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Shin Hanga prints

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	Design:	Masao Ebina (1913 - 1980)
	Title:	Wakana Jō
	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 Genji-mon, the fan, the grasses, and in the water.

Published in 1953 by the Yamada Shoin Company.

Wakana Jō (i.e., The young greens I) is the title of Chapter 34 of the Genji monogatari written by Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11^th century.

Artist’s seal in lower left 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 34 of the Tale of Genji in top right of the print area:

together with the title of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
若	waka	young
菜	na	greens
上	jō	up	The young greens I

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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