Design:	Torii Kotondo (1900-1976)
	Title:	Morning hair
	Size:	40.8 x 25.6 cm (dai oban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

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Enlargement

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Originally published: 1932.

This print is a later edition of 100 prints, published around the mid 1980s.

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 Shi seal:

Names of printer and carver in lower left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
摺	su(ru)	print, rub
師	shi	master	Printer:
渡	wata(ru)	cross
辺	-be	vicinity
義	gi	justice	Watanabe
明	aki(raka)	clear	Yoshiaki
彫	ho(ru)	carve
師	shi	master	Carver:
小	ko-	little
池	ike	pond	Koike
茂	shige(ru)	grow thick	Shigeru

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:
			Ishukankokai

Watermark in lower left margin.

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References

• Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection [Hizo ukiyoe taikan. Muraa-korekushon]. 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 (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.

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Provenance: Ross Walker’s Ohmi Gallery