"In The Mood for a Walk" (Yuho ga shitaso, 1888) from the "Thirty-two Aspects of Women" series captures a woman's restless desire for outdoor movement—a state of pleasant anticipation rendered through her posture and expression rather than overt action. The series title "Thirty-two Aspects" echoes the classical Buddhist list of thirty-two physical marks of an ideal being, playfully applying sacred numerology to the secular study of female psychology. The woman's fashionable Meiji-era dress suggests a figure comfortable in the new freedoms the era offered urban women.
1888
Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
In The Mood for a Walk (Yuho ga shitaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)" was created by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) in 1888.
Yes — In The Mood for a Walk (Yuho ga shitaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)" is part of the Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso) series by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.
In The Mood for a Walk (Yuho ga shitaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)" depicts figures, bijin-ga, and portraits.
