Three girls strolling at Arashiyama

Catalog note / 解説

Around 1924, Miki worked with the Kyoto publisher Sato Shotaro on the design of six bijin-ga and eight landscape prints, carved by Maeda and printed by Oiwa in limited editions of 200. They were likely reprinted in a later unnumbered edition. (Hanga.com) Reference: Other examples are illustrated in: Dorothy Blair, Modern Japanese Prints, Wood-block Prints by Ten Artists. Toledo: The Toledo Museum of Art 1936, (reprint 1997), no.120. According this catalogue the edition was of 200 copies, block carver Mayeda and Printer Oiwa. Amy Newland e Hamanaka Shinji. The female image 20th century prints of Japanese beauties. Leiden, 2000, no.145.