This vintage Japanese postcard shows an artwork entitled "Mizu ni Chikai" (水に近き, "Near the Water"), which was created by the Japanese artist Nakazawa Hiromitsu.
The image depicted was a popular medium for distributing reproductions of famous art exhibition entries during the early 20th century.
This particular piece was submitted to the 7th Ministry of Education Art Exhibition (Bunten). It reflected Nakazawa's training in Western techniques, illustrating a figure in a soft, painterly style that blends traditional Japanese subjects with Western realism.
Nakazawa Hiromitsu (1874–1964) was a prominent Western-style (yōga) painter and illustrator who graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1900.
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