Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 97654

Catching fireflies — Hotaru-gari

Artist / 作者: Ito Shinsui伊東深水
Date / 年代: 1931
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Showa / jaodb
Digital record / 画像記録: 780 × 1200 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Japanese Art Open Database
Published by / 公開者: 黒川トウマ
Rights / 権利: No reusable image license documented
Attribution / 表記: Japanese Art Open Database

Catalog note / 解説

Sunday, 2 October 2005 Shin Hanga: First Set of Modern Beauties: #12 Fireflies Artist: Ito Shinsui Format: Large Oban tate-e: 17" x 11.5" approx Subject: A bijin of the Showa era with a 'flapper' style hairdo copied from the Jazz Age west, she has a peony tucked behind her ear. She is wearing traditional Japanese kimono and obi and is watching a firefly in the evening air above her. She holds a fan and a firefly cage lit by three of the insects. Considered to be one of Shinsui's finest designs. Subject illustrated double page color,, #61, Ito Shinsui: All the Woodblock Prints, Watanabe, Iino, Kono & Hirasawa, Japan, 1992. Provenance: This impression bears the personal seal of Watanabe Shoz…

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