Meiji prints
| Design: | Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920) | |||||
| Title: | Boy on an ox picking blossoms | |||||
| Size: | 22.5 x 25.0 cm (shikishiban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Published ca 1900-1910 by Matsuki Heikichi (firm name Daikokuya) in Tokyo.
Artist’s name and seal in right print area:
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in which the two kanji read:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 月 | getsu | moon | |
| 耕 | kō | cultivate | Gekkō |
References
- David Humphries’s Ogata Gekkō website where the print is displayed here.
- Uhlenbeck, Chris, and Molenaar, Merel (2000). Mount Fuji. Sacred mountain of Japan. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
Provenance: An auction held in December 2013 by the Floating World gallery