Edo prints


  Design: Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825)  
  Title: Early winter garden (back)  
  Series title: Twelve months of current fashion  
  Size: 22.5 x 35.2 cm (ōban)  
  Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Toyokuni Early Winter Back

Enlargement


Originally published by Ibasen in 1822. This edition from newly cut blocks was published by Yūyūdō in 1975.

Yūyūdō publisher seal in lower left margin of the print.

Yūyūdō publisher seal followed by names of the carver and printer of this edition in the lower right margin of the print:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
hori carver Carver:
ko small  
ike pond  
shigeru grow thick Koike Shigeru
       
su(ru) rub Printer:
en distant  
wisteria  
tada loyalty  
o leader Endō Tadao


Provenance: Mokuhankan

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