Meiji prints
| Design: | Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921) | |||||
| Print title: | Girl with love letter | |||||
| 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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Special effects: embossing (kara-zuri) on the noren curtain; silver metallic pigments on the woman’s hair pins, obi, and river displayed on her kimono sleeve.
Published ca. Meiji 43 (1910) 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 book).
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 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 |
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: Ross Walker’s Ohmi Gallery