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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2025.10.4
People
Kitano Tsunetomi 北野恒富, Japanese (Kanazawa, Japan 1880 - 1947)
Published by Nakajima Jūtarō 中島重太郎
Printed by Tadokoro Rikimatsu 田所力松
Title
Shinchi in Winter: Before the Mirror, no. 4 from the series Seasons of the Pleasure Quarters
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 廓の春秋　第四　冬（新地）　鏡の前
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1918
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Taishō era, 1912-1926
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/386370

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print; ink, color, and mica on paper
Technique
Woodblock print
Dimensions
H. 39.3 cm × W. 26.4 cm (15 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Andre Bardega, London & Brighton, UK (by c. early 1980s)], sold; to [The Japanese Print Shop, York, UK (c. early 1980s)], sold; to Trevor Ward, York, UK (c. 1980s -2021), sold; to [The Japanese Print Shop, York, UK (2021-2022)], sold; to [Scholten Japanese Art, New York (2022-2025)], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2025.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2025
Object Number
2025.10.4
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A woodblock print depicting a Japanese woman entertainer from the Osaka entertainment district of Shinchi. The female figure is depicted adjusting her hair in front of a mirror. The back of the grey mirror takes up the bottom right quadrant of the print. The female figure’s face is partially obscured by the mirror. She stares frontally. She wears a red kimono with a pattern of red flowers with black leaves and stems. Her arms and hands are raised above her head as she adjusts the comb in her hair. The background is made up of silver mica powder.

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