Six Women Relaxing

Data

Six Women Relaxing
Print   (Part of the set: Masterpiece Ukiyo-e Collection - Part 1)

Torī Kiyomitsu
Takamizawa


2019
00016-011
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00016-011

Print is Public Domain; Photography is:   Creative Commons License

Description

While the index for this collection states that print 11 in the set (this print) is titled "After a Bath" (湯上り), this print appears to be unrelated. Takamizawa must have run out of a couple of the prints in the set, and just put something else in for replacements... Maybe there was a note for the original purchaser, but if so, that has been lost... Unfortunately, we haven't been able to find the original version of this print just yet - if you find it, please let us know!

What we do know is that it appears to be an uncut hosoban triptych on a horizontal ôban sheet, one of Kiyomitsu's favourite formats. In the print we see six young women in beautifully patterned kimono engaging in elegant pastimes. One practices the drum while others write letters, practice calligraphy, admire descending geese, and so on.

The print is a benizuri-e, an image woodblock printed mainly with black and orange (beni) pigments. Monochrome sumizuri-e and beni-e (sumizuri-e with orange pigment added by hand) were the forerunners of benizuri-e. Benizuri-e were a specialty of Kiyomitsu.

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