Woman in a Long Undergarment

Object Details

• Artist

  Hashiguchi Goyo 橋口五葉 (1880-1921)

• Label

  For this print, Goyo used an unusually narrow format that complements the long, slender figure of a woman adjusting her undergarment. The plain blue sash repeats the dominant vertical lines of the composition. The texture of the silk kimono is reproduced by an embossing technique called gauffrage, in which the dampened paper is firmly burnished over a deeply carved pattern on an un-inked block. This painstaking technique, which had been used in fine Japanese prints such as privately commissioned editions known as surimono, appears often in Goyo's prints of women.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Japanese Beauty: Woodblock Prints by Goyo from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (November 18, 2001 to February 10, 2002)

  Goyo: Japanese Prints (August 27, 1995 to March 17, 1996)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of H. Ed Robison in memory of Ulrike Pietzner-Robison

• Type

  Print

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1920s

• Name

  Hashiguchi, Goyo

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Japanese Art, Taisho era (1912 - 1926), Woman

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints