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
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Ikeda Terukata Senshu no Hana Table of contents

Enlargement


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

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
ike pond  
ta ricefield  
kagaya(ku) shine  
kata person The brush of
fude brush Ikeda Terukata

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

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
sen thousand  
shu type  
no ’s A thousand
hana flower types of flowers

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

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
moku eye  
roku record Index

Followed by the Japanese titles of the twelve individual prints:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
hatsu begin The beginning
haru spring of the year
       
tsu    
mi   Picking herbs
kusa grass and wildflowers
       
hana flower Cherry blossom
mi view viewing
       
ei composing  
ka classical poem Composing a poem
       
se    
u    
bu iris Irises
       
a    
ji    
sa    
i hydrangea Hydrangea
       
hotaru firefly
ga  
ri hunting Hunting fireflies
       
evening  
su    
zu   Enjoying
mi enjoying the cool air the evening cool
       
aki autumn  
kusa grass Autumn grass
       
un    
sports  
kai meet Sports day
       
deep red  
leaf Autumn leaves
       
yuki snow  
mi view Snow viewing

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

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
kotsu slide  
kei think  
temple Kokkeidō

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

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
aki autumn  
yama mountain Akiyama


References


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.

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