Shinsui's extensive oeuvre spans bijin-ga, landscapes, and genre subjects. Auction averages over 12 months reflect healthy collector demand across all subject types.
The neckband of a kimono—black against the paler ground of the woman's neck and upper garment—provides both title and compositional focus for this spring 1928 print, its mica-enriched background lending a subtle luminosity to the close study. Like its companion "Black Collar" from the same year, this work demonstrates Shinsui's interest in narrow formal problems: how a single detail of dress, precisely observed, can organize and anchor a composition. The mica ground was a technical flourish Watanabe's workshop excelled at.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Black Neckband was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) in Spring 1928.
Black Neckband was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Spring 1928).
Black Neckband depicts figures, spring, and bijin-ga.
Black Neckband measures 37.6 × 26.2 cm (Oban format).
