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Two women cooling down after a bath, one putting rouge on her lips
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1778
- Artist/maker
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Torii Kiyonaga (1752 - 1815) (designer)
- Material and technique
- woodblock, printed with water-based vegetable pigments
- Dimensions
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mount 81.2 x 28.4 cm (height x width)
print 69 x 12.1 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Mrs Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding, 1952.
- Accession no.
- EAX.4076
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 August-30 November 2005, Beauties of the Four Seasons, Mitsuko Watanabe, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 7 on p. 14, p. xiii, illus. p. 15
Glossary
vegetable pigments
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vegetable pigments
Vegetable pigments were used to create coloured dyes for Japanese prints, paintings, and textiles. These pigments often faded over time due to the chemical reactions they underwent.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Beauties of the Four Seasons
Two women wearing yukata are cooling down after taking a bath on an autumn day. The woman with the fan still has her hair tied up with a white ribbon to keep it dry and in shape. The other woman is putting on her lipstick while looking at a mirror.
The ‘singing of the insects’ suggests autumn. -
Beauties of the Four Seasons
Two women wearing yukata are cooling down after taking a bath on an autumn day. The woman with the fan still has her hair tied up with a white ribbon to keep it dry and in shape. The other woman is putting on her lipstick while looking at a mirror.
The ‘singing of the insects’ suggests autumn.
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