About This Print
This print was created for the dōjin (coterie magazine) HANGA (Print Art), Volume 4, issued in December1924 by the publisher Hanga no Ie. It shows a woman carrying a basket near the sea. If the artist is the same person as the folklorist that bear the same name, the island may be Niishima (Niijima).
島の女
藤木喜久麿
label on verso of page print is mounted to
The Magazine HANGA
For information on HANGA see "The Magazine HANGA" on the page Iizuka Fūkei (Landscape of Iizuka).
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1348 |
| Title or Description | Island Woman (島の女) (printed on the back of the page the print is mounted to) Title is also seen transalted as "Maid of Island". |
| Series | from the magazine HANGA (Prints), Volume 4 |
| Artist | Fujiki Kikumaro (active c. 1914-1921) |
| Signature | not signed; artist's name 藤木喜久麿 is printed on the back of the page the print is mounted to |
| Seal of the artist |  |
| Date | 1924 |
| Edition | first and only edition (not numbered) |
| Publisher | Hanga no Ie 版画の家 |
| Printer | self-printed |
| Carver | self-carved |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - overall light toning consistent with age; top corners mounted to original folio page |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 6 15/16 x 9 1/16 in. (17.6 x 23 cm) |
| H x W Image | 6 x 8 3/8 in. (15.2 x 21.3 cm) |
| Collections This Print | The Art Institute of Chicago, 1974.563j |
| Reference Literature | Impressions: The Journal of the Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc., Number 24, 2002, Fig. 1, p. 106. |
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