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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Masao Ebina (1913 - 1980)
	Title:	Niou Miya*)
	Series title:	Genji monogatari (Tale of Genji)
	Size:	20.8 x 29.9 cm (chūban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Published in 1953 by the Yamada Shoin Company.

Niou Miya is the title of Chapter 42 of the Genji monogatari written by Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11^th century.

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

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

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

Genji-mon of Chapter 42 of the Tale of Genji in top right of the print area:

together with the title of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
匂	niou	to smell (good)
宮	miya	palace	The Perfumed Prince

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References

• John Fiorillo’s Genji-mon webpage.

• The complete set of 54 prints can be seen on Ross Walker’s Ohmi Gallery here.

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Provenance: Serge Astières

^*) With many thanks to Serge Astières for sending me this print as a gift.