Design:	Kitano Tsunetomi (1880-1947)
	Title:	The heroine Umekawa in ‘Meido no Hikyaku’
	Size:	38.8 x 27.5 cm (dai oban)
	Original woodblock print
	Photography:	Theo Janssen

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Enlargement

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Special effects: subtle gold mica background; silver highlight on hairpin; snowflakes in gofun (powdered seashells).

Published in 1923.

Artist’s seal in top right of the print.

Names of carver and printer in left bottom margin (from right to left):

Character	Translation	Character	Translation
彫	ho(ru)	手	shu
刷	su(ru)	摺	su(ru)
山	Yama	西	Nishi
岸	gushi	村	mura
主	Ka	熊	Kuma
計	zue	吉	kichi

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References

• Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

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

• Tokyo Station Gallery (2003). Kitano Tsunetomi: retrospective. Kitano Tsunetomi ten.

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Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints