KOKA) A Maiko Girl Date: originally published 1920 by Watanabe, this is a later edition hand printed from the original wood blocks Size: oban, with full margins, 11.5" X 16.25" Condition: Fine, no flaws, uncirculated print, never framed Impression: Fine, solid key lines, nice surface texture, tight registration, very fine silver mica background Color: Fine, deep saturated color and bleed through to verso Documentation: See page 90 of The Female Image: 20th Century Prints of Japanese Beauties, Hotei, 2000 The appearance of an apprentice geisha in Kyoto in the 1920s. The word Maiko literally translates to “dancing child” (mai = dance, ko = child), b…