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This 1953 oban woodblock print belongs to a period when Shimura Tatsumi was producing some of his finest bijin-ga work, including the "Five Figures of Modern Beauties" series. The composition reflects the technical sophistication of mid-century shin-hanga production, when the collaborative system of artist, carver, and printer had been refined over decades. Shimura's designs from this era required exceptional skill from the block carvers, who translated his nuanced color gradations and fine textile patterns into carved woodblocks, and from the printers, who applied pigments with the controlled precision needed to reproduce the artist's vision across an edition.