Meiji prints


  Design: Tsugumi Bihō (?-?)  
  Print title: Half a kaiseki  
  Album/series title: Azuma Sugata (Images of the East)  
  Size: 20.8 x 30.1 cm (ōban)  
  Original woodblock print    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Tsugumi Biho Azuma Sugata Half a <i>kaiseki</i>

Enlargement


Special effects: metallic pigments on the hair ornament, collars and obi of the ladies on the left and on the right, on the trees on the sliding door behind the lady in the middle, and on the vase with irises; burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the hair of the ladies.

Published ca. Meiji 43 (1910) by Akiyama Buemon.

Artist’s name and red seal in bottom left print area:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
bi beautiful  
treasure Bihō

Series title in beige cartouche in right margin:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
azuma east  
su    
ga   Images
ta image of the East

Publisher’s address and firm name (from right to left) in bottom margin:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
east  
kyō capital Tokyo,
       
furu old  
nichi sun  
hon origin old
hashi bridge Nihonbashi
ku district district,
       
muro greenhouse  
machi quarter Muro quarter,
       
san three  
chō house block  
me count suffix 3rd house block,
       
nine  
ban number  
chi earth, land number 9,
       
kotsu slide  
kei think  
temple Kokkeidō


References


Provenance: Second-hand bookstore Sugimoto Ryoedo in Osaka.

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