Meiji prints
| Design: | Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908) | |||||
| Print title and number: | 12 - Winter - A walk with a pet dog | |||||
| Album/series title: | Mitsui Gonomi Miyako no Nishiki (Brocades of the capital. The seasons and their fashions.) | |||||
| Size: | 21.2 x 30.0 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: silver metallic pigments on the handbag of the lady on the left and the obi and the hair ornament of the lady on the right; beautiful burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the kimono of the lady on the left.
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. 12 - Winter - ‘A walk with a pet dog’.
Followed by the text: Specially printed on the original designs by Mitsui.
References
- Hokkaidō Obihiro Museum Of Art (1998). Meiji no ukiyo-e hanga (Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the Meiji period). Hokkaidō: Hokkaidō Obihiro Museum Of Art and Hokkaidō Shinbun Press.
- 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.
Provenance: White Fox Rare Books