Meiji prints


  Design: Tsugumi Bihō (?-?)  
  Print title: Title page/Table of contents  
  Album/series title: Azuma Sugata (Images of the East)  
  Size: 21.2 x 30.0 cm (ōban)  
  Original woodblock print    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Tsugumi Biho Azuma Sugata Table Of Contents

Enlargement


Special effects: metallic pigments on the pine needles and cones at the bottom of the fan.

Published ca. Meiji 33 (1900) by Akiyama Buemon.

Name of the artist followed by the album name in the first two columns from the right:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
tsugumi thrush  
bi beautiful  
treasure By the brush of
hitsu brush Tsugumi Bihō
       
azuma east  
su    
ga   Images
ta image of the East

In the third column from the right is the word ‘Index’:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
moku eye  
roku record Index

Followed by the titles of the twelve prints in this album (from right to left):

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
go honorific prefix  
ra    
i    
ki    
ya    
ku visitor A visitor
       
koto koto  
no ’s  
hi    
ki    
so   First koto playing
me first playing of the year of the year
       
shio    
hi low tide  
a    
so    
bi playing Gathering shells
       
su    
ga    
ta    
mi full-length mirror Full-length mirror
       
hana flower  
shi    
yo    
u    
bu iris Irises
       
han half  
kai meet  
seki location Half a kaiseki*
       
ma    
su full  
tsuki moon Full moon
       
ha    
na    
hi fireworks Fireworks
       
i    
nu dog  
wo    
a    
i    
su love Loving the dog
       
yo    
mi    
mo    
no reading matter Reading matter
       
cha tea  
no ’s  
yu hot water Tea ceremony
       
yu    
ki snow  
a    
ga    
ri after After the snow

Publisher’s firm name and red seal in last column from the right:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
kotsu slide  
kei think  
hall  
hai honorific Kokkeidō

The two kanji in the red seal read ‘Akiyama’, the name of the publisher.


References


Provenance: Second-hand bookstore Sugimoto Ryoedo in Osaka.

*kaiseki is a set menu of select food served on an individual tray (one for each member of a gathering)

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