Woman Cutting Her Toenails
- Date:
- 1953
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 38.7 × 26.5 cm
- Publisher:
Goyo completed only 14 woodblock print designs before his death in 1921, making every genuine impression extraordinarily rare. His bijin-ga are among the most refined of the entire shin-hanga movement. "Woman at the Bath" achieved $40,075 at Bonhams New York in 2020; Sotheby's estimates of $15,000–$25,000 are typical for top examples.
A woman cutting her toenails — an intimate scene of private self-care rendered in the frank, observational mode that made Goyo's bijin-ga so different from the idealized, formal bijin of the ukiyo-e tradition. The subject requires the figure to bend forward, creating a posture that is neither elegant nor artificially posed, and Goyo's willingness to depict such an unguarded moment of ordinary femininity marks him as an artist as interested in real women as in conventional beauty. Printed posthumously from his original blocks.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman Cutting Her Toenails was created by Hashiguchi Goyo (橋口五葉) in 1953.
Woman Cutting Her Toenails was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1953).
Woman Cutting Her Toenails depicts figures and bijin-ga.
Woman Cutting Her Toenails measures 38.7 × 26.5 cm (Oban format).
