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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Yamamoto Shōun (1870-1965)
	Print title:	Playing house
	Album/series title:	Kodomo Asobi (Children playing)
	Size:	20.4 x 30.0 cm (ōban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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This print has no vertical fold in the middle, indicating that it was issued separately and not as part of an orihon (i.e., folding book).

Artist’s signature and red Shōun seal in bottom right print area:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
昇	shō	rise
雲	un	cloud	Shōun

Series title in right margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
子	ko	child
供	tomo	serve
あ	a
そ	so
び	bi	play	Children playing

Followed by print title:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
ま	ma
ま	ma
ご	go
と	to		Playing house

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References

• Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (1992). Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900 - 1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

• Ōta Memorial Museum of Art (2006). Yamamoto Shoun. Special Exhibition Collection of the Museum of Art, Kochi. Tokyo: Ōta Memorial Museum of Art.

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Provenance: Artelino