[Behind the Stage] Butaiura (舞台裏)
Print Date: 1949
Series: [Post-War Life and Customs] Sengo Fûzoku (戦後風俗)
Personal Collection
Note: This print was included in the album [The Face of Tokyo] Tokyo no
Kao (東京の顔) No. 4. It is not known at this time if the design was
reprinted for that album. The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo
dates its album copy to 1951, and other copies are known to exist with a
1950 pencil date. However, it is possible that the 1950 date is not in
Kitaoka Fumio's hand but (erroneously) added later by a dealer based on
the fact that the first three volumes of that album were published in 1950.