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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Torii Kotondo (1900-1976)
	Title:	Combing her hair
	Series title:	Twelve aspects of women
	Size:	41.5 x 26.0 cm (dai ōban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Originally published in 1932 by Ikeda. This print is a later edition of 100 prints, published around the mid 1980s by Ishu Kankokai.

Artist’s signature in upper left of print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
言	koto	word	Picture
人	hito	person	by
画	ga	picture	Kotondo

Followed by artist’s blue Torii seal:

Names of printer and carver in lower left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
彫	ho(ru)	carve
師	shi	master	Carver:
伊	i	that one
藤	tō	wisteria	Itō
進	susumu	elevate	Susumu
摺	su(ru)	rub
師	shi	master	Printer:
梶	kaji	small
川	kawa	field
芳	yo	temple	Kajikawa
雄	shio	prosperity	Yoshio

Red artist’s seal in lower left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
著	cho	write
作	saku	make
権	ken	authority
者	sha	person
検	ken	inspection
印	in	seal	Artist’s seal:
鳥	tori	bird
居	i(ru)	be	Torii

Red publisher’s moneybag seal in lower left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
版	han	edition
元	gan	origin
検	ken	inspection
印	in	seal	Publisher’s seal:
遺珠刊行会			Ishu Kankokai

Watermark with characters 山荘 (i.e., sansō, which translates into ‘‘mountain villa’’) in lower left margin.

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References

• Martin, Katherine (2006). Highlights of Japanese printmaking. Part 2: Shin Hanga. New York: Scholten Japanese Art.

• Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

• Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.

• Takashima, Masao (1995). Torii Kotondo. Wood Block Prints. Tokyo: Gallery Beniya.

• The Toledo Museum of Art, Ed. (1936). Modern Japanese prints: wood-block prints by ten artists. Ohio: Toledo.

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Provenance: Artelino