Shin Hanga prints


  Design: Tsuchiya Kōitsu (1870-1949)  
  Title: Aki Miyajima  
  Size: 36.3 x 16.7 cm (mitsugiri)  
  Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Koitsu Aki Miyajima

Enlargement


Artist’s name and red Shin seal in the bottom right-hand corner of the print era:

Koitsu Shin Seal 4

in which the three kanji read:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
light  
itsu diverge Kōitsu
shin true true

Print title in the right margin:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
a(keru) be unoccupied  
guyun art  
miya shrine  
shima island Empty art shrine island

Followed by the original publishing date:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
shō clear  
wa peace  
ten  
ichi one  
nen year  
haji(me) beginning Made in
natsu summer the Shōwa era,
no ’s the 11th year (i.e., 1936),
saku make early summer

Embossed names of the current and original publisher, and names of the original carver and current printer in left margin:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
asa shallow  
kusa grass Asakusa
moku wood  
han block  
kan building Mokuhankan
       
do earth  
i a well Doi
han printing block  
ga picture  
ten shop Hangaten
       
hori carver  
ha    
ra    
da   Carver: Harada
       
suri printer  
ō large  
hashi bridge Printer: Ōhashi


References


Provenance: Mokuhankan

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