Meiji prints
| Design: | Kaburaki Kiyokata (1878-1972) | |||||
| Title: | Light snow | |||||
| Size: | 29.7 x 21.7 cm (kikuban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Theo Janssen |
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Special effects: beautiful burnishing (sho-men-zuri) 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 |
References
- Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (2000). Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Reflections of Meiji culture. University of Hawai’i Press.
- Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.
- Yamada, Nanako (2005, p.265). Survey of Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Tokyo: Bunsei Shoin Booksellers Co., Ltd.
Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints