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The Under-kimono (Nagajuban)


「長襦袢」
Torii Kotondo (Japanese, 1900–1976)
Publisher: Sakai and Kawaguchi (Japanese)
Japanese
Shôwa era
1929 (Shôwa 4), July

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 46 x 30 cm (18 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number49.727
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hamanaka and Newland, The Female Image (2000), pl. 169-5 (variant versions, 169-1 to 169-5); Hizô ukiyo-e taikan: Mura (Muller coll.; 1990), fig. 112 (variant versions, pl. 130 and figs. 111 to 113); Toledo Cat. 1936, no. 128
DescriptionMFA impressions: 38.682, 49.727 (variant coloring of kimono), 49.1082 (incomplete proof, keyblock plus red block only)
Signed Kotondo saku (in block)
言人作
Marks Artist's seal: Kotondo
Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)