Meiji prints
| Design: | Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921) | |||||
| Print title: | Tediousness | |||||
| Album/series title: | Edo no Nishiki (Brocade pictures of Edo) | |||||
| Size: | 20.9 x 31.6 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: silver mica on background of the folding screen; burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the woman’s hair; embossing (kara-zuri) on her collar.
Published ca. Meiji 43 (1910) by Akiyama Buemon.
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 |
| 江 | e | inlet, bay | |
| 戸 | do | door | Brocade |
| の | no | of | pictures |
| 錦 | nishiki | brocade | of Edo |
Publisher’s address and 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. |
| 秋 | aki | autumn | |
| 山 | yama | mountain | Akiyama |
| 武 | bu | military | |
| 右 | u | right | |
| エ | ku | artisan | |
| 門 | mon | gate | Buemon |
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: Second-hand bookstore Sugimoto Ryoedo in Osaka.