A Pair of Socks

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Artist Narita Morikane(Japanese)Japanese

CultureJapanese

Titles

A Pair of Socks
from the series Twenty-Four Figures of Charming Women
Adesugata Nijushiko: Tabi

Datec. 1931

MediumWoodblock print; color on kozo paper

DimensionsBlock: 15 1/8 × 10 in. (38.4 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 16 3/4 × 11 3/8 in. (42.5 × 28.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Stewart Charity Fund

Object number2019.267

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Department

Asian Art

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PRINTS

Provenance[Scholten Japenese Art, New York, 2019]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Published References Amy Reigle Newland and Hamanaka Shinji, The Female Image: 20th century prints of Japanese beauties, 2000, no. 206 Koyama Shuko, Beautiful Shin Hanga- Revitalization of Ukiyo-e, Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 2009, p. 145, no. 3-65 Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: title printed in black, upper right edge: [Adesugata nijiushiko, Twenty-four examples of charming figures]
Recto: artist’s signature printed in black, center right edge: [Morikane]
Verso: written in graphite, right bottom edge: Morikane
Verso: written in graphite, center bottom edge: ISH 02175639

Recto: artist’s signature printed in black, center right edge: [Morikane]

Recto: artist’s seal printed in red, center right edge: [Morikane]
Recto: printed in red, lower left edge: Publisher’s marks

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