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Woman Clipping Her Toe Nails by Hashiguchi Goyo — Japanese Woodblock print, 1920

Woman Clipping Her Toe Nails

by Hashiguchi Goyo

Shin-hanga
FiguresBijin-ga
Date:
1920
Medium:
Woodblock print
Format:
Oban
Edition:
Published by Watanabe Shozaburo

Description

A woman clipping her toe nails — the most intimate and least conventionally decorative of Goyo's feminine self-care subjects, the act requiring the figure to bend forward in a posture that is entirely functional and unselfconscious. From 1920, this work demonstrates Goyo's willingness to follow feminine private life into its most mundane and unglamorous moments, finding in even the most ordinary acts of self-maintenance a subject worthy of the same careful observation he brought to his more conventionally beautiful subjects.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Woman Clipping Her Toe Nails was created by Hashiguchi Goyo (橋口五葉) in 1920.

Woman Clipping Her Toe Nails was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1920).

Woman Clipping Her Toe Nails depicts figures and bijin-ga.