Top Quality Art - Woman Washing Face

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by Hashiguchi Goyo

Title

Top Quality Art - Woman Washing Face

Artist

Hashiguchi Goyo

Medium

Painting - Woodprint

Description

【Hashiguchi Goyo】
「Woman Washing Face」
（Top Quality Image Edition）

「顔を洗う女」（1920）【最高画質版】


【Goyō Hashiguchi】
(橋口 五葉 Hashiguchi Goyō, December 21, 1880 – February 24, 1921) was a Japanese ukiyoe artist.
Hashiguchi was born Hashiguchi Kiyoshi in Kagoshima Prefecture. His father Hashiguchi Kanemizu was a samurai and amateur painter in the Shijō style. His father hired a teacher in the Kano style of painting in 1899 when Kiyoshi was only ten. Kiyoshi took the name of Goyō while attending the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, from which he graduated best in his class in 1905. The name Goyō was chosen because of his fondness for the five needle pine in his father's garden.

Goyō Hashiguchi prints are of extremely high quality standards. They were sold at very high prices at the time of their first publication and sold well nevertheless. The tragedy of Hashiguchi was the short time span of only two years to produce these superb masterworks - apart from his first print published with Watanabe.

The blocks for the fourteen prints and many of the prints themselves were destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923. However, Goyō reprints are currently on the market. Most reprints are marked with a small seal in the side margin, something which does not appear on original prints. Many years after Goyō's death, his brother used Goyō's remaining designs as the basis for ten more prints. These were published with the same standards as the earlier prints and in limited numbers. The printing was supervised by Goyō's nephew, Hashiguchi Yasuo. Today, works by Goyō are among the most highly prized of all shin-hanga prints.


【橋口 五葉】（Hashiguchi Goyō / はしぐち ごよう）
1881年（明治14年）12月21日 - 1921年（大正10年）2月24日
明治末から大正期にかけて文学書の装幀作家、浮世絵研究者として活躍したが、最晩年、新版画作家として新境地を開こうとした矢先に急死した。アール・ヌーヴォー調の装幀本、「大正の歌麿」と形容された美人画を残している。

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September 8th, 2018