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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Tsuchiya Kōitsu (1870-1949)
	Title:	Aki Miyajima
	Size:	36.3 x 16.7 cm (mitsugiri)
	Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Artist’s name and red Shin seal in the bottom right-hand corner of the print era:

in which the three kanji read:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
光	kō	light
逸	itsu	diverge	Kōitsu
真	shin	true	true

Print title in the right margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
空	a(keru)	be unoccupied
藝	guyun	art
宮	miya	shrine
島	shima	island	Empty art shrine island

Followed by the original publishing date:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
昭	shō	clear
和	wa	peace
十	jū	ten
一	ichi	one
年	nen	year
初	haji(me)	beginning	Made in
夏	natsu	summer	the Shōwa era,
の	no	’s	the 11th year (i.e., 1936),
作	saku	make	early summer

Embossed names of the current and original publisher, and names of the original carver and current printer in left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
浅	asa	shallow
草	kusa	grass	Asakusa
木	moku	wood
版	han	block
館	kan	building	Mokuhankan
土	do	earth
井	i	a well	Doi
版	han	printing block
画	ga	picture
店	ten	shop	Hangaten
彫	hori	carver
ハ	ha
ラ	ra
ダ	da		Carver: Harada
摺	suri	printer
大	ō	large
橋	hashi	bridge	Printer: Ōhashi

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References

• Ross Walker’s Kōitsu website

• Walker, Ross, and Doi, Toshikazu (2008). The Catalogue Raisonné of Tsuchiya Koitsu. Meiji to Shin-Hanga, Watercolours to Woodblocks. Otsu City, Shiga, Japan: Ohmi Gallery Publishing.

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Provenance: Mokuhankan