Japanese Print "Heroine Yugiri - Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu" by Shima Seien
Artist:Shima Seien
Title:Heroine Yugiri - Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu
Date:1923.
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Description:
From supplement of "Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu" (The complete Works of Chikamatsu), The heroine Yugiri in the play, "Yugiri Awa no Naruto". This print is known as the title, "The Departed Spirit of a Courtesan". Shima Seien was one of the very few woman artists in pre-war Japan.
![Japanese Print "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" by Shima Seien](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/harvard/thumbs/HUAM-CARP07179.jpg "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")