"After the Bath" joins a group of prints in which Onchi depicted the female figure in the domestic context of bathing and dressing — subjects with deep roots in the [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) tradition but approached by Onchi with his characteristic interest in formal and tonal values over conventional decorative appeal. The figure after bathing provided him with a subject at once intimate and universal, the moment of undress generating a compositional openness that his more formal portraits could not achieve. This work demonstrates his engagement with the human figure as a subject of form rather than primarily of sentiment.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
After the Bath was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
After the Bath depicts figures, bijin-ga, and daily life.
