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On the Road, A Lady of the Genkō Era (1313-34), from the series Thirty-Six Elegant Selections

1894

Mizuno Toshikata 水野 年方

(Japanese, 1866–1908)
Culture
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Medium
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Credit Line
Gift of the Norman W. Zaworski Trust 2017.71
Public Domain
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Location
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Description

Each of the prints in the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections features a woman from a different time period, as befits an artist who was interested in history painting. Most of the prints are set in the Edo period (1615–1868). Mizuno Toshikata was a favored student of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), and took over his post as a newspaper illustrator.
A vertically oriented woodblock print depicts a woman in a patterned lavender kimono wearing a flat black hat with a translucent white veil. Her delicate, pale face turns slightly toward us. Beside her, the gnarled, dark branch of a pine tree arches over a man in a straw hat crouching behind wooden buckets. Background hills and a winding river recede toward soft blue mountains defined by fine, dark outlines.

On the Road, A Lady of the Genkō Era (1313-34), from the series Thirty-Six Elegant Selections

1894

Mizuno Toshikata

(Japanese, 1866–1908)
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

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