Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 5, Glossy Black Hair (Kindaijisesho no uchi: go, Kurokami)
- Date:
- 1931
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
$5,000–$40,000. Common subjects: $5,000–$10,000. Key value factors: Very limited output makes all prints relatively scarce. The 'Styles of Contemporary Make-up' series is most collected.
"Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 5, Glossy Black Hair" (Kindaijisesho no uchi: go, Kurokami), from 1931, is the fifth and likely final entry in Kobayakawa's cosmetics series, closing the investigation with hair — the most extensive and architecturally complex element of the body's surface ornamentation. Kurokami (black hair) was a trope of feminine beauty in Japanese poetry reaching back to the Man'yoshu, here reframed within the context of 1930s modern beauty consciousness. The lustre Kobayakawa achieves in rendering dark hair makes this among the most technically accomplished of the series.
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Woodblock print
1/1931
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1924
Oil on board
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 5, Glossy Black Hair (Kindaijisesho no uchi: go, Kurokami) was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in 1931.
Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 5, Glossy Black Hair (Kindaijisesho no uchi: go, Kurokami) was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1931).
Styles of Contemporary Make-up: no. 5, Glossy Black Hair (Kindaijisesho no uchi: go, Kurokami) depicts bijin-ga and portraits.
