Carte Postale Bath Aroma Ito Shinsui Japanese Fine Art

Color woodcut print, 40.8 x 25.7 cm The fragrance of a bath. Itō Shinsui, 1930. Print shows a young woman, full-length, facing right, standing on rocks, washing her feet above a stream or pool among falling maple leaves. Library of Congress, Washington DC Itō Shinsui or Ito Shinsui (伊東深水, 4 February 1898–8 May 1972), was the pseudonym of a Nihonga painter and ukiyo-e woodblock print artist in Taishō and Showa period Japan. He was one of the great names of the shin hanga art movement, which revitalized the traditional art after it began to decline with the advent of photography in the early 20th century. His real name was Hajime Itō (伊東一 Itō Hajime). Vintage beautiful figure nature landscape artistic elegant decor decorative Asian Japanese fine art.