Design:	Kajita Hanko (1870-1917)
	Title:	Plum
	Size:	29.9 x 21.9 cm (approximately aiban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

---

Enlargement

---

Published in 1908 as a kuchi-e in the magazine Bungei Kurabu, vol. 14, no. 3.

Red artist’s seal with characters of the artist’s name in reversed order in left print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
半	han	half
古	ko	old	Hanko

---

Literature:

Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (2000). Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Reflections of Meiji culture. University of Hawai’i Press.

Newland, Amy Reigle, ed. (2004). Printed to Perfection. Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, in association with Sackler Gallery/Smithsonian Institution.

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

Yamada, Nanako (2005). Survey of Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Tokyo: Bunsei Shoin Booksellers Co., Ltd.

---

Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints