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Notes (1st edition)Artist Shinsui Title Kotatsu - Charcoal brazier covered with a quilt Series Second Series of Modern Beauties Date 1931 Publisher Watanabe Edition of 250 Format Large oban (11 1/8" X 17"). This scene was also printed in an aiban size as a magazine insert.
Publisher (this edition): Watanabe Watanabe Watanabe Watanabe
Date of this item: 1931 1931 1931 1931
Notes (this edition)
These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: 		Artist: ITO SHINSUI
Title: Kotatsu
Print Type: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: Second Series of Modern Beauties
Date: 1931
Publisher: Watanabe
Reference #: #64 "Complete Works". Shueisha
Size: 17 x 11 inches (paper)
Condition: Fine impression, very good color and state. Slightly faded. Dated and signed lower left: "Taisho Juninen Ichigatsu".
Notes: Additional reference "The Female Image", plate # 70
Edition 103/250 Kotatsu from the second series of Modern Beauties by Ito Shinsui. Genuine woodblock print dated Showa 6 (1931). Original 1933 Osaka Mainichi Shimbun impression. Fine condition. 12.0 x 7.7 inches. Good texture and ink bleedthrough. Never been framed. Still retains original colors. Compare with image on page 99 of the book "All the Woodblock Prints of Ito Shinsui".
 Original, limited edition Japanese woodblock print by Ito Shinsui (1898-1972), titled A Charcoal Footwarmer, 1929 from The Second Series of Modern Beauties. It is numbered 211/250 in Japanese on the reverse. It was published by the Watanabe Color Print Co., and bears the publisher's circular cartouche at the left edge of the print, as well as the publisher's limited edition seal on the reverse (both of these are shown in the detail scan. This design is illustrated at plate 64 in Ito Shinsui: All the Woodblock Prints, by Tadasu Watanabe. Shinsui, along with Kotondo and Hashiguchi Goyo, is one of the leading bijin-ga (beautiful women) artists of the shin hanga school.
This print is evenly faded, although there are still remnants of pink pigments in her lips. The margins have been trimmed, and it is toned from the reverse, showing through to the front. A scan of the entire reverse is included. There are some losses to the mica background, and a spot of foxing. The dimensions of the print are approximately 16 by 10 1/4 inches.
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