Lithography – Paper – Ito Shinsui (1898–1972) – ‘Beauty and Fireflies’ – From the series ‘One Hundred Beauties in Takasago-dye Light Kimono twelve'(高砂浴衣美人百姿 其十二) – Japan – 1931(Showa 6 period)

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Lithography – Paper – Ito Shinsui (1898–1972) – ‘Beauty and Fireflies’ – From the series ‘One Hundred Beauties in Takasago-dye Light Kimono twelve'(高砂浴衣美人百姿 其十二) – Japan – 1931(Showa 6 period)

This woodblock print 19 series
Publisher: Kisendou 喜扇堂

Itō Shinsui(1898-1972)memo
Along with Kawase Hasui(川瀬巴水) and Yoshida Hiroshi(吉田博) , he is a master of bijin-ga who led the Shin-hanga movement. Real name is hajime. While working as a printmaker and lithographer, he studied Japanese painting from Nakayama Shuuko (中山秋湖). At the age of 13, he became a disciple of Kaburagi Kiyokata(鏑木清方) and was given the sign of “shinsui”(深水). he was selected at the Nihon Bijutsuin Exhibition when he was 16 years old. After seeing a work of deep water at the venue of the “Kyodokai”(郷土会) held by Kaburagi Kiyokata’s students in 1916, he was invited by Watanabe Shozaburo, who , and produced his first woodblock print “Anti-Mirror”(対鏡) in July of that year. Since then, he