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 ca. Meiji 43 (1910) 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.