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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
	Print title:	Spring day
	Album/series title:	Edo no Nishiki (Brocade pictures of Edo)
	Size:	21.1 x 31.8 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 woman’s headscarf; burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on her hair and on the black parts of her kimono.

Published in 1903 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

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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: Second-hand bookstore Sugimoto Ryoedo in Osaka.