"Returning from a Bath — 湯がへり" places a female figure in the quintessential [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) subject of post-bath return — the walk from the communal or household bath that was, in traditional Japanese homes, a separate structure from the main residence. The Japanese title's intimacy (using the character for "hot water return") grounds the scene in a specific domestic practice while the composition treats the figure with Onchi's characteristic formal attentiveness. The subject represents his engagement with the bijin genre tradition filtered through his own formal priorities.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Returning from a Bath — 湯がへり was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Returning from a Bath — 湯がへり depicts figures, bijin-ga, and daily life.
