July, after the bath — Shichigatsu Yuagari

Titled with both English and Japanese (Shichigatsu Yuagari), this oban woodblock print returns to the after-bath-in-July subject, possibly as a variant impression or an alternate compositional treatment of the same theme. The Japanese title's phonetic specificity, naming both the month and the act of emerging from the bath, anchors the image in a precise moment of daily life. The yuagari subject permits Seien to explore the beauty of a woman at rest, her body heat dissipating into cooler air, her formal daytime composure relaxed into evening ease. The dual-language title suggests this print was produced or marketed for an audience comfortable with both Japanese and English, possibly for export or for a bilingual exhibition context.