Hair - 髪

Hair (髪) — its texture, arrangement, and care — is one of the defining preoccupations of bijin-ga, and this print makes it the explicit subject. In ukiyo-e, the representation of a woman's hair, whether in elaborate formal arrangement or in the vulnerable moments of tending it, was understood as a kind of portraiture in itself. Takasawa, working in the 1970s, brings this classical interest into his own era, treating the hair with the precision and sensory attentiveness it demands.