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Woman Powdering Her Neck

1918

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The story

Woman Applying Powder of 1918 was the first print Goyō designed, carved and printed under his own supervision. It answers Utamaro's 1795 print of the same subject but with an open, frontal sensuality, and critics have read it as the epitome of the modern woman of the Taishō era.

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Object details

Title: Woman Powdering Her Neck
Artist: Hashiguchi Goyō
Date: 1918
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Color woodblock print
Object type: Prints
Collection: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (95.875)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0744
Original image: 1269 × 1800 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Hashiguchi Goyō. Woman Powdering Her Neck. 1918. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (95.875). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0744/