We recently received a delivery of an extra large copy of Hashiguchi Goyo's "Woman Applying Make-up", and it is gorgeous. When I saw Dave's expression upon opening the package, I knew something good was inside, and I was not disappointed.

We have had a hard time keeping up with packaging, displaying, and uploading all the prints we have been acquiring for the Flea Market. Sharing them online and making them available in our online Flea Market has been especially slow going. Recognizing this issue has led us to consider new ways to share the prints more frequently, but we have not yet decided what form this will take. For today I just thought I would share a bit about the new corner in our renovated shop, where we provide a place for our visitors to explore our largest Flea Market prints.

Our plan is to periodically change what print is featured in the frame on the wall, and leave our large booklets open on the counter-top for people to browse through. These large booklets have long been part of our Mokuhankan shop, but in our earlier location, there was very little room for people to open them and see what was inside. Now, though, there's a beautiful clean space where you can to become acquainted with these lovely antique prints.

As you can see in the picture above, the arrangement today features various editions of the aforementioned "Woman Applying Make-up". Designer Hashiguchi Goyo died young in 1921, and in the law at the time in Japan, his designs entered public domain fifty years after his death. So starting in 1971 publishing houses Yuyudo and Tanseisha started competing with each other printing their own editions of many of his designs simultaneously!

In the case of this image, Yuyudo's edition (in the booklet on the right side, and the image Dave is holding in the top picture) was carved and printed in the same size as the 1918 original, with an image measuring approximately 36.5 cm wide by 52 cm tall. Tanseisha's printing of the same image is a bit smaller at 32 cm wide by 43.5 cm tall.

This is just a small glimpse at some of the larger prints we have in our shop, and I will be sharing more of these prints here and through our other social media channels over time.

Plenty more prints are coming!