Ikeda Terukata Senshu no Hana Woman washing her hands at a water fountain

Meiji prints

Design:

Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)

Print title:

Woman washing her hands at a water fountain

Album/series title:

Senshu no Hana (A thousand types of flowers)

Size:

21.2 x 31.8 cm (ōban)

Original woodblock print

Photography:

Jacques Commandeur

Special effects: silver metallic pigments on the woman’s obi; embossing (kara-zuri) on the latticework of the round window on the left.

Published in Meiji 30 (1897) by Akiyama Buemon.

This print has a vertical fold in the middle, meaning that it originally was issued as part of an orihon (i.e., folding book).

Artist’s name and red seal in lower left of the print area:

Series title in pink cartouche in right margin:

Publisher’s address and name (from right to left) in middle bottom margin:

References

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

Provenance: The Arts and Designs of Japan website of Peter and Lois Gilder.