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Around 1932, Nakagawa was set to collaborate on a print series titled Shin Kyoto gojikkei hanga (Prints of Fifty Views of New Kyoto: 新京都五十景版画), but the series was incomplete as published by Nakajima Jûtarô of the Sôsaku Hanga Club and only a few images are known. Earlier, in the mid-1920s, these same four artists had formed the so-called Yonin Sôsaku Hanga Hanpukai (Four-Men Creative Print Distribution Club: 四人創作版画頒布会) in Kyoto. He contributed to dôjin zasshi (coterie art magazines: 同人雑誌) such as Han geijutsu ("Print Art": 版芸術) and joined three other artists (Asada Benji, Asano Takeji, and Tokuriki Tomikichirô) in a twelve-print set issued sometime in the early 1930s (for which the artists designed three prints each) see below. 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. (incl.Nakagawa Isaku: Guran masse ("Grand massé": グランマッセ)
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