Edo prints
| Design: | Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825) | |||||
| Title: | Early winter garden (front) | |||||
| 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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Originally published by Ibasen in 1822. This edition from newly cut blocks was published by Yūyūdō in 1975.
On this set of Toyokuni prints Mokuhankan mentions “Fan prints are often on one side, but this series is unique - the design of the front and back sides of the fan are fused together, and part of the figures are overlapped on both sides to create the illusion of three-dimensionality when you spin the fan around and around.”
Artist’s signature in right print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 豊 | toyo | wealthy | |
| 国 | kuni | country | Picture by |
| 画 | ga | picture | Toyokuni |
Series and print title in left print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 今 | ima | now | |
| 様 | yō | door | |
| 十 | jū | ten | |
| 二 | ni | two | |
| ヵ | ka | place | Twelve months |
| 月 | getsu | month | of current fashion |
| 初 | hatsu | early | |
| 冬 | fuyu | winter | |
| の | no | ’s | |
| 園 | en | garden | Early winter garden |
Yūyūdō publisher seal in lower left margin.
Yūyūdō publisher seal followed by names of the carver and printer of this edition in the lower right margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 彫 | hori | carver | Carver: |
| 小 | ko | small | |
| 池 | ike | pond | |
| 茂 | shigeru | grow thick | Koike Shigeru |
| 摺 | su(ru) | rub | Printer: |
| 遠 | en | distant | |
| 藤 | dō | wisteria | |
| 忠 | tada | loyalty | |
| 雄 | o | leader | Endō Tadao |
Provenance: Mokuhankan