Untitled (hirezaki-eiho)

An eleventh untitled bijin-ga by Hirezaki Eiho (1881–1968), representing a practitioner of the beautiful woman print who worked at the highest level of the genre's technical and aesthetic demands. The bijin-ga tradition requires mastery of the dressed female figure — the complex geometry of kimono drapery, the precision of hair arrangement, the psychological legibility of facial expression — and Eiho's nihonga training gave him resources for meeting these demands that distinguishes his work from contemporaries who approached the genre from a purely commercial standpoint.