Meiji prints
| Design: | Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944) | |||||
| Print title: | The School Girl | |||||
| Album/series title: | Katei no Hana (Household flowers) | |||||
| Size: | 21.4 x 31.7 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: embossed fabric printing (nuno-me-zuri) and silver metallic pigments on the kimono and on the blue strips of the bamboo curtains.
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 orange cartouche in right margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 家 | ka | house | |
| 庭 | tei | garden | |
| の | no | ’s | |
| 花 | hana | flower | Household flowers, |
| 七 | shichi | seven | Seven |
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 ‘The School Girl’ in left bottom margin.
Provenance: Rare Illustrated Books