Edo prints
| Design: | Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | |||||
| Title: | Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge | |||||
| Size: | 30 x 21 cm | |||||
| Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Originally published around 1803 by publisher Tsuruya Kiemon.
This reproduction published in 1917 by publisher Tosho Kanko-kai.
Title on the book cover:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 絵 | e | picture | Picture book with simultaneous views of both banks of the Sumida River |
| 本 | hon | book | |
| 隅 | sumi | corner | |
| 田 | da | rice field | |
| 川 | kawa | river | |
| 両 | ryō | both | |
| 岸 | gan | bank | |
| 一 | ichi | one | |
| 覧 | ran | see | |
| 下 | ge | bottom | Third book |
The fifteen prints in this third picture book are shown below. Each image can be clicked (and then clicked again) to obtain a larger (and even larger) view of the corresponding print. These images - again intended to be read in a row wise fashion from the bottom right to the top left of the following table - continue the panoramic view of the banks of the Sumida river depicted in the first and second book.
The Japanese text ‘‘大正六年一月十五日’’ in the first column from the right in the colophon on End page 1 translates into ‘‘Printed in Taishō the sixth year, the first month, the fifteenth day’’ (i.e., on January 15, 1917); the Japanese text ‘‘一月二十日発行’’ in the second column from the right translates into ‘‘Published in the first month, the twentieth day’’ (i.e., on January 20, 1917). These are the printing and publishing dates of the Taishō era edition of these three volumes.
Publisher Tosho Kanko-kai (圖書刊行會) of the 1917 edition is mentioned in the bottom tenth column from the right in the colophon on End page 1, as well as at the bottom of the first column from the left in the Back matter contained on End page 2.
For more information on each one of these fifteen prints please visit my Hokusai Ehon Sumidagawa website here.
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - End page 2 |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - End page 1 |
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 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 15: The end of the year at Yoshiwara (continued) |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 14: The end of the year at Yoshiwara |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 13: Farms at San’ya (continued) |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 12: Farms at San’ya |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 11: Bell and drum of Mokuboji temple |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 10: Divine lantern at Massaki |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 9: Plovers on the Sumida river |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 8: Farms at Hashiba |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 7: Evening household smoke at Imado |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 6: Pheasants and pine at Shirahige |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 5: Autumn colours at Matsuchiyama (continued) |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 4: Autumn colours at Matsuchiyama |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 3: Winterly weather at Hanakawado |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 2: Late autumn rain at Mukōjima |
 Ehon Sumida Gawa Ryōgan Ichiran Ge - 1: Sunset at Sensōji temple |
References
- Forrer, Matthi (2010). Hokusai. Munich: Prestel Verlag.
- Forrer, Matthi (2012). Hokusai: Coup d’oeil sur les deux rives du fleuve Sumida, suivi de: Le fleuve Yodo. Paris: Editions Hazan.
- Hillier, Jack (1980). The art of Hokusai in book illustration. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- Nagata, Seiji (1999). Hokusai. Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
- Sadamura, Tadashi (1987). Ima, Hokusai ga yomigaeru Ukiyoe hanga ga suriagaru made. Publisher: Kawade Shobo Shinsha.
Provenance: The legacy of Colonel Howard Ayers, attaché to General Douglas MacArthur during World War II