Bathing in Early Summer
by Ito Shinsui
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
A woman bathes in early summer, the season's warmth making the outdoor or open bath a pleasure rather than an ordeal, her nude or semi-nude figure captured in the uninhibited relaxation of the washing ritual. The summer bathing subject—nakedly sensory in its engagement with heat, water, and the body—appears several times in Shinsui's bijin-ga, and his treatment combines the classical tradition of beauty-in-the-bath imagery with the more naturalistic observation style of the shin-hanga period.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Bathing in Early Summer was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水).
Bathing in Early Summer was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Bathing in Early Summer depicts nude and summer.