Heron Maiden

Heron Maiden

Kitano Tsunetomi (Japanese, 1880-1947)

carver: Yamana Yoshimitsu (Japanese, active 1920s)

printer: Matsuno Kassui (Japanese, active 1920s)

publisher: Nezu Kiyotarō (Japanese, active early 20th century)

1925

Japan: Taishō period (1912-1926)

color woodblock print with mica on paper

Amy Reigle Stephens, gen ed., The new wave: Twentieth-century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, 1993, p. 133, pl. 139; Kendall H. Brown, Light in Darkness: Woman in Japanese Prints of Early Showa (1926-1945), 1996, p. 50, cat. 53; etc.

image: 17 7/8 in x 11 3/4 in; sheet: 21 3/8 in x 14 3/8 in

publisher's mark: 根津清太郎藏版, printed in black ink within a horizontal cartouche, lower left margin, leftmost cartouche Transliteration (Translation): Nezu Kiyotarô zôhan (Publisher Nezu Kiyotarô) Language: Japanese

printer's mark: 摺　松野活水, printed in black ink, within a horizontal cartouche, lower margin, 2nd cartouche from left Transliteration (Translation): suri Matsuno Kassui (Printer Matsuno Kassui) Language: Japanese

carver's mark: 彫刻　山名良光, printed in black ink, within a horizontal cartouche, upper line, lower margin, 2nd from left Transliteration (Translation): chôkoku Yamana Yoshimitsu (Carver Yamana Yoshimitsu) Language: Japanese

inscription: 第　號, printed in black ink within a horizontal rectangular cartouche, lower margin, center Transliteration (Translation): No. _ (Dai __ gô) Language: Japanese Description: This inscription allows for hand numbering of the impressions, but no published impressions have numbers -MGraybill

signature: 恒富筆, printed in black ink, upper left, within the block Transliteration (Translation): Tsunetomi hitsu (By Tsunetomi) Language: Japanese

Museum Purchase: Margery Hoffman Smith Fund

88.21

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Japanese woodblock prints

mica

relief printing

relief prints

Taisho

woodcuts