Untitled (hirezaki-eiho)

A fourteenth untitled work by Hirezaki Eiho (1881–1968). Eiho's bijin-ga prints occupy a specific moment in the history of Japanese women's representation: the Meiji and Taisho eras saw women navigating between traditional roles and modernizing aspirations, and Eiho's images — whether depicting women in full traditional kimono or in settings that suggest more contemporary life — reflect this historical complexity. His female subjects consistently appear as individuals with inner lives rather than simply as idealized embodiments of aesthetic convention.