Shin Hanga prints
| Design: | Kitano Tsunetomi (1880-1947) | |||||
| Title: | The heroine Umekawa in ‘Meido no Hikyaku’ | |||||
| Size: | 38.8 x 27.5 cm (dai ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Theo Janssen |
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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 |
References
- Newland, Amy Reigle, and Shinji, Hamanaka (2000). The female image. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.
- Stephens, Amy Reigle (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.
Provenance: Chris Uhlenbeck’s Hotei Japanese Prints