Design:	Kajita Hanko (1870-1917)
	Title:	The scent of chrysanthemums
	Size:	22.3 x 30.0 cm (approximately aiban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

---

Enlargement

---

Published in 1905 as a kuchi-e in the magazine Bungei Kurabu, vol. 11, no. 13.

Artist’s name -and red seal with the same characters in reversed order- in right print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
半	han	half
古	ko	old	Hanko

A beautiful reproduction of this kuchi-e print by Kajita Hanko can be found on the website of David Bull.

---

Literature:

Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (2000). Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Reflections of Meiji culture. University of Hawai’i Press.

Stephens, Amy (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.

Yamada, Nanako (2005). Survey of Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Tokyo: Bunsei Shoin Booksellers Co., Ltd.

---

Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints