Meiji prints
| Design: | Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944) | |||||
| Print title: | A slight token of esteem | |||||
| Album/series title: | Katei no Hana (Household flowers) | |||||
| Size: | 21.6 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 collar of the lady in the pink kimono; metallic pigments on the kimono, obi and hair ornament of the lady in the blue kimono, on the flowers decorating the red cloth covering the box, and on the bamboo shoots decorating the grey sliding door on the left of 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 |
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, |
| 十 | jū | ten | |
| 一 | ichi | one | print number eleven |
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: The website of Davidson Galleries