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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.
Other prints in this set
- Masterpiece Ukiyo-e Collection - Part 1
- Niōmon Gate
- Standing Courtesan
- Teika Descending East
- Leading Kabuki Actors
- Eguchi and Saigyō
- Puppeteer
- Lady Playing Shamisen
- Autumn Breeze
- Beauty under the Flowers
- Playing with a Kemari Ball
- Six Women Relaxing
- Beauties and a Plum Tree
- Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night
- Banquet at Hinkai
- Actor Iwai Hanshirō
- Actor Ichikawa Benzō
- Pleasure Quarter at Fukagawa
- Beauty in Long Undergarment
- Nakamura Sukegorō and Ōtani Hiroji
- Rehearsal
- Sawamura Sōjurō
- Perspective View of Shin Yoshiwara
- Woman in a Black Gauze Hood
- Ōgiya Tsukasa
- Minami Jūni Kō: The Ninth Month
- Breeze on the Riverbank
- Deeply Hidden Love
- The Lovers Chubei and Umekawa