Artworks

Young Girl Washing

Artwork · Itō Shinsui · 1917 · Japanese woodblock print · British Museum

An early print by Itō Shinsui (1898–1972), recruited by Watanabe in 1916: a girl, nude to the waist, squats on a platform to reach the washing bucket, her neck — an erotic part for the Japanese — partly hidden; the strong curves of back and thigh balanced by the curve of her arms. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 384–385, fig. 459. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.