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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
	Print title:	Woman smoking at a roadside teashop
	Album/series title:	Edo no Nishiki (Brocade pictures of Edo)
	Size:	20.9 x 31.7 cm (ōban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Special effects: silver metallic pigments on the blue obi and pipe; burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the hair, collar and black obi; embossed fabric printing (nuno-me-zuri) on the pink and white curtains and on the white and blue cloth behind the lady; embossing (kara-zuri) on the wooden bench.

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 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
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

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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.

• Riccar Art Museum (1982). 近代日本美人画展 (pronounced as Kindai Nihon Bijinga Ten and translating into Exhibition of modern Japanese beauties). Tokyo: Riccar Art Museum.

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Provenance: The website of Lella & Gianni Morra