Girl with lantern

A figure study of a young child carrying a paper lantern, this print belongs to the strand of Keith's work concerned with the children of the Asian countries she visited, observed with the same care she gave to adult sitters. The lantern motif carries associations with seasonal festivals — Korean Buddhist celebrations, Chinese New Year, or the Japanese Bon festival — and Keith would typically have used the warm glow of the lantern as a focal point against deeper surrounding tones, the printer achieving the luminous effect through careful registration of orange and yellow blocks layered beneath the keyblock outlines. The composition likely centers on the child's face and the lantern itself, with bokashi shading suggesting dusk or evening. Issued under Watanabe Shozaburo, the print exemplifies the shin-hanga workshop tradition in which the artist's watercolor design was translated by skilled carvers and printers using baren and washi. Such intimate figure studies sit alongside Keith's larger landscape and architectural compositions throughout her career.