Black Hair. Series: Kindai Jisei no sho no uchi go
- Date:
- 1931
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- mfa
Description
"Black Hair" from the series "Kindai jisei no sho no uchi go," 1931, is the fifth design in Kobayakawa's makeup series — the same subject as "#5 Glossy dark hair" but identified here by its series designation. It captures a woman's dark, carefully arranged hair in the modern styles of 1931 Tokyo, the lustrous blacks rendered with the same technical mastery that Kobayakawa brought to all his close-focus beauty studies. The series title "Kindai jisei no sho" translates roughly as "Book of Contemporary Looks."
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Frequently Asked Questions
Black Hair. Series: Kindai Jisei no sho no uchi go was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in 1931.
Black Hair. Series: Kindai Jisei no sho no uchi go was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1931).
Black Hair. Series: Kindai Jisei no sho no uchi go depicts bijin-ga and portraits.