Woman Combing Her Hair

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Woman Combing Her Hair

Artist Hashiguchi Goyo Japanese, 1880-1921

DateMarch 1920 (Taisho kunen sangatsu)

Dimensionssheet: 17 5/8 x 13 5/8 in. (44.8 x 34.6 cm)
image: 17 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (43.8 x 32.7 cm)

Mediumcolor woodblock print

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1930.109

Not on View

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Works on Paper

Published ReferencesPutney, Carolyn M., Kendall H. Brown, Koyama Shuko, and Paul Binnie, Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2013. pp. 68 repr. (col.) pp 67, 80.Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, A Special Exhibition of Modern Japanese Prints, March 2- March 30, 1930, repr. pl. 5.

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Modern Japanese Prints, July 16 - August 18, 1937.

St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute; Portland, Portland (Ore.) Museum of Art, Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century, 1983, no. 7, p. 35, repr.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Strong Women Beautiful Men: Japanese Portrait Prints from the Toledo Museum of Art, Oct. 14, 2005 - Jan. 2, 2006, pl. 28 (col.), p. 56, (det.) p. 28.

Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Strong Women Beautiful Men: Japanese Portrait Prints from the Toledo Museum of Art, Aug. 28 - Oct. 31, 2010, pl. 28 (col.), p. 56, (det.) p. 28.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, October 4, 2013-January 1, 2014.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.

Label TextThough the Japanese color woodblock print had been brought to artistic heights during the Edo Period (1615–1868) by such artists as Hiroshige, Harunobu, and Hokusai, after the mid-19th century the quality of this art form generally declined. By the early decades of the 20th century, however, a new generation of Japanese artists revived the color woodblock print.

A woman dressing or grooming after a bath was a popular subject with many of these “new print” movement (shin hanga) artists. The subject linked the prints to the erotic undertones of Edo images of courtesans. Borrowing from Western artistic practices, Hashiguchi Goyō and other shin hanga artists produced “pictures of beautiful women” (bijin-ga) by sketching models from life. Goyō used the features of model Kodaira Tomi for this print, though in simplified, idealized form.