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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921)
	Print title:	Two ladies by a river watching the full moon
	Album/series title:	Senshu no Hana (A thousand types of flowers)
	Size:	21.2 x 31.7 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 kimono of both ladies.

Published in Meiji 30 (1897) 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 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

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

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

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Provenance: The website of Davidson Galleries