Meiji prints
| Design: | Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908) | |||||
| Album/series title: | Ima Yō Bijin (Modern style beauties) | |||||
| Size: | 24.4 x 18.0 cm | |||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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This is the front cover of Mizuno Toshikata’s Ima Yō Bijin album published in Meiji 31 (1898) by Akiyama Buemon.
Name of the album and artist on an orange slip on the front cover:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 今 | ima | now | |
| 様 | yō | manner | |
| 美 | bi | beautiful | |
| 人 | jin | person | Modern style beauties |
| 応*) | ō | answer | |
| 斎*) | sai | purification | |
| 年 | toshi | year | |
| 方 | kata | person | By the brush of |
| 筆 | hitsu | brush | Ōsai Toshikata |
| 完*) | kan | complete | Complete |
References
- Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.
Provenance: Yagiya Bobongua store
*) With many thanks to Naoko and Shinji Ōba for their help in translating this kanji.