Meiji prints
| Design: | Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944) | |||||
| Album/series title: | Katei no Hana (Household flowers) | |||||
| Size: | 24.1 x 17.8 cm | |||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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This is the front cover of Mizuno Hidekata’s Katei no Hana album published in Meiji 40 (1907) by Akiyama Buemon.
Name of the album and artist on a red slip on the front cover:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 家 | ka | house | |
| 庭 | tei | garden | |
| の | no | ’s | |
| 花 | hana | flower | Household flowers |
| 市 | ichi | town | |
| 川 | kawa | river | |
| 秀 | hii(deru) | excel | |
| 方 | kata | person | By the brush of |
| 筆 | hitsu | brush | Ichikawa Hidekata |
| 完 | kan | complete | Complete |
Provenance: Rare Illustrated Books