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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
	Print title:	Lady watching irises
	Album/series title:	Senshu no Hana (A thousand types of flowers)
	Size:	21.1 x 31.8 cm (ōban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Published in Meiji 30 (1897) by Akiyama Buemon.

This print has a vertical fold in the middle since it is part of an orihon (i.e., folding album).

Artist’s name in lower right of the print area:

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

Publishing date and publisher’s address and name in lower left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
明	mei	light
治	ji	government	Meiji era,
十十十	san jū	thirty
年	nen	year	the 30th year (= 1897)
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
発	hatsu	emit
行	kō	go	Printed and published
人	jin	person	in 1897
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

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

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References

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

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

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Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints