Meiji prints
| Design: | Yōshū Chikanobu (1838-1912) | |||||
| Print title: | Backyard cherry tree | |||||
| Album/series title: | Azuma Fūzoku (Customs of the East) | |||||
| Size: | 21.1 x 30.2 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the hair of the woman and the girl; embossing (kara-zuri) on the woman’s collar and obi; silver metallic pigments on her hair ornament.
Artist’s signature in the bottom left print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 楊 | yō | leaf | |
| 洲 | shū | discipline | |
| 周 | chika | circumference | |
| 延 | nobu | prolong | Yōshū Chikanobu |
Series/album title and print number in the orange cartouche in the right margin of the print:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 安 | an | peace | |
| 津 | tsu | harbor, ferry | |
| 末 | matsu | end | |
| 風 | fū | style | |
| 俗 | zoku | customs | Customs of the East, |
| 二 | ni | two | number two |
References
- Coats, Bruce A. (2006). Chikanobu. Modernity and nostalgia in Japanese prints. Leiden: Hotei publishing.
- Gary’s Chikanobu website.
- Newland, Amy Reigle (2021). Printed and painted. The Meiji art of Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920). Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
Provenance: The website of Davidson Galleries