Japanese Woodblock Prints

Japanese Woodblock Prints

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Ito Shinsui (1898-1972) | The Epitome of Feminine Beauty (Yamato nadeshiko) | Showa period, 20th century

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Ito Shinsui (1898-1972)

The Epitome of Feminine Beauty (Yamato nadeshiko)

Showa period, 20th century


woodblock print, signed Shinsui ga (Pictured by Shinsui), and with artist's red seal, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, printer's mark Ono Gintaro, circa 1942


Horizontal oban: 26 x 41 cm., 10¼ x 16⅛ in.

For another impression in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession number 2002.161.166, go to:

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/62296/ideal-japanese-woman-ito-shinsui


For a further impression, see Shinji Hamanaka and Amy Reigle Newland, The Female Image 20th Century Japanese Prints of Japanese Beauties, (Leiden, 2000), pl. 87.