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.
Title 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 |
References
Provenance: Yagiya Bobongua store