Meiji prints
| Design: | Tsugumi Bihō (1868-1912) | |||||
| Print title: | Shell gathering | |||||
| Album/series title: | Azuma Sugata (Images of the East) | |||||
| Size: | 20.9 x 30.1 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: metallic pigments on obi of the two ladies; burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on their hair; embossed fabric printing (nuno-me-zuri) on the lady’s headscarf.
Published ca. Meiji 43 (1910) by Akiyama Buemon.
Artist’s name and red seal in left print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 美 | bi | beautiful | |
| 宝 | hō | treasure | Bihō |
Series title in violet cartouche in right margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 東 | azuma | east | |
| す | su | ||
| が | ga | Images | |
| た | ta | image | of the East |
Publisher’s address and firm name (from right to left) in bottom margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 東 | tō | east | |
| 京 | kyō | capital | Tokyo, |
| 古 | furu | old | |
| 日 | nichi | sun | |
| 本 | hon | origin | old |
| 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 | yū | nine | |
| 番 | ban | number | |
| 地 | chi | earth, land | number 9, |
| 滑 | kotsu | slide | |
| 稽 | kei | think | |
| 堂 | dō | temple | Kokkeidō |
References
- Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (1992). Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900 - 1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
- Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Provenance: Second-hand bookstore Sugimoto Ryoedo in Osaka.