Nude

A second figure study within Konishi's nude group, presenting a different pose or compositional treatment of the female form. As with much mid-twentieth-century Japanese figure work in mokuhanga, the print likely employs a limited palette and relies on the carved keyblock line to articulate the body, with color blocks providing flesh tone and an atmospheric ground. The subject places the work within the sosaku-hanga lineage of figure study rather than the older bijin-ga tradition: where bijin-ga used the clothed female form to display textile pattern and seasonal motif, postwar nudes treat the body itself as the formal subject, often with a spareness inherited from European modernist printmaking. The artist's hand would show in the registration between blocks, the choice of washi, and the restraint of the palette. The pairing of two nude prints within Konishi Seiichiro's attributed output suggests the figure was a sustained interest rather than an isolated experiment, paralleling the figural work in his Siblings composition.