Bijin Junikagetsu (Beauties in the twelve months): March, Miyagawa Shuntei, artist, 1898, Tokyo, woodcut, Miyagawa Shuntei (1873-1914) was a specialist in kuchi-e (literally: ‘mouth piece’ frontispiece prints) which heralded a new discourse on the social construction of girlhood and womanhood in its focus on sentimental Western notions of romantic love in Japan. He worked in a neo-traditional ukiyo-e mode, evocative of the past but making obvious to anyone that his prints were from the turn of the century. In compositions reminiscent of earlier Yamato-e ‘Japanese-picture’ genre scenes

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