Kotondo is best known for bijin-ga, but his complete oeuvre includes actor prints and other figure subjects. His small corpus of only 21 designs ensures that all authenticated period impressions carry collector interest and scarcity premiums.
A woman has been drinking, her cheeks flushed with the pleasant warmth of sake, her composure slightly loosened. The title Horoyoi — "tipsy" or "pleasantly drunk" — names a specific emotional state: not intoxication but the happy, uninhibited warmth that precedes it. Kotondo depicts the woman in this state with affection and without judgment, the slight flush of the cheeks and the loosening of careful self-presentation captured in a composition that is both intimate and gently comic.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tipsy — ほろ酔 was created by Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人) in 1932.
Tipsy — ほろ酔 was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1932).
Tipsy — ほろ酔 depicts figures, bijin-ga, and food & drink.
