Meiji prints
| Design: | Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944) | |||||
| Print title: | After School | |||||
| Album/series title: | Katei no Hana (Household flowers) | |||||
| Size: | 21.4 x 31.6 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: silver metallic pigments on the kimono and the book in the right hand of the lady on the left.
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 | |
| 二 | ni | two | Twelve |
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 ‘After School’ in left bottom margin.
Provenance: Rare Illustrated Books