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Fireworks (Hanabi), from the series Second Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijin dai-nishû)


現代美人集第二輯 花火
Itô Shinsui (Japanese, 1898–1972)
Publisher: Watanabe Shôzaburô (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1932 (Shôwa 7), early summer

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 43 x 27.8 cm (16 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund
Accession Number38.714
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 71
Signed Shinsui (in block)
深水
Marks Artist's seal: Shinsui
ProvenanceBy 1938, Yamanaka and Company, Boston; 1938, sold by Yamanaka and Company to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 14, 1938)