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Meiji prints

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	Design:	Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908)
	Print title and number:	11 - Winter - A snowy morning
	Album/series title:	Mitsui Gonomi Miyako no Nishiki (Brocades of the capital. The seasons and their fashions.)
	Size:	20.1 x 30.1 cm (ōban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Jacques Commandeur

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Enlargement

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Artist’s name in lower right of the print:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
年	toshi	year
方	kata	person	Toshikata

Followed by red 賞 (shō, award) and 雪 (setsu, snow) seals.

Series title in purple cartouche in right margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
三	mitsu	three
井	i	a well
好	kono(mu)	like
都	miyako	capital
の	no	’s
に	ni
し	shi		Mitsui Gonomi -
き	ki	brocade	Brocades of the capital

Publisher’s address and name in bottom left margin:

Character	Reading	Meaning	Translation
東	tō	east
京	kyō	capital
市	shi	city	Tokyo city,
日	ni	sun
本	hon	origin
橋	hashi	bridge
区	ku	district	Nihonbashi 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

Followed by red 滑稽堂 (Kokkeidō) publisher and 印刷山田 (insatsu Yamada, printing: Yamada) printer seals.

English series and print title in red in bottom margin reading: The seasons and their fashions. 11 - Winter - ‘A snowy morning’.

Followed by the text: Specially printed on the original designs by Mitsui.

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References

• Narazaki, Muneshige, ed. (1990). Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western collections. The Robert O. Muller Collection. Tokyo: Kodansha International.

• Ōta Memorial Museum of Art (1993). Meiji Taishō bijin hangaten. (A woodblock print exhibition of Meiji-Taishō beauties.) Tokyo: Ōta Memorial Museum of Art.

• Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.

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Provenance: White Fox Rare Books