Shin Hanga prints
| Design: | Kawarazaki Shōdō (1889-1973) | |||||
| Title: | Irises | |||||
| Size: | 36.4 x 24.4 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Originally published by Unsōdō in 1954, this is a later publication by the same publisher.
Artist’s seal in bottom right print area:
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The kanji in this seal read:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 奨 | shō | encourage | |
| 堂 | dō | hall | Shōdō |
Print title in top left margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 花 | hana | flower | |
| 菖 | shō | iris | |
| 蒲 | bu | cattail | Irises |
Names of the publisher, printer and carver in bottom left margin:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 芸 | un | art | |
| 艸 | sō | grass | |
| 堂 | dō | hall | Unsōdō |
| 摺 | suri | printer | Printer: |
| 新 | shin | new | |
| 味 | mi | flavour | Shinmi |
| 彫 | hori | carver | Carver: |
| 長 | naga | leader | |
| 島 | shima | island | Nagashima |
Watermark in bottom left margin of the paper with the kanji 芸 (i.e., gei, meaning ‘craft’).
References
- Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako (1992). Guide to modern Japanese woodblock prints: 1970-1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
Provenance: the Unsōdō shop in Kyoto