Meiji prints
| Design: | Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921) | |||||
| Album/series title: | Edo no Nishiki (Brocade pictures of Edo) | |||||
| Size: | 24.6 x 18.2 cm | |||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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This is the front cover of Ikeda Terukata’s Edo no Nishiki album published in 1903 by Akiyama Buemon.
Album and series title in white slip on cover of the album:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 江 | e | inlet, bay | |
| 戸 | do | door | Brocade |
| の | no | of | pictures |
| 錦 | nishiki | brocade | of Edo |
References
- Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
- Newland, Amy Reigle (2021). Printed and painted. The Meiji art of Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920). Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
Provenance: Second-hand bookstore Sugimoto Ryoedo in Osaka.