Meiji prints
Design: | Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944) | |||||
Print title: | Play | |||||
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 hair ornaments of the two ladies.
Published in Meiji 40 (1907) by Akiyama Buemon.
Artist’s name in lower right 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 grey cartouche in right margin:
Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
家 | ka | house | |
庭 | tei | garden | |
の | no | ’s | |
花 | hana | flower | Household flowers, |
五 | go | five | Five |
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 ‘PLay’ in left bottom margin.
Provenance: Rare Illustrated Books