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日本女俗選 港の女
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Bar Girl in a Port Town (Minato no onna), from the series Women's Customs in Japan (Nihon jozoku sen)
日本女俗選 港の女
Japanese
Shôwa era
1946 (Shôwa 21), August
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
25.3 x 19.8 cm (9 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. through Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number65.1059
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Feminine and Independent (Amsterdam, Nihon no hanga exh. cat. 5, 2011), cat. no. 20; Smith, Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation (2002), #49
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 ＊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」＊
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 ＊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
(seals only)
Marks
Artist's seals: Kawanishi, Hide
ProvenanceBy 1965, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA: 1965, by inheritance to his wife, Barbara Birkhoff Paine (b. 1909 - d. 1995), Cambridge, MA; 1965, gift of Mrs. Paine to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 1965)