Maiko in the Four Seasons of Kyoto: Spring

 

Sadanobu Hasegawa III

 

c. 1950  

color woodcut 

14 1/4 x 9 9/16" image size 

publisher's red "U Chi Da Han" seal and stamped artist's signature in the block, lower right 

not stated 

 

 

cream Japanese laid 

published 

Uchida 

22801 

$225.00 

Created to promote tourism in post-WWII Japan, Hasegawa's ukiyo-e images of "maikos"--or apprentice geishas--were popular collectibles published by famed Kyoto publishing house Uchida. "Maiko" train primarily in Kyoto and Western Japan, becoming geisha once they've mastered the dances of the "geiko" (geisha), and mastering the Kyo-kotoba (Kyoto dialect) and instruments such as the shamisen.