MIKI Suizan -- "Tea Ceremony at Cherry Dance" (#2)

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Artist MIKI Suizan (1887-1957)
Title "Tea Ceremony at Cherry Dance"
("Miyako-Odori no Ten-Cha")
Date 1925. Original, Limited Edition (of 200 impressions).
Provenance Consigned by a discriminating eastcoast USA collector.
Series "The First Series, Selected Views of Kyoto" ("Shinsen Kyoto Meisho Dai-Isshu")
Publisher Sato-Shotaro (Kyoto)
Seal, Carver/Printer Maeda/Oiwa
Image Size 10 1/2 x 15 3/8
Impression Very Fine. Skillfully executed "bokashi" shading (including "steam" coming from teapot); "burnishing" to give hair a layered appearance; "gauffrage" to blue left pattern and lower white of kimono; crisply detailed lines.
Condition Very Good+++. Excellent colors; clean backside. Full, original margins ("kento mark" lower right corner). (Some wrinkling/curling; few minor surface scratches, ink-stain lower left margin.)
Reference/Illus Blair "1930 Toledo Exhibition" #116; "Female Image" Pl#139, pg 108.
Comments Beautiful and highly detailed "bijin-ga" portrait--a classic "shin hanga" image. MIKI produced only 14 lifetime woodblock images, 6 "bijin-ga" and 8 landscapes. Very rare.
Item # MM-20
Price Special Pricing $595 (Sold/JP) (Consignor selling entire collection)
(was $955/$725)