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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944)
	Print title:	Visiting the hospital
	Album/series title:	Katei no Hana (Household flowers)
	Size:	21.4 x 31.6 cm (ōban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Special effects: burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the women’s hair; silver metallic pigments on the hair pin and kimono of the lady on the right, on the shoe and the star on the collar of the nurse on the left, and on the nails of the couch in the background.

Published ca. 1907 by Akiyama Buemon.

This print has a vertical fold in the middle, indicating that it was issued as part of an orihon album (i.e., folding book).

Artist’s name in lower right of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
秀	hiide(ru)	excell
方	kata	person	Hidekata

Series title and print number in the light-pink cartouche in the right margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
家	ka	house
庭	tei	garden
の	no	’s
花	hana	flower	Household flowers,
三	san	three	print number three

Publisher’s address and firm name in middle of bottom margin (from right to left):

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
東	tō	east
京	kyō	capital
市	shi	city	Tokyo city,
日	ni	sun
本	hon	origin
橋	hashi	bridge
區	ku	district	Nihonbashi district,
室	muro	greenhouse
町	machi	quarter	Muro quarter,
三	san	three
丁	chō	house block
目	me	count suffix	3rd house block,
九	kyū	nine
番	ban	number
地	chi	earth, land	number 9,
滑	katsu	slide
稽	kei	think
堂	dō	temple	Kokkeidō

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Provenance: Artelino