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Yamamura Koka (Toyonari) (1885–1942) | Dancing at the New Carlton Hotel, Shanghai | Taisho period, early 20th century

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Yamamura Koka (Toyonari) (1885–1942)

Dancing at the New Carlton Hotel, Shanghai

Taisho period, early 20th century


woodblock print, artist’s seal Tomonari to upper left margin, dated 1924 and sealed beneath Koka, published by Yamamura Koka Hanga Kankokai (Publishing Committee for Yamamura Koka's Prints)


Vertical dai-oban: 41.4 x 28.4 cm., 16 ¼ x 11⅛ in.

Two fashionably-dressed women sit at a table drinking cocktails in a trendy Shanghai hotel bar, while taxi dancers and their partners swirl around the dancefloor. One of the women cools herself using a fan made of peacock feathers. Koka has embellished the scene with the use of metallic pigments on the fan and shimmering mica on the background.


For another impression in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 2006.1157, go to:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/481523


For another in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum, accession number 2000.26, go to:

https://worcester.emuseum.com/objects/34331/dancing-at-the-new-carlton-hotel-in-shanghai;jsessionid=65518D776CA53982D988A00A15BC047A?ctx=e9d48b81-bbde-4058-bb11-7d89277c7ebd&idx=35228