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
$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Ishikawa's prints are relatively uncommon in the market. When available, good examples find ready buyers.
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](/glossary/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.
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
Color woodblock print; oban
1943
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1924
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
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.
