Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908)
A young woman, dressed in a lavender-striped ikat kimono, standing pensively at the window and holding an open book in her lowered left hand. In the garden behind her a butterfly is fluttering over a flowering tree peony.
Untitled (The girl at the window)
Signature: Ôju Toshikata e. Seals: Shô, Setsu.
Kuchi-e (frontispiece print), from "Bungei Kurabu", Vol II,8
Publisher: Hakubunkan, Tokyo
Date: 1896
Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Horizontal Aiban, 21,3 x 28,4 cm (overall)
Very good impression and colours, with lustre printing in the hair. The usual vertical centrefold, upper margin minimally trimmed, otherwise very nice and fresh condition.
Cf. Honolulu Museum of Art, Philip H. Roach Jr. Collection, No 27485; Yokohama Museum of Art 91-PRJ-01E-54; ARC Ritsumeikan arcUP6800 ( dated 1897).
Literature: Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints, Honolulu 2000.
€ 195,-