Meiji prints


  Design: Yōshū Chikanobu (1838-1912)  
  Print title: Backyard cherry tree  
  Album/series title: Azuma Fūzoku (Customs of the East)  
  Size: 21.1 x 30.2 cm (ōban)  
  Original woodblock print    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
Previous Home Next


Chikanobu Azuma Fuzoku Backyard cherry tree

Enlargement


Special effects: burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the hair of the woman and the girl; embossing (kara-zuri) on the woman’s collar and obi; silver metallic pigments on her hair ornament.

Artist’s signature in the bottom left print area:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
leaf  
shū discipline  
chika circumference  
nobu prolong Yōshū Chikanobu

Series/album title and print number in the orange cartouche in the right margin of the print:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
an peace  
tsu harbor, ferry  
matsu end  
style  
zoku customs Customs of the East,
       
ni two number two


References


Provenance: The website of Davidson Galleries

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional