Ikeda Terukata Senshu no Hana Table of contents

Meiji prints

Design:

Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)

Print title:

Title page/Table of contents

Album/series title:

Senshu no Hana (A thousand types of flowers)

Size:

20.9 x 30.3 cm (ōban)

Original woodblock print

Photography:

Jacques Commandeur

This print displays the title page and table of contents of the Senshu no Hana album, including the titles of the twelve prints.^*)

Name of the artist in the first column on the right in the red square

Followed by the series title in the second column from the right:

In the first column from the right in the white/yellowish square is the word Mokuroku (translating into ‘Index’:)

Followed by the Japanese titles of the twelve individual prints:

And the last column from the right contains the firm name of the publisher:

Followed by a red seal with the name of the publisher:

References

Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints

^*) With many thanks to Naoko and Shinji Ōba for helping me with the translation of the text in this print.