Sleeping woman — 眠る婦人

Sleeping woman — nemuru fujin — is a subject in the bijin-ga tradition that depicts a reclining or sleeping female figure with particular compositional and erotic implications. The sleeping woman, her guard down, is observed in a moment of unconscious vulnerability that the bijin-ga tradition treats with varying degrees of voyeuristic or intimate intent. Hanko's refined version, suggested by the Japanese title 眠る婦人, would treat this established subject with the psychological sensitivity and compositional care that characterized his approach to the female figure.