Oiran (high-ranking prostitute) Hinaratsu stands with her Kaburo on the veranda of the clove house to check the weather; black night sky; cloud with cranes; heavy rain; scroll is signed. Blind tooling
Provenance
[...] - at least at the end of 1929 Ostasiatica collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; after 1945 no longer in the possession of Herbert Ginsberg; circumstances of loss unknown - a loss as a result of Nazi persecution cannot be ruled out. Whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI NY), Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921, 690-921, Abschnitt: Japanische Holzschnitte, Nr. 33.
