Meiji prints
| Design: | Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921) | |||||
| Print title: | Wisteria blossoms | |||||
| Album/series title: | Edo no Nishiki (Brocade pictures of Edo) | |||||
| Size: | 21.1 x 31.8 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: subtle burnished pattern on the dark blue obi; burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the hair; silver metallic pigments on the fan; embossed fabric printing (nuno-me-zuri) on the green underkimono and the background drapery; embossing (kara-zuri) on the paper lantern in the foreground.
Published ca. Meiji 43 (1910) by Akiyama Buemon.
This print has no vertical fold in the middle, meaning that it originally was issued separately and not as part of an orihon (i.e., folding book).
Artist’s name and seal in lower right of the print:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 輝 | kagaya(ku) | shine | |
| 方 | kata | person | Terukata |
Series title in pink cartouche in right margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 江 | e | inlet, bay | |
| 戸 | do | door | Brocade |
| の | no | of | pictures |
| 錦 | nishiki | brocade | of Edo |
Faint publisher’s address and name (from right to left) in middle bottom margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 東 | tō | east | |
| 京 | kyō | capital | |
| 市 | shi | city | Tokyo city, |
| 日 | nichi | sun | |
| 本 | hon | origin | |
| 橋 | hashi | bridge | Nihonbashi |
| 區 | ku | district | 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, |
| 秋 | aki | autumn | |
| 山 | yama | mountain | Akiyama |
| 武 | bu | military | |
| 右 | u | right | |
| エ | ku | artisan | |
| 門 | mon | gate | Buemon |
Very faint printer’s and carver’s name (from right to left) in left bottom margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 印 | in | stamp | |
| 刷 | satsu | Printer: | |
| 山 | yama | mountain | |
| 田 | ta | rice field | Yamada |
| 彫 | ho(ru) | carve | |
| 匠 | shō | artisan | Carver: |
| 宗 | mune | religion | |
| 岡 | oka | hill | Muneoka |
References
- Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
- Newland, Amy Reigle (2021). Printed and painted. The Meiji art of Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920). Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
Provenance: Fuji Arts