Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)

Hada kurabe hana no shobuyu (A comparison of flesh at the Iris Bath)

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Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900)
Hada kurabe hana no shobuyu (A comparison of flesh at the Iris Bath)
Woodcut triptych of women and children at a public bathhouse, the rules of the house and advertisements printed on papers hung from the ceiling, a woman in the right panel receiving a massage from a male attendant, unsigned--fine impression, good color and condition
oban tate-e: 14 3/8 x 10 1/8in. (36.6 x 25.6cm.) each approx.

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Sold in these Rooms, 25 October 1994, lot 436

For a version of the triptych with artist's signature added and with the mark of the publisher Echizenya Kaju, 1868, see Matthi Forrer, The Baur Collection Geneva: Japanese Prints, vol. 2 (Geneva: Collections Baur, 1994), pl. G359. The catalogue entry remarks that taking a bath perfumed with iris, alluded to in the name of the bath house, on the fifth day of the fifth month, Boy's Day, was thought to banish evil spirits.