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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
	Print title:	Woman attaching a paper strip to a maple branch
	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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Enlargement

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Special effects: embossed fabric printing (nuno-me-zuri) on the white of the curtain in the background.

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, telephone number 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
電	den	electricity
話	wa	conversation
本	hon	origin
局	kyoku	office
五	go	five
一	ichi	one
四	shi	four	Telephone main
四	shi	four	office: 5144
滑	kotsu	slide
稽	kei	think
堂	dō	temple	Kokkeidō

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References

• Hokkaidō Obihiro Museum Of Art (1998). Meiji no ukiyo-e hanga (Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the Meiji period). Hokkaidō: Hokkaidō Obihiro Museum Of Art and Hokkaidō Shinbun Press.

• 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.

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