Anyone know the name of this print? Or where it’s depicting?

I think it’s by Hashiguchi Goyo, woodblock print cut in 1917z

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Japanese artist Goyō Hashiguchi (橋口五葉) depicted his favorite model and lover Nakatani Tsuru (中谷つる), a waitress at Osaka’s Icho restaurant, whom lived in his Akasaka home-studio. She kneels in repose before a traditional dressing-table and mirror-stand on a "zabuton" (座布団 or flat cushion), wearing an almost transparent "yukata" (浴衣 or summer bathrobe). Nakatani holds her sheer summer robe closed and stares while slightly avoiding our gaze. She fills the space with quiet, classic elegance that is enhanced by the sensitive printing of the garment and the solidity of the limbs beneath it. The three-dimensional treatment of her body visible under the pattern of the robe shows the artist's method of almost literally dressing his naturalistic drawing in decorative design. Most of Goyo's models were waitresses or maids rather than Geisha, but the prints for which they posed have a dignity which suggests that the models were cultured and refined which resulted in Hashiguchi immortalizing these women, who in many ways were the Taishō (大正時代) equivalent of Utamaro's (喜多川歌麿) geisha. Created at a time when rapid changes concerning women in Japanese society threatened the established notions of appearances and roles, the print seems to bring the past and present together. The woman is a tantalizing beauty in the manner of ukiyo-e (浮世絵) images, yet has a presence and a sense of self-possession that seem entirely modern for the time. Hashiguchi's father, a samurai and amateur painter, made him study painting from the age of ten, and thereafter at Tokyo School of Fine Arts where he graduated as the top of his class in 1905. His brief life was plagued by health problems — including beriberi and meningitis — which made for a somewhat tragic end. It took him many years to establish himself as a self-producing artist. He had only two years with independence and control over his creations, during which time he produced 12 prints, including this one, before his life was cut short 1921.

夏衣の女 (Natsugoromo no onna aka Woman in a Summer Garment) by 橋口五葉 (Goyō Hashiguchi, Japanese) - Color woodblock print / 1920 - Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) #womeninart #art #woodblockprint #橋口五葉 #GoyoHashiguchi #新版画 #HashiguchiGoyo #浮世絵 #womensart #JapaneseArt #木版画 #JapaneseArtist #ToledoMuseumofArt

Wearing a yukata with an indigo calla lily pattern plus an orange obi tied, a Japanese woman relaxes at an onsen 温泉 hot springs. She looks out over a veranda, enjoying the view. In the background, an oleander bush is blooming. Behind her, a towel with chidori and other small birds on it, hangs over a railing. Hashiguchi Goyō graduated from the Tokyo School of Arts with a specialty in Western-style painting (yōga), but also studied Japanese painting (nihonga). Furthermore, he researched ukiyo-e becoming fascinated with the bijinga (pictures of beautiful women) produced by famous Edo period ukiyo-e artist Kitagawa Utamarō and began to produce his own. Unlike Utamaro, however, the artist hired and directly supervised the carvers and printers who executed his designs. In other words, he had full control over the end-result. Between 1918 and his untimely death in 1921, he produced a small number of bijinga prints that combined Western art techniques and modern sentiment with the spirit of the ukiyo-e from the Golden Age. His work is now considered to be part of the shin hanga (“New Prints”) movement. Goyō completed only eleven prints himself before his death. The others that are attributed to him were in fact posthumously printed by his nephew Hashiguchi Yasuo, who utilized key block proofs and sketches to complete them. Such is the case with this print. A copy of the keyblock proof of this print can be found at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

温泉宿 (Hot Springs Inn) by 橋口 五葉 Hashiguchi Goyo (Japanese) - Mica, gold, & ink with embossing on paper / 1920 - University of Colorado Art Museum (Boulder, Colorado) #womeninart #ukiyo-e #woodblockprint #japaneseart #橋口五葉 #HashiguchiGoyo #universityofcolorado #art #fineart #artwork #温泉 #新版画 #bskyart

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