Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Women Doing Foot Care

Size: 27.0cm by 19.0cm (10.63 in by 7.48 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [M] ?

Designer: Torii Kiyohiro

Era: Taisho | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 8,000$ 65.00£ 49.25€ 57.25 [Item has been sold]

Description: Part of a monthly subscription series of three woodblock prints issued by the Yamato Hanga Kanko-kai in ca. 1924.

This print was listed as: 若妻二美人 (Two Beautiful Young Housewives), the brush of Torii Kiyohiro.

The poem is read as Ko wo motanu Uchi ga Nyōbo no Hatsuzakura 子を持たぬ 内が 女房の 初桜, which can be paraphrased as "Young wives before having children are as fresh as newly blooming cherry blossoms." It would seem that newly-married women, who have not yet had children, still have plenty of free time to take care of themselves.

There are traces of glue removal on the back of this print.

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