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Looking Itchy: The Appearance of a Kept Woman of the Kaei Era, from the series Thirty-Two Aspects of Customs and Manners
1888
This intimate portrait shows a woman emerging from her mosquito-netted bed, though, as the title suggests, she seems not to have escaped the mosquito’s bites. This print belongs to the second celebrated series from Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s late career, Thirty-Two Aspects of Customs and Manners, which depicts a selection of women of different occupations and backgrounds. Rendered with individuality and emotional specificity, these prints recall Kitagawa Utamaro’s (1753–1806) influential bijinga, pictures of beautiful women.
- Artist
- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
- Title
- Looking Itchy: The Appearance of a Kept Woman of the Kaei Era, from the series Thirty-Two Aspects of Customs and Manners
- Date
- 1888
- Object Type
- Medium
- Color woodblock print with embossing
- Dimensions
- Image: 362 x 243 mm (14 1/4 x 9 9/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund
- Accession Number
- 1968.13.10