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Woman of Ôhara (Ôhara-me), from the series Women's Customs in Japan (Nihon jozoku sen)


日本女俗選 大原女
Maekawa Senpan (Japanese, 1888–1960)
Publisher: Fugaku Shuppansha (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1946 (Shôwa 21), August

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 25.4 x 19.8 cm (10 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number59.836
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Smith, Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation (2002), #47
DescriptionFrom a portfolio of 10 works by 5 artists.
MFA prints from the portfolio (complete): 55.483, 55.484, 59.836, 59.837, 59.844, 65.1059, 65.1062, 65.1069, 65.1077, 65.1094
日本女俗選 日本版画協会自刻作品 富岳出版社 昭21 *前川千帆「舞妓」「大原女」「七夕祭」/恩地孝四郎「湯がへり」「花時」/川西英「港の女」/関野凖一郎「東北のいろり端」「輪髪」/斎藤清「蕗刈る乙女」「漁村の女」*
Signed (seal only)
Marks Artist's seal: Han
ProvenanceBy 1959, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA; 1959, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: November 12, 1959)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.