Portrait of a seated young Japanese woman in a kimono, brushing her neck with a small red flat brush.
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The woman’s kimono is slipped off her left shoulder, her left hand holds up a decorative gold on black card-sized mirror. She’s fair skinned with delicate facial features and black hair curled up into her head with a small comb. She sits up straight with knees against her chest in three quarter view towards the left. The kimono is a dot patterned light red with decorative white flowers on yellow and green boarder. Background is undefined neutral color of the paper. There are a few lines of vertical calligraphy on right, and a small line on lower left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.2563
People
Hashiguchi Goyō 橋口五葉, Japanese (Kagoshima 1880 - 1921)
Title
Woman Powdering Her Neck
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1918 (Taishō 7)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Taishō era, 1912-1926
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/206353

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print; ink, color, and mica on paper
Dimensions
55.7 x 39.3 cm (21 15/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Goyō ga

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
35/50

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.2563
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

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