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Woman preparing to wash her face by Hashiguchi Goyo — Japanese Woodblock print, 1920

Woman preparing to wash her face

by Hashiguchi Goyo

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

Description

A woman in the act of preparing to wash her face — filling a basin, adjusting her position, or removing her makeup at the end of the day — one of Goyo's 1920 subjects in the preparatory-washing category. The face-washing preparation had a particular quality of unguarded authenticity: the woman turning away from the public presentation that cosmetics create, returning to the bare face beneath. Goyo was consistently interested in these transitional moments, neither the fully dressed public woman nor the fully undressed private one.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Woman preparing to wash her face was created by Hashiguchi Goyo (橋口五葉) in 1920.

Woman preparing to wash her face was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1920).

Woman preparing to wash her face depicts figures, bijin-ga, and interiors.