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Kuroeri (Black Collar) by Ito Shinsui — Japanese Woodblock Print, 1928

Kuroeri (Black Collar)

by Ito Shinsui

Date:
1928
Medium:
Woodblock Print
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Description

A woman with elaborately dressed black hair is shown from behind, her face reflected in an orange-framed mirror at left. She wears a striped grey and mauve kimono with a black velvet collar overlaid by an inner collar patterned with small white and blue flowers, a red under-layer visible at the neckline. The background is a flat warm grey, with the artist's signature and red seal at upper right. Ito Shinsui, "Kuroeri (Black Collar)," woodblock print, 1928.

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Kuroeri (Black Collar) was created by Ito Shinsui (伊東深水) in 1928.