![First Cotton Kimono (<i>Hatsu yukata</i> [初浴衣]) from the series <i>First Series of Modern Beauties</i> (<i>Gendai bijinshu dai-isshu</i>) [現代美人集第一輯]](https://woodblockprints.org/media/lyon_collection/images/5/26553_ca_object_representations_media_581_large.jpg)
Itō Shinsui (伊東深水) (artist 02/04/1898 – 05/08/1972)
First Cotton Kimono (Hatsu yukata [初浴衣]) from the series First Series of Modern Beauties (Gendai bijinshu dai-isshu) [現代美人集第一輯]
1929
11 in x 16.75 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock print
Signed: Shinsui ga (深水画)
Artist's seal: Shinsui
Date: Shōwa Yo Nen Shoka
正和四年初夏
Red sample seal in lower left: 見本
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Toledo Museum of Art
The National Museum of Asian Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo - a small black and white reproduction A beauty is resting after a bath, wearing a light Yukata.
In the first famous exhibition of the then contemporary Japanese prints in the Toledo Museum of Art this print was labelled as After the Bath (Yokugo). The accompanying catalogue notes that there was an edition of 200 impressions.
The curatorial notes at the Freer/Sackler Galleries, now the National Museum of Asian Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston say that the publisher was Watanabe Shōzaburō. The Museum of Fine Arts also note that this print was published in the early summer of 1929.
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Illustrated:
1) In color in Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, 24, p. 96.
2) In a small black and white reproduction in Modern Japanese Prints, Toledo Museum of Art, #22.
3) In color in 伊東深水全木版画 (All the Woodblock Prints of Itō Shinsui, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 1992, #50, pp. 79.
4) In a small black and white reproduction in The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions by Lawrence Smith, p. 58.
5) In color in The Female Image: 20th century prints of Japanese beauties, Abe Publisher, 2000, #54, p. 63.
6) in color in The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, Bamboo Publishing, Ltd. and Hotei Publishing, 1993, page 191, no. 250.
Watanabe Mokuhan Bujitsu Gahō (渡邊木版美術画舗) (publisher)
beautiful woman picture (bijin-ga - 美人画) (genre)
modern prints (shin hanga - 新版画) (genre)