Meiji prints
| Design: | Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944) | |||||
| Print title: | After the storm | |||||
| Album/series title: | Katei no Hana (Household flowers) | |||||
| Size: | 21.7 x 31.5 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: embossed fabric printing (nuno-me-zuri) on the woman’s kimono; metallic pigments on her collar and obi, and on the needlework tools on the red cushion inside the room.
Published ca. 1907 by Akiyama Buemon.
This print has no vertical fold in the middle, meaning that it originally was issued separately and not as part of an orihon (i.e., folding book).
Artist’s name in lower right of the print:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 秀 | hiide(ru) | excell | |
| 方 | kata | person | Hidekata |
Print title ‘After the Storm’ in left bottom margin.
Series title and print number in light orange cartouche in right margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 家 | ka | house | |
| 庭 | tei | garden | |
| の | no | ’s | |
| 花 | hana | flower | Household flowers, |
| 六 | roku | eight | print number eight |
Publisher’s address and firm name in middle of bottom margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 東 | tō | east | |
| 京 | kyō | capital | |
| 市 | shi | city | Tokyo city, |
| 日 | ni | sun | |
| 本 | hon | origin | |
| 橋 | hashi | bridge | |
| 区 | ku | district | Nihonbashi district, |
| 室 | muro | greenhouse | |
| 町 | machi | quarter | Muro quarter, |
| 三 | san | three | |
| 丁 | chō | house block | |
| 目 | me | count suffix | 3rd house block, |
| 九 | kyū | nine | |
| 番 | ban | number | |
| 地 | chi | earth, land | number 9, |
| 滑 | kotsu | slide | |
| 稽 | kei | think | |
| 堂 | dō | temple | Kokkeidō |
Provenance: Gallery Somei-do