| Artist | ITO, Shinsui (1898-1972) |
| Title | "After the Bath" ("Yokugo") |
| Date | 1930, Summer (Limited Edition #148/250) |
| Provenance | Consigned by a discriminating eastcoast USA collector. |
| Series | "The First Collection of Modern Beauties" (1929-31) ("Gendai Bijin-shu Dai-issuh") |
| Publisher | Watanabe Shozaburo |
| Seal, Carver/Printer | Watanabe "6-mm" seal (used on early Shinsui prints). Red "Limited Edition #148/250" seal verso. |
| Image Size | 10 x 16 ("dai-oban") |
| Impression | Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading to face and hair-band; extensive "gauffrage" (embossing) to entire blue kimono and hand towel; strong circular "baren sujizuri" to entire background. |
| Condition | Nearly Excellent. Very good colors. Clean frontside and verso. (Very soft 2 1/2" crease (perhaps natural) to right edge; 1 1/4" scratch to top hair; slight wear; pencil notation lower verso margin.) |
| Reference/Illus | "The Female Image," Plate #59; Blair's 1936 "Toledo Exhibition" pl. #146. |
| Comments | Clothed in an elaborate blue and white cotton kimono, a beauty wrings a towel as she holds up her long sleeves in her teeth. First Edition. Rare. |
| Item # | MM-21 |
| Price | Special $2400 (SOLD/WA) (Reg $3200) |