Hair Combing
Torii Kotondo

Hair Combing - Torii Kotondo woodblock print
Artist
Torii Kotondo 鳥居言人
Title
Hair Combing 髪梳き
Original publication date
This publication date
Publisher
Ishukankokai 遺珠刊行会
Carver
Susumu Ito (1916-98) 伊藤 進
Printer
Yoshio Kajikawa (1922-) 梶川 芳雄
Medium
Colour woodblock print on paper 木版画
Paper dimensions (h × w)
48.5 × 33.5 cm
Image dimensions (h × w)
41.5 × 26.0 cm
Price
Sold
Condition and remarks
The actual edition size of Ishukankokai reproductions is unknown, however, it was probably approx 2000. The first of these reproductions was an edition of 100 and is identified by a shiny silver inner folder. Then followed a numbered edition of 450, a "first print" numbered edition of 750, and finally an un-numbered open edition, all of which had a beige inner folder.
Original in 1932 publisher Ikeda, carver K. Maeda, printer W. Komatsu, 13 blocks, 18 impressions, 100 copies.
References
Reference number
M200
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