Artist: Shima Seien
Title: Yugiri - Complete Works of Chikamatsu
Date: 1923 - 26.
Details & Prices: Shima Seien: Yugiri - Complete Works of Chikamatsu - Artelino
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Description:
From the supplement of "Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu" (The complete Works of Chikamatsu). The heroine Yugiri in the play, "Yugiri Awa no Naruto". This print is also known as "The Departed Spirit of a Courtesan". Shima Seien was one of the very few well known woman artists in pre-war Japan.
![Shima Seien: The Heroine Yûgiri, from the Chikamatsu play Yûgiri Awa no Naruto (published in The Complete Works of Chikamatsu [Dai Chikamatsu zenshû]), Taishô period, published 1923 - Harvard Art Museum](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/harvard/thumbs/HUAM-CARP07179.jpg "Shima Seien: The Heroine Yûgiri, from the Chikamatsu play Yûgiri Awa no Naruto (published in The Complete Works of Chikamatsu [Dai Chikamatsu zenshû]), Taishô period, published 1923 - Harvard Art Museum")
