Meiji prints
Design: | Ikeda Shōen (1886-1917) | |||||
Print title: | Careless Meditation | |||||
Album/series title: | Yaekasumi (Multilayered mist) | |||||
Size: | 21.0 x 30.4 cm | |||||
Original woodblock print | ||||||
Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: silver metallic pigments on hair ornament, obi, butterflies on the kimono, and bamboo shoots on the fan.
Artist’s signature and two red artist’s seals with the name of the artist in left print area:
Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
蕉 | shō | plantain | |
園 | en | garden | Shōen |
Series title in orange cartouche in right margin:
Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
や | ya | ||
い | i | ||
か | ka | ||
す | su | ||
み | mi | Multilayered mist |
Publisher’s address and firm name (from right to left) in middle of bottom margin:
Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
東 | tō | east | |
京 | kyō | capital | |
市 | shi | city | Tokyo city, |
日 | ni | sun | |
本 | hon | origin | |
橋 | hashi | bridge | |
區 | ku | district | Nihonbashi district, |
室 | muro | greenhouse | |
町 | machi | quarter | Muro quarter, |
三 | san | three | |
丁 | chō | house block | |
目 | me | count suffix | 3rd house block, |
九 | kyū | nine | |
番 | ban | number | |
地 | chi | earth, land | number 9, |
滑 | kotsu | slide | |
稽 | kei | think | |
堂 | dō | temple | Kokkeidō |
English print title in red in bottom margin reading: Careless meditation.
References
Provenance: Artelino