Meiji prints


  Design: Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908)  
  Album/series title: Imayō Bijin (Modern style beauties)  
  Size: 24.4 x 18.0 cm  
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Toshikata Imayō Bijin Front cover

Enlargement


This is the front cover of Mizuno Toshikata’s Imayō Bijin album published in Meiji 31 (1898) by Akiyama Buemon.

Name of the album and artist on an orange slip on the front cover:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
ima now  
manner  
bi beautiful  
jin person Modern style beauties
       
*) ō answer  
*) ju request By request,
toshi year  
kata person the brush of
hitsu brush Toshikata
       
*) kan complete Complete

References


Provenance: Yagiya Bobongua store

*) With many thanks to Naoko and Shinji Ōba for their help in translating this kanji.

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