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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Masao Ebina (1913 - 1980)
	Title:	Sawarabi
	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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Enlargement

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Special effects: metallic pigments on the white paper slip.

Published in 1953 by the Yamada Shoin Company.

Sawarabi (i.e., The freshly budded ferns) is the title of Chapter 48 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 48 of the Tale of Genji in top right of the print area:

together with the title of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
早	sa	early
蕨	warabi	fern	The freshly budded ferns

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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