Design:	Kaburaki Kiyokata (1878-1973)
	Title:	Light snow
	Size:	29.7 x 21.7 cm (approximately aiban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

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Enlargement

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Special effects: burnishing on hair.

Published in 1915 as a kuchi-e for part three of a novel written by Kikuchi Yūhō (1870-1947).

Artist’s name in right print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
清	kiyo	pure
方	kata	person	Kiyokata

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References

• Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (2000). Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Reflections of Meiji culture. University of Hawai’i Press.

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

• Yamada, Nanako (2005). Survey of Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Tokyo: Bunsei Shoin Booksellers Co., Ltd.

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Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints