Meiji prints
| Design: | Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908) | |||||
| Album/series title: | Imayō Bijin (Modern style beauties) | |||||
| Size: | 24.4 x 18.0 cm | |||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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This is the front cover of Mizuno Toshikata’s Imayō Bijin album published in Meiji 31 (1898) by Akiyama Buemon.
Name of the album and artist on an orange slip on the front cover*):
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 今 | ima | now | |
| 様 | yō | manner | |
| 美 | bi | beautiful | |
| 人 | jin | person | Modern style beauties |
| 応 | ō | answer | |
| 需 | ju | request | By request, |
| 年 | toshi | year | |
| 方 | kata | person | the brush of |
| 筆 | hitsu | brush | Toshikata |
| 完 | kan | complete | Complete |
References
- This page of the Mokuhankan Collection of David Bull.
- Newland, Amy Reigle (2021). Printed and painted. The Meiji art of Ogata Gekkō (1859-1920). Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
- Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.
Provenance: Yagiya Bobongua store
*) With many thanks to Naoko and Shinji Ōba for their help in translating the kanji on this cover.