Shin Hanga prints


  Design: Masao Ebina (1913 - 1980)  
  Title: Azumaya  
  Series title: Genji monogatari (Tale of Genji)  
  Size: 20.9 x 30.0 cm (chūban)  
  Original woodblock print    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Masao Ebina Azumaya

Enlargement


Special effects: metallic pigments on the Genji-mon and on the kimono of the lady.

Published in 1953 by the Yamada Shoin Company.

Azumaya (i.e., The Eastern house) is the title of Chapter 50 of the Genji monogatari written by Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century.

Artist’s seal in lower left of the print area:

Masao Ebina Seal

in which the kanji read (from right to left):

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
masa(ni) just  
otto husband Masao

Genji-mon of Chapter 50 of the Tale of Genji in top right of the print area:

Genji-mon chapter 50 Genji monogatari

together with the title of the print:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
azuma east  
ya house The Eastern house


References


Provenance: Serge Astières

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