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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Masao Ebina (1913 - 1980)
	Title:	Tenarai
	Series title:	Genji monogatari (Tale of Genji)
	Size:	20.1 x 30.4 cm (chūban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Special effects: extensive silver metallic pigments on the kimono; golden highlights on the decorations on the black table, and on the border of the carpet.

Published in 1953 by the Yamada Shoin Company.

Tenarai (i.e., Writing Practice) is the title of Chapter 53 of the Genji monogatari written by Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11^th century.

Artist’s seal in lower left of the print area:

in which the kanji read (from right to left):

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
正	masa(ni)	just
夫	otto	husband	Masao

Genji-mon of Chapter 53 of the Tale of Genji in top right of the print area:

together with the title of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
手	te	hand
習	nara	learn	Writing Practice

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References

• John Fiorillo’s Genji-mon webpage.

• The complete set of 54 prints can be seen on Ross Walker’s Ohmi Gallery here.

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Provenance: Fuji Arts