About This Print

This bijin kuchi-e with its characteristic tri-fold, is bound into the October 1918 "special issue" of the popular women's magazine Fujin sekai (Women's World). This bijin kuchie serves as an illustration for the twelfth installment of the serialized novel Reishō by Tengai Kosugi 小杉天外 (1865-1912) which ran in the magazine prior to its publication in three volumes starting in 1919. 

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Full length novel Reishō (installment 12)

by Tengai Kosugi (1865-1952)

Light of a Firefly

長篇小説 靈鐘 (十二) 

小杉天外

螢火

About Taishō-Era Bijinga Kuchi-e
Kendall Brown identifies the "golden age" of bijin kuchi-e, illustrations of beautiful women appearing in Taisho-era popular magazines, as the period between 1914 and 1921, with the genre continuing into the 1930s.

For more information on this genre and popular magazines of the period see the article Bijin Kuchi-e and Taisho-Era Popular Magazines on this website. 

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#2401a
Title or Description	霛鐘 Reishō 霛鐘 [挿画] .. 森田久 Reisho [insert] Morita Hisashi
Magazine	Fujin sekai (Women's World), Special Issue, volume 13, number 12   婦人世界 秋季増刊 第十三巻第十二號
Artist	Morita Hisashi (active c. 1920s)
Signature	ひさし Hisashi
Seal	not sealed
Publication Date	October 5, 1918 大正七年十月五日
Publisher	Jitsugyō no Nihonsha  實業之日本社
Printer	東京三間印刷所オフセット印刷 Tokyo Mitsuma Print Shop Rotary Offset Printing
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	excellent - bound into original magazine; characteristic tri-fold
Miscellaneous
Genre	bijin kuchi-e
Format
H x W Paper	11 7/8 x 8 11/16 in. (30.2 x 22.1 cm)
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11/9/2020 created