Meiji prints


  Design: Ikeda Shōen (1886-1917)  
  Print title: Title page/Table of contents  
  Album/series title: Yaekasumi (Multilayered mist)  
  Size: 21.0 x 30.7 cm  
  Original woodblock print    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Ikeda Shoen Yaekasumi Title page

Enlargement


This print displays the title and table of contents of the Yaekasumi album, including the Japanese titles of the twelve individual prints*).

Artist name in first column from the right, followed by series title in second column, the word Index in third column, and the Japanese titles of the twelve individual prints in the next twelve columns:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
sakaki sacred Shinto tree  
hara meadow  
shō plantain  
en garden  
nyō   By the female brush of
hitsu brush Sakakibara Shōen
       
ya    
he    
ka    
su    
mi   Multilayered mist
       
moku eye  
roku record Index
       
to    
mo    
da    
chi   Friends
       
yu    
ki    
no    
yu    
fu    
be   Evening snow
       
ka    
e    
ri    
mi    
chi   On the way home
       
ha    
ru    
no    
no    
be   Spring field
       
shō    
ka   Singing
       
ha    
ru    
sa    
me   Spring rain
       
wa    
ta    
do    
no   Roofed corridor
       
a    
chi    
sa    
i Hydrangea
       
na    
tsu    
no    
a    
shi    
ta   One summer morning
       
tsu    
ki    
no    
yo    
wa   Moonlit night
       
shi    
ya    
se    
i   Sketching from life
       
na    
re    
ha    
to   At ease with pigeons

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

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
kotsu slide  
kei think  
temple Kokkeidō
azusa woodblock printing woodblock printing

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

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
a    
ki    
ya    
man ten thousand Akiyama

And a red seal with the name of the carver:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
ho(ru) carve  
shō artisan Carver:
mune religion  
oka hill Muneoka

References


Provenance: Artelino

*) With many thanks to Naoko and Shinji Ōba for their help in reading and translating all these characters.

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