Vintage Japanese Kappazuri Print Yoshitoshi Mori Bijin with Kiseru Smoking Beauty 1984 Ed 31/90 Hardware rendered in the everyday dress

rendered in the everyday dress of early postwar Japan

The Shishi

A regionally specific and complete pair — Morioka provenance

decorated in low relief with a pair of deer beneath flowering plants

Vintage Japanese Kappazuri Print Yoshitoshi Mori Bijin with Kiseru Smoking Beauty 1984 Ed 31/90 Hardware rendered in the everyday dressYoshitoshi Mori (, 18981992) Bijin with kiseru () kappazuri stencil print, 1984, edition 31 90 A kneeling bijin raises a long kiseru () pipe to her lips, glancing back sharply over her shoulder. In her right hand she holds a blue and white cloth; beyond her knee sits a tabakobon (), the low tobacco tray fitted with ash container and ember pot that was a fixture of fashionable Edo interiors. Her kimono is rendered in Mori's bold flat planes: a dark