Yokushitsu nite (In the Bathroom) / Rajo jushu no uchi (Ten Types of Female Nude, No. 5)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- British Museum
Description
Number five in the "Ten Types of Female Nude" (Rajo jushu) series, this print bears the Japanese title "Yokushitsu nite" (In the Bathroom). Ishikawa Toraji depicts a nude woman within the tiled confines of a bathing space, where steam and water create a private, enclosed world. The bathroom setting naturalizes the nude, placing the unclothed body in its most logical domestic context. The oban-format composition balances the softness of flesh against the geometric rigidity of the room's architecture, creating a visual tension between the organic human form and the constructed environment that contains it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yokushitsu nite (In the Bathroom) / Rajo jushu no uchi (Ten Types of Female Nude, No. 5) was created by Ishikawa Toraji (石川寅治).
Yokushitsu nite (In the Bathroom) / Rajo jushu no uchi (Ten Types of Female Nude, No. 5) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Yokushitsu nite (In the Bathroom) / Rajo jushu no uchi (Ten Types of Female Nude, No. 5) depicts nude.