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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
	Print title:	A woman composing a waka*)
	Album/series title:	Senshu no Hana (A thousand types of flowers)
	Size:	21.1 x 31.7 cm (ōban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Special effects: silver mica on background and water of folding screen; silver mica on ink holder; silver metallic pigments on kimono.

Published in Meiji 30 (1897) by Akiyama Buemon.

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 album).

Artist’s name in lower left 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
千	sen	thousand
種	shu	type
の	no	’s	A thousand
花	hana	flower	types of flowers

Publisher’s address and name, and publishing date in left bottom margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
東	tō	east
京	kyō	capital
市	shi	city	Tokyo city,
杲	kō	clear
橋	hashi	bridge
区	ku	district	Kōbashi district,
室	muro	greenhouse
丁	chō	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,
秋	aki	autumn
山	yama	mountain	Akiyama
武	bu	military
右	u	right
エ	ku	artisan
門	mon	gate	Buemon
明	mei	light
治	ji	government
世	sei	era
年	nen	year
月	gatsu	month
日	ka	day
印	in	stamp
刷	satsu	print
臨	rin	confront
写	sha	copy
印	in	stamp
刷	satsu	print
同	dō	same
年	nen	year
月	gatsu	month
日	ka	day
発	hatsu	emit
行	kō	go	Printed and published
人	jin	person	in the Meiji era

This is followed by Kokkeidō publisher seal 20-001, see Marks (2011, p. 58).

For some reason the exact year, month, and day of carving, printing, and publishing are not mentioned on this print ...

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References

• Marks, Andreas (2011). Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

• Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

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

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Provenance: An auction held in April 2013 by the Floating World gallery

^*) A waka is a Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllables in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables each.