Mizuno Hidekata Table of contents

Meiji prints

Design:

Mizuno Hidekata (1875-1944)

Print title:

Title page/Table of contents

Album/series title:

Katei no Hana (Household flowers)

Size:

21.3 x 30.4 cm (ōban)

Original woodblock print

Photography:

Jacques Commandeur

This print displays the title and table of contents of the Katei no Hana album, including the Japanese titles of the twelve prints^*).

Series title and table of contents (from right to left):

The two short columns on the bottom read from right to left:

the location and firm name of Akiyama Buemon.

This is followed by two red seals. The first seal contains the name of the publisher:

and the second the name of the carver:

The full name of the carver is Muneoka Shinkichi (1862-1929).

References

Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.

Newland, Amy Reigle (2021). Printed and painted. The Meiji art of Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920). Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

^*) With many thanks to Naoko and Shinji Ōba for their help in translating all the Japanese text in this album.