Meiji prints


  Design: Tsugumi Bihō (?-?)  
  Print title: Full moon  
  Album/series title: Azuma Sugata (Images of the East)  
  Size: 20.8 x 30.2 cm (ōban)  
  Original woodblock print    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Tsugumi Biho Azuma Sugata Full moon

Enlargement


Special effects: metallic pigments on the standing lady’s fan, collar and obi, and on the collar and obi of the lady on the right; 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 right of print area:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
bi beautiful  
treasure Bihō

Series title in red 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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