Untitled (hirezaki-eiho)

A thirteenth untitled bijin-ga by Hirezaki Eiho (1881–1968). The quantity of untitled works in this body of his output — those catalogued simply as "Untitled (hirezaki-eiho)" — reflects both the scale of his production and the challenges of maintaining complete documentation across a career that spanned the upheaval of the Meiji era, the Taisho democracy, two world wars, and Japan's postwar reconstruction. Eiho himself outlived most of his contemporaries, dying in 1968 at eighty-seven, and his later-period works show a continuation of his characteristic warmth into a very different Japan from the one in which he trained.