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Woman Applying Make-up

Goyo, Hashiguchi, 1880-1921

Artist : Goyo, Hashiguchi, 1880-1921
Date : 1918
Medium : woodblock
Item# : 950960
Condition : Residue at reverse top edge; faint spot in background
Image size : 20 x 14 1/4 inches
Illustrated : Female Image, pl. 13
Comments : Mica background; metallic highlights
Price : $12,000

About The Artist

Goyo, Hashiguchi, 1880-1921

Born in Kagoshima. Son of Hashiguchi Kanemizu, a samurai and amateur painter in the Shijo style. Given name Kiyoshi. Reported to have taken the name Goyo while in art school because of fondness for the five-needle pine (goyo matsu) in his father's garden. The elder Hashiguchi engaged a teacher of Kano-style painting for his son when Kiyoshi was 10 and in 1899 encouraged him to study Japanese-style painting under Hashimoto Gaho in Tokyo. Goyo shifted to Western-style painting under Kuroda Se.....

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