橋口五葉画　長襦袢の女|Woman Dressing

Hashiguchi Goyō

1920 · Woodblock print; ink, color, and mica on paper · Asian Art

Kodaira Tomi, the model for this sensual figure, appears in other Goyō works. Here she holds a narrow green sash between her teeth while her bare toes peek out from beneath a long under kimono (nagajuban) decorated with motifs of red butterflies and flowers on a white ground. Goyō, who had created a series depicting beautiful women in 1920, was growing in skill and fame when he died suddenly and tragically of meningitis at the age of forty-one.

Artist

Hashiguchi Goyō

Date

1920

Medium

Woodblock print; ink, color, and mica on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936