Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908)
A young woman in the typical attire of a Meiji period schoolgirl or student – a dark purple hakama trouser worn over a meisen kimono - sitting in a park landscape by a lake and drawing after nature in her sketchbook, her parasol lying behind her in the grass.
Untitled (Bijin no kôgai shasei - A beautiful girl sketching after nature outdoors)
Seal: Toshikata
Kuchi-e (frontispiece print), from "Bungei Kurabu", Vol. IX,9
Publisher: Hakubunkan, Tokyo
Date: 1903
Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Horizontal Aiban, 22,1 x 28,7 cm (overall)
Very good impression and colours. The two usual vertical folds, at the left faint transfer smudges, otherwise very good condition.
Cf. Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints, Honolulu 2000, p. 158f and fig. 6.19. Honolulu Museum of Art, Philip H. Roach Jr. Collection, No. 26915; National Library of Australia, (Clough Collection of kuchie) No. 5744737; ARC Ritsumeikan arcUP6852 (dated 1905).
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