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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
	Print title:	Title page/Table of contents
	Album/series title:	Senshu no Hana (A thousand types of flowers)
	Size:	20.9 x 30.3 cm (ōban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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This print displays the title page and table of contents of the Senshu no Hana album, including the titles of the twelve prints.

Name of the artist in the first column on the right of the red square

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
池	ike	pond
田	ta	ricefield
輝	kagaya(ku)	shine
方	kata	person	The brush of
筆	fude	brush	Ikeda Terukata

Followed by the series title in the second column from the right:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
千	sen	thousand
種	shu	type
の	no	’s	A thousand
花	hana	flower	types of flowers

In the first column from the right in the white/yellowish square is the word ‘Index’:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
目	moku	eye
録	roku	record	Index

And the last column from the right contains the firm name of the publisher:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
滑	katsu	slide
稽	kei	think
堂	dō	temple	Kokkeidō

Followed by a red seal with the name of the publisher:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
秋	aki	autumn
山	yama	mountain	Akiyama

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References

• Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

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Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints