Meiji prints
| Design: | Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908) | |||||
| Title: | Jakkō-in temple | |||||
| Size: | 22.4 x 29.8 cm (kikuban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Theo Janssen |
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Special effects: burnishing (sho-men-zuri) on the woman’s hair, and silver metallic pigments on her kimono.
This kuchi-e was published in 1901 in the magazine Bungei Kurabu, vol. 7, no. 13, as a frontispiece to the novel ‘Jakkō-in temple’ by Miyake Seiken.
Red seal with artist’s name in right print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 年 | toshi | year | |
| 方 | kata | person | Toshikata |
References
- Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako (2000, p.44). Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Reflections of Meiji culture. University of Hawai’i Press.
- Stephens, Amy Reigle (1993, p.93). The New Wave: Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection. London: Bamboo Publishing.
- Yamada, Nanako (2005, p.347). Survey of Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints. Tokyo: Bunsei Shoin Booksellers Co., Ltd.
Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints