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Meiji prints

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

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Enlargement

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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

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References

• Hickey, Gary, and Newland, Amy Reigle (2012). Novel images: kuchi-e from the Clough collection at the National Library of Australia. Andon, no. 93, pp.5-18.

• Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (2000, p.134). Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Reflections of Meiji culture. University of Hawai’i Press.

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

• 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.

• Newland, Amy Reigle, ed. (2005). The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints (2 volumes). Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.

• Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993, p.96). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.

• Yamada, Nanako (2005, p.246). Survey of Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Tokyo: Bunsei Shoin Booksellers Co., Ltd.

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Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints