Untitled (hirezaki-eiho)

A seventh untitled bijin-ga by Hirezaki Eiho (1881–1968). Among collectors of Meiji and Taisho woodblock prints, Eiho's work is valued both for its technical accomplishment and for the quality of warmth and individuality he brings to the bijin-ga genre. His prints are regularly included in exhibitions and publications devoted to the Shin-hanga movement, though he belongs more precisely to the earlier generation of bijin-ga printmakers who established the tradition that Shin-hanga later codified and commercialized. His long career gives his oeuvre unusual historical range.