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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Ishii Hakutei (1882-1958)
	Title:	Shibaura
	Series title:	Twelve views of Tokyo
	Size:	41.8 x 26.8 cm (dai ōban)
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Special effects: fine embossing (kara-zuri) on the woman’s obi.

Originally published in ca. 1914-1917 by Watanabe Shōzaburō.

This print is a later edition, published by Ishu Kankokai around the 1960-1970s.

Series title in red cartouche in upper left:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
東	tō	east
京	kyō	capital
十	jū	ten
二	ni	two	Twelve views
景	kei	view	of Tokyo

Followed by print title:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
芝	shiba	lawn
う	u		Shibaura (a district
ら	ra		of Minato ward in Tokyo)

Artist’s signature in lower right of print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
柏	haku	oak
亭	tei	restaurant
筆	hitsu	writing brush	Brush of Hakutei

Followed by a red gourd-shaped seal with the name of the original carver:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
凡	bon	ordinary
骨	kotsu	bone
刀	tō	knife	Knife of Bonkotsu

Name of editor in left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
監	kan	keep watch over
修	shū	master	Editor:
文	bun	text
学	gaku	science
博	haku	extensive	doctor of
士	shi	scholar	literature
楢	nara	oak
崎	saki	cape
宗	shū	religion	Narazaki
重	shige	heavy	Muneshige

Red publisher’s moneybag seal in lower left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
版	han	edition
元	gan	origin
検	ken	inspection
印	in	seal	Publisher’s seal:
遺珠刊行会			Ishu Kankokai

Followed by names of printer and carver of this later edition in lower left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
摺	suri	printer
師	shi	master	Printer:
渡	wata(ru)	cross
辺	-be	vicinity
義	gi	justice	Watanabe
明	aki(raka)	clear	Yoshiaki
彫	hori	carver
師	shi	master	Carver:
小	ko-	little
池	ike	pond	Koike
茂	shige(ru)	grow thick	Shigeru

Watermark with characters 山荘 (i.e., sansō, which translates into ‘‘mountain villa’’) in lower left margin.

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References

• Martin, Katherine (2006). Highlights of Japanese printmaking. Part 2: Shin Hanga. New York: Scholten Japanese Art.

• Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

• Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

• Ōta Memorial Museum of Art (1993). Meiji Taishō bijin hangaten. (A woodblock print exhibition of Meiji-Taishō beauties.) Tokyo: Ōta Memorial Museum of Art.

• Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.

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Provenance: The Partner Shop of Shingo Ueda on the Mokuhankan website of David Bull