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  • <i>Bijin</i> looking in a mirror from the series <i>Light Makeup of the Present Day</i> (<i>Tōsei usugeshō</i> - 當世 薄化粧)
<i>Bijin</i> looking in a mirror from the series <i>Light Makeup of the Present Day</i> (<i>Tōsei usugeshō</i> - 當世 薄化粧)
<i>Bijin</i> looking in a mirror from the series <i>Light Makeup of the Present Day</i> (<i>Tōsei usugeshō</i> - 當世 薄化粧)
<i>Bijin</i> looking in a mirror from the series <i>Light Makeup of the Present Day</i> (<i>Tōsei usugeshō</i> - 當世 薄化粧)
<i>Bijin</i> looking in a mirror from the series <i>Light Makeup of the Present Day</i> (<i>Tōsei usugeshō</i> - 當世 薄化粧)
<i>Bijin</i> looking in a mirror from the series <i>Light Makeup of the Present Day</i> (<i>Tōsei usugeshō</i> - 當世 薄化粧)
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Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) / Toyokuni III (三代豊国) (artist 1786 – 01/12/1865)

Bijin looking in a mirror from the series Light Makeup of the Present Day (Tōsei usugeshō - 當世 薄化粧)

Print

ca 1829
10.4 in x 15.2 in (Overall dimensions) Signed: Gototei Kunisada ga (五渡亭国貞画)
Publisher: Mikawaya Seiemon (Marks 328 - seal 16-011)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The POLA Culture Research Institute Note: The title of this print, written in the toshidama cartouche in the upper right corner, is written as 當世 in an older style, while today if you are searching for information about this series, is written with the more modern 当世.

Horst Graebner at Kunisada.de gives a date of 1820 for this series.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston notes that there are at least two prints from this series that give different series titles: the one shown here from the Lyon Collection is Tōsei usugeshō - 當世 薄化粧, while one of the prints in Boston gives Jisei usugeshō as the title. The terms jisei and tōsei are synonymous terms here for 'the present times.' We have added a jpeg of one of the prints in Boston with the other series title.
Mikawaya Seiemon (三河屋清右衛門) (publisher)