Ito Shinsui (Japan, 1898-1972) - Lot 137

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Ito Shinsui (Japan, 1898-1972) - Lot 137
Ito Shinsui (Japan, 1898-1972) Print, dai oban tate-e, from the series Gendai bijinshū dai-isshu (現代美人集第一輯), First Collection of Modern Beauties, plate Gifu chōchin (岐阜提灯), Paper lantern in the Gifu style. Signed Shinsui and stamped Shinsui. Watanabe Shōzaburō publisher and seals. Dated Summer of Showa 5 (1930). On the reverse, numbered 181/250. Dim. 42.8 x 27.6 cm As a young artist, Shinsui studied under the wing of Kiyokata. In 1916, he attracted the attention of Watanabe Shōzaburō and soon published their first collaboration, ' In front of the mirror '. From 1922 onwards, Shinsui's work consisted mainly of bijin-ga. This print belongs to Shinsui's series of twenty-one prints, First Collection of Modern Beauties. The artist began this series in 1929 and completed it two years later. As Watanabe Shōzaburō describes it: ''A Collection of Today's Beauties'' began distribution to special subscribers in July 1929, and is limited to only two hundred and fifty copies and will not be reprinted. The 200 copies are distributed to subscribers, and the remaining 50 copies are sold to those who wish. As Mr. Itō has been very busy lately with painting commissions, the publication of his color prints may be delayed." The woman in this print is hanging a lantern. This type of lantern was set up during the autumn and was nicknamed the Gifu lantern after the town where it was produced. The lantern held by the young woman is decorated with autumn grasses and flowers: Belles-de-jour and pampas grasses. The upper and lower parts of the lantern are decorated with lacquered chrysanthemums. The first lanterns of this type were developed at the end of the 19th century by a man called Ozeki. He developed a more efficient system in which a single bamboo stick is wrapped around the support on which the paper is hung. The 1936 Toledo catalog explains that this print was made from ten wooden blocks and twenty to thirty superimposed impressions.
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