ポール・ビニー(敏弐)画　「江戸墨百色　春信の（風呂）」|“Harunobu’s Bathtub,” from the series: A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo

Paul Binnie

2007 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color, and mica on paper; large vertical ōban · Asian Art

A naked young woman squeezing a bath sponge squats in a bathing area, her right hand outside the plane of the composition. Grayish clouds of steam surround her. The tattoo on her right arm is derived from a 1767–68 print by Suzuki Harunobu that shows two women, naked from the waist up, bathing and grooming themselves. Here Binnie singled out one of the women in the tattoo, seen washing her hair in a wooden washbasin.

Artist

Paul Binnie

Date

2007

Medium

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color, and mica on paper; large vertical ōban

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Gift of Estate of Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Bequest of Anna R. Milton, and Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, by exchange, 2018