82/5374 Ito, Shinsui (1898-1972). Fubuki (Blizzard). Col. woodcut dai-ôban (±42x30 cm.), signed Shinsui-ga w. red seal, publ. Watanabe Shôzaburô, 1932, framed.

- A few barely visible spots of foxing in bottom third of the print, and edges of blank margins trifle/ sl. browned, but otherwise fine.

= The New Wave, p.192: "This delicately conceived image, which was exhibited in the Tôkyôkai ten ('Exhibition of the Tokyo society'), is particularly close in style to a painting of the same name by Shinsui created fifteen years later. Compared to many of his prints of beautiful women, the composition of Blizzard is not static.The artist has created an illusion of movement through the woman's (a geisha?) flowing garment and her stance as she braces herself, with umbrella in hand, against the harsh winter wind." No. 184/250. From the series Gendai bijinshû dainishû (Second collection of modern beauties). SEE ILLUSTRATION ON FRONTCOVER.