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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Hashiguchi Goyō (1880-1921)
	Title:	Woman combing her hair
	Size:	43.0 x 31.5 cm (dai ōban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

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Enlargement

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Special effects: fine purple mica background.

Original publishing date, and artist’s name in upper left of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
大	tai	big	The 9th year
正	shō	correct	of the
九	kyū	nine	Taishō era
年	nen	year	(i.e., 1920),
三	san	three	the third month
月	gatsu	month	(i.e., March 1920)

Followed by Goyō seal:

in which the three kanji read:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
五	go	five	Picture
葉	yō	leaf	by
画	ga	picture	Goyō

This print is a 60^th anniversary commemorative edition, sanctioned by Goyō’s family, and published in December 1981.

Name of editor in left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
監	kan	keep watch over
修	shū	master	Supervisor:
文	bun	text
学	gaku	science
博	haku	extensive	doctor of
士	shi	scholar	literature
楢	nara	oak
崎	saki	cape
宗	shū	religion	Narazaki
重	shige	heavy	Muneshige

Names of publisher, printer, and carver of this later edition in lower left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
丹	tan	red
青	sei	blue
社	sha	company	Tanseisha
版	han	edition	Edition
摺	suri	printer
匠	shō	artisan	Printer:
橋	hashi	bridge
詰	tsu(meru)	cram
光	hikari	light	Hashizume
男	otoko	man	Mitsuo
彫	hori	carver
匠	shō	artisan	Carver:
植	u(eru)	plant
谷	tani	valley
貞	tei	chastity	Uetani
雄	yū	male	Sadao

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References

• Brown, Kendall H., Putney, Carolyn M., Shūko, Koyama, and Binnie, Paul (2013). Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art.

• Jansen, Marije (2016). Japan modern. Japanse prenten uit de collectie Elise Wessels. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum.

• Marks, Andreas (2015). Seven Masters: 20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

• Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

• Newland, Amy Reigle, and Uhlenbeck, Chris, Eds. (1990). Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga. New York: Mallard Press.

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

• Newland, Amy Reigle, ed. (2004). Printed to Perfection. Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, in association with Sackler Gallery/Smithsonian Institution.

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

• The Toledo Museum of Art, Ed. (1930). A special exhibition of modern Japanese prints. Ohio: Toledo.

• Uhlenbeck, Chris, Newland, Amy Reigle, and de Vries, Maureen. (2016). Waves of renewal. Modern Japanese Prints, 1900 to 1960. Selections from the Nihon no hanga collection, Amsterdam. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV.

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Provenance: A shop in the Kanda district of Tokyo, and thanks to the wonderful help of David Bull who also translated the kanji concerning editor Narazaki Muneshige for me on this print.