Nakagawa was involved in the founding of the Kyoto Sôsaku-hanga Kyôkai (Kyoto Creative Print Society: 京都創作版画協会) in 1929, along with various other artists, and he was a member of Nihon Hanga Kyôkai (Japan Print Association, founded in 1931) from 1932. The print is "signed" with a blind-printed (embossed) stamp reading Isaku ( 伊作) at the upper right in the background. This liberated type of young Japanese woman who affected Western-style dress and hairstyles, as well as a more openly sexual manner, was seen as a threat to the traditional woman's role that valued reticence, obedience, devotion, self-sacrifice, and public decorum. The image captures the lingering spirit of the so-called "jazz age" in Japan, when modan garu ("modern girls: モダンガル) or " moga" adopted attitudes, behaviors, and fashions from the West in the 1920s-1930s. Aiming from above, she will strike the cue ball on its side, which will propel it around the closest red ball and curve it into the second. One of Nakagawa's most popular prints is his Guran masse ("Grand massé": グランマッセ), a view of a young woman attempting a trick shot in billiards. Nakagawa Isaku: Guran masse ("Grand massé": グランマッセ)
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