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| Artist: | Torii Kotondo (1900-1976) — 鳥居言人 |
| Title: | Long Undergarment (Nagajuban) - Variant 1 — 長襦袢 |
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| Date of first edition?: | 1930-1931 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Sakai and Kawaguchi — 酒井川口 |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Kawaguchi — 川口 |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Large Oban
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| Format (this edition): | Large Oban |
| DB artwork code: | 45636 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Artist Torii Kotondo (1900-1976)
Title Long Undergarmen(colour variant 1)
Edition size: 300 (Kawaguchi embossed)
Date Of Work, 1st edition: 1929. This colour variant: 1930s
Publisher Kawaguchi
Dimensions 18.25 x 11.875.
Notes
The 4(?) colour variations were published by Kawaguchi alone. 169.1 in The Female Image. |
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| Notes (this edition)?: |
| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Torii Kotondo, 1900-1976
Long Undergarment [variant]
(Nagajuban)
A back view of a beauty wearing a rose under-robe with pale blue collar and a rust-red obi while seated on a blue mat turning to look over her right shoulder, she holds a uchiwa fan with a white silhouette of Mt. Fuji against a ground of light blue; the background of the print embellished with light grey baren swirls; dated and signed Showa yonnen shichigatsu Kotondo ga (Showa 4 [1929], 7th month), the title Nagajuban embossed at center bottom margin, publisher's seal Kawaguchi (in katana) at lower right corner, and hori Ito suri, Komatsu, hanken shoyu (carved by Ito, printed by Komatsu, copyright) at lower left, with embossed edition stamp hand numbered on verso, Sanhyaku mai kagiri zeppan nihyaku hachijusan go (300 limited edition, number 283), ca. July 1929
dai oban tate-e 17 7/8 by 11 3/4 in., 45.4 by 29.8 cm
References:
Reigle Newland, Amy, and Hamanaka Shinji, The Female Image, 2000, p. 127 (five variants)
Koyama Shuko, Beautiful Shin Hanga- Revitalization of Ukiyo-e, Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 2009, p. 114, no. 3-19 |
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| Artist Bio: |
| Torii Kotondo (or Torii Kiyotada VIII) is renowned for his paintings and shin hanga prints of beautiful women. His woodblock prints, superbly carved and printed, are comparable with those of Hashiguchi Goyo and Ito Shinsui. Kotondo was born with the name Saito Akira in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. He was the only son among the five children of Torii Kiyotada, the seventh Torii master. The Torii school had a long tradition of painting and printmaking for the Japanese theater, extending back to the seventeenth century. Kabuki theater was still very popular in the early twentieth century and prints and painted posters were the primary means of publicity. Although Kotondo was mainly interested in studying history and archaeology, it was assumed that he would follow in his father's footsteps and join the Torii school. At age 14, Kotondo agreed to leave school and begin studies with Kobori Tomone, a yamato-e painter. Along with painting classes, Tomone taught Kotondo about the court and military practices of ancient Japan, satisfying his interest in history. A year later, he was officially adopted as the next heir of the Torii school and assumed the artist's name 'Kotondo'. While still studying with Tomone, he began designing illustrations for a theatrical magazine, Engei Gaho ('Entertainment Illustrated Magazine'), and painted kabuki posters and billboards. Torii Kotondo was the 8th Torii and the 5th Torii Kiyotada. His father was the 4th Kiyotada.
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