19th century Woodblock print Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908) - 10/12 - Imayo Bijin (fashionable women)

Number 10 (of 12) from the series "Imayo Bijin" (The Today's Beauties)

Without frame

Two women on the beach, fishermen are in the background.
This Ukiyo-e was designed by Mizuno Toshikata in meiji 32-33 period(1899-1900).

Framed behind glass

Artist Toshikata Mizuno 1866-1908
Period Meiji
Publisher Akiyama Buemon
Signature oju Toshikata
Seal Skô Setsu

Date, Meji 32 (1899)

Toshikata Mizuno was born on March 6, 1866 as Mizuno Kumejiro in Tokyo. When he was 13 years old, his father sent him to the printmaking school of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. He was also apprenticed to a ceramic painter. And later he was instructed in traditional Japanese painting by Shibata Hoshu and Watanabe Seitei.