Woman at a Hot Spring
- Date:
- 1953
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 51.3 × 24.9 cm
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
A woman at a hot spring — a late work from 1953, printed posthumously from Goyo's designs, depicting the familiar onsen subject that was central to his vision of feminine privacy and physical ease. The hot spring inn (onsen ryokan) provided Goyo with his most intimate setting: a place where the conventions and formalities of daily Japanese life were suspended in favor of the simple physical pleasure of hot water and rest. Nude and bijin-ga tags suggest this belongs to the category of his most direct and intimate depictions.
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Tsuta Hot Springs in Mutsu Province (Mutsu Tsuta onsen), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, First Series (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
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Namari Spa, Iwate Prefecture (Iwate ken Namari onsen)
1943
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Autumn at the Arayu Hot Spring, Shiobara
Autumn 1920
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Arifuku Spa, Iwami, from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series" (Tabi miyage dai sanshu, Iwami Arifuku onsen)
1924
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Frequently Asked Questions
Woman at a Hot Spring was created by Hashiguchi Goyo (橋口五葉) in 1953.
Woman at a Hot Spring was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1953).
Woman at a Hot Spring depicts nude and bijin-ga.
Woman at a Hot Spring measures 51.3 × 24.9 cm (Oban format).