Meiji prints
| Design: | Tsugumi Bihō (1868-1912) | |||||
| Album/series title: | Azuma Sugata (Images of the East) | |||||
| Size: | 24.2 x 17.9 cm | |||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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This is the front cover of Tsugumi Bihō’s Azuma Sugata album published ca. Meiji 43 (1910) by Akiyama Buemon.
Name of the album and artist on a red slip on the front cover:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 東 | azuma | east | |
| す | su | ||
| が | ga | Images | |
| た | ta | image | of the East |
| 鶫 | tsugumi | thrush | |
| 美 | bi | beautiful | |
| 宝 | hō | treasure | By the brush of |
| 筆 | hitsu | brush | Tsugumi Bihō |
| 完 | kan | complete | Complete |
References
- Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (1992). Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900 - 1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
- Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.
Provenance: Second-hand bookstore Sugimoto Ryoedo in Osaka.