Dokusho (Reading), from the series Rajo jūshū no uchi (Ten Types of Female Nude)
Ishikawa Toraji, Dokusho (Reading), from the series Rajo jūshū no uchi (Ten Types of Female Nude), 1934, color woodblock print with mica ground on paper; ōban nishiki-e, The Carol and Seymour Haber Collection, © unknown, research required, 2000.73.3
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- Title
Dokusho (Reading), from the series Rajo jūshū no uchi (Ten Types of Female Nude)
- Related Titles
original language: 読書
series (original language): 裸女十種
series (translated): Ten Types of Female Nude
series (transliterated): Rajo jūshū no uchi
translated: Reading
transliterated: Dokusho
- Artist
- Related People
carver: Yamagishi Kazue (Japanese)
printer: Matsuzaki Keizaburô (Japanese)
- Date
1934
- Period
Japan: Shōwa period (1926-1989)
- Medium
color woodblock print with mica ground on paper; ōban nishiki-e
- Catalogue Raisonné
Graybill 2011, cat. 142
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 14 3/4 in x 11 7/8 in; sheet: 19 1/4 in x 14 3/4 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
printer's mark: 松崎啓三郎摺, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche, left margin, bottom Transliteration (Translation): Matsuzaki Keizaburō suri (printed [by] Matsuzaki Keizaburō) Language: Japanese Description: Seal of the printer Matsuzaki Keizaburō 松崎啓三郎
carver's mark: 山岸主計彫, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche, left margin, bottom Transliteration (Translation): Yamagishi Kazue hori (carved [by] Yamagishi Kazue) Language: Japanese Description: Seal of carver Yamagishi Kazue 山岸主計 (1893-1996)
title: 読書, printed in black ink, left margin, top Transliteration (Translation): dokusho (reading) Language: Japanese
artist's seal: 寅, printed in red intaglio within square cartouche, upper left Transliteration: Tora Language: Japanese
signature: Ishikawa, printed in black ink, upper left
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Modern Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
The Carol and Seymour Haber Collection
- Accession Number
2000.73.3
- Copyright
© unknown, research required
- Terms
For more than a thousand years, Japanese culture has defined a woman’s beauty through attributes other than her body. In the tenth-century literary classic The Tale of Genji, what drives a man wild is a glimpse of a woman's calligraphy, the sound of her playing a musical instrument, or her fragrance—never her face. And in Edo-period ukiyo-e, onnagata actors and courtesans alike are the object of desire because of the magnificence of their garments or the elegance of their gestures. Nude figures were rarely depicted, with the notable exception of erotica. Ishikawa Toraji's 1934 series, Ten Types of Female Nude, marked a point of departure as a subject in prints.
- Exhibitions
2011 The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints from the Portland Art Museum Portland Art Museum
