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Beauty playing a Violin
by Tomioka Eisen

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	Artist:	Tomioka Eisen
	Title:	Beauty playing a Violin
	Series:
	Date of first edition?:	1890 (in the decade of)
	Publisher (first edition)?:	Not Set
	Publisher (this edition)?:	Not Set
	Medium (first edition):	Woodblock
	Medium (this edition):	Woodblock
	Format (first edition):	Kuchi-e
	Format (this edition):	Kuchi-e
	DB artwork code:	45639
	Notes (first edition)?:
	Notes (this edition)?:	The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies: Beauty playing Violin Tomioka Eisen Original Japanese Wootdblock Print (Meiji Period) Artist: Tomioka Eisen (1864-1905) Format: Kuchi-e( approx: 30cmx22cm), Conditions: Fine colors and impression . Light toning and slight soiling, as is common in these Kuchi-e pieces. The print is folded vertically (now flattened) as are all kuchi-e prints (because of their use), so this is not a negative. The print is exactly as the pictures.So please, look attentively the picture. Thank you. Subject: The work is a Kuchi-e print by Tomioka Eisen. He was an important woodblock printmaker of the Meiji Period. His specialty was kuchi-e prints and erotics prints. Kuchie are frontpieces prodduced for publication in Japanese novels and literary magazines at the turn-of-the-century (1895-1912). This print represents a beauty playing violin for a man. She is wearing western dress.