Hair (Kami) - a beauty leans over a tub of water to wash her long hair, her blue and white yukata open to her waist
Woodblock print, embellished with mica, signed in sumi ink Shinsui ga, artist's seal Shikuntei, printed by Ono Gintaro, with sealed label attached to verso stating 'Published by Commission for Protection of Cultural Properties', numbered 159
Vertical dai oban (52.4 x 37.9 cm.)

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This print was produced for the occasion of Shinsui being designated an Intangible Cultural Property in 1952. He supervised the printing and used mica - an expensive material and indication of a special edition.

For the same print in the collections of Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of C. Adrian Rübel, go to:
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/184442
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