Meiji prints
| Design: | Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921) | |||||
| Print title: | Beauty gazing at the beach | |||||
| Album/series title: | Edo no Nishiki (Brocade pictures of Edo) | |||||
| Size: | 21.1 x 31.6 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: embossed fabric printing (nuno-me-zuri) on the white part of the star shapes on the woman’s kimono; embossing (kara-zuri) on the sea waves.
This print has a vertical fold in the middle, meaning that it originally was part of an orihon (i.e., folding book).
Published ca. Meiji 43 (1910) by Akiyama Buemon.
Artist’s name in lower right of the print:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 池 | ike | pond | |
| 田 | ta | rice field | Ikeda |
| 輝 | kagaya(ku) | shine | |
| 方 | kata | person | Terukata |
Series title in pink cartouche in right margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 江 | e | inlet, bay | |
| 戸 | do | door | Brocade |
| の | no | of | pictures |
| 錦 | nishiki | brocade | of Edo |
Publisher’s address and firm name (from right to left) in middle bottom margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 東 | tō | east | |
| 京 | kyō | capital | |
| 市 | shi | city | Tokyo city, |
| 日 | nichi | sun | |
| 本 | hon | origin | |
| 橋 | hashi | bridge | Nihonbashi |
| 區 | ku | district | 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 |
References
- Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
- Newland, Amy Reigle (2021). Printed and painted. The Meiji art of Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920). Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
Provenance: The Arts and Designs of Japan website of Peter and Lois Gilder.