Small Standing nude
- Medium:
- Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
- Image courtesy of
- Saru Gallery
This figure study departs from Tokuriki's better-known [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) of Kyoto and Mount Fuji, placing him within the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) (creative print) movement's mid-twentieth-century engagement with the Western life-drawing tradition. The small format and the subject — a single standing nude — reflect the genre's preference for intimate, self-carved and self-printed works in which the artist controlled every stage from drawing to [baren](/glossary/baren) impression. Compositions of this kind typically pare the figure down to a few firmly drawn keyblock outlines, with flesh tones built from one or two restrained color blocks rather than the layered [nishiki-e](/glossary/nishiki-e) palette Tokuriki used for landscape work. Sosaku-hanga peers such as Onchi Koshiro, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, and Maekawa Senpan all produced nudes in similar small formats, and Tokuriki's contributions to the genre — uncommon within his own oeuvre — show his willingness to work outside the Kyoto landscape vein for which his studio became identified.
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
Color woodblock print; oban
1943
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1924
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Small Standing nude was created by Tomikichiro Tokuriki (徳力富吉郎).
Small Standing nude depicts nude.
