Catalog record · 目録番号 88331

Beauty and Demon

Catalog note / 解説

"Kyori no Bijin" ("Beauty in Home Village") from Bungei Kurabu Vol.6, No.6. This is a frontispiece illustration from the popular literary magazine, Bungei Kurabu, which was aimed at largely female readers in Meiji - Taisho era. Here, a beauty is checking her hairdo in a mirror. She is not aware of being watched by a red demon.

Image record / 画像情報

Artelino · Ca. 1900 - 1910s. · artelino

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