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 31.4 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: embossing (kara-zuri) on the collar of the lady on the right; silver metallic pigments on the kimono, obi, and hair ornament of the lady on the left, on the table cloth, and on the decorations on the left grey sliding wall.
Published in Meiji 40 (1907) by Akiyama Buemon.
Artist’s name in lower left of the print:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 秀 | hiide(ru) | excel | |
| 方 | kata | person | Hidekata |
followed by red Hidekata seal reading:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 秀 | hiide(ru) | excel | |
| 方 | kata | person | |
| 女 | onna | woman | Ms. 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 | 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 |
English print title ‘A Slight Token of Esteem’ in left bottom margin.
Provenance: Rare Illustrated Books