Ten Types of Female Nudes: Blue Parrot (Rajo jusshu: Buryu inko)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Scholten Japanese Art
- Image courtesy of
- Scholten Japanese Art
Description
"Ten Types of Female Nudes: Blue Parrot" is a shin-hanga print by Ishikawa Toraji, created during the Taisho-Showa. This work demonstrates the artist's distinctive approach to nudes and figure studies through the medium of Japanese woodblock printing.
Ishikawa Toraji was a Japanese painter and printmaker whose woodblock prints of female nudes and figure studies occupy a unique position within the shin-hanga movement. He brought Western academic figure study to Japanese printmaking.
