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Fragrance of the Hot-spring (Yu no ka), from the series First Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin shû dai-isshû)


現代美人集第一輯 湯の香
Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1930 (Shôwa 5), autumn

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 43 x 27.3 cm (16 15/16 x 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number49.743
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 60; Ôta Mus., Meiji-Taishô bijin hanga ten (1993), #84; Smith, The J. Print since 1900 (1983), #35, photo p. 59
Signed Shinsui ga (in block)
深水画
Marks No artist's seal
Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)