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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
	Print title:	Falling cherry blossoms
	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: embossing (kara-zuri) on the cherry blossoms in the background; burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the woman’s hair; silver metallic pigments on the woman’s kimono.

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

Published in 1903 by Akiyama Buemon.

Artist’s name in lower right of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
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

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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.

• Martin, Katherine (2006). Highlights of Japanese printmaking. Part 2: Shin Hanga. New York: Scholten Japanese Art.

• 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: Scholten Japanese Art.