About This Print
These small newspaper etoki (picture explanations), were issued four to an ōban-size sheet, as shown below in the print from the collection of Waseda University Library. The top half of the sheet contained the date in a yellow cartouche in the right margin and the bottom half of the sheet contained the publisher and artist information. A number was printed in the red margin between the top two and bottom two sheets. In the case of this collection's two prints, the bottom half of a four image ōban-size sheet, the number eighteen 十八 appears. From extant prints, it appears that these etoki were short-lived, ending with number twenty 二十.
The stories in this collections prints are unread.
image source: Waseda University Library
Call No. 文庫10_08321_0003
新聞画解. 15-16 / 守川周重 筆
36×24cm
明治9年11月24日
Print Details
IHL Catalog | #2437 (right) and #2438 (left) |
Title or Description | Shinbun etoki Number 18 新聞画解 十八 |
Series | Newspaper: Shinbun etoki 新聞画解 |
Artist | Morikawa Chikashige (active 1869 - January 1882); writer of text unknown |
Signature | green and brown cartouches containing signatures: 守川周重筆 Morikawa Chikashige hitsu yellow cartouche on right sheet containing artist's address and birth name: 南本所石原町十八番地 Minami-Honjo Ishihara-chō 18 画工 守川音次郎 Morikawa Otojirō |
Seal | no seal |
Publication Date | 1876 |
Publisher | Komori Sōjirō 小森宗次郎 cartouche on left sheet containing publisher's address and name: 馬喰町四丁目 Bakurochō 4-chome 出版人 小森宗次郎 shupanjin Komori Sōjirō [Marks: pub. ref. 252; seal not shown] |
Carver | unknown |
Impression | excellent |
Colors | excellent |
Condition | good - the two bottom prints from an ōban-size sheet containing four prints/images. |
Genre | ukiyo-e; nishiki-e shinbun |
Miscellaneous | 定價貮銭 price: 2 sen |
Format | |
H x W Paper | IHL Cat. #2437: 6 15/16 x 4 1/2 in. (17.4 x 11.4 cm) IHL Cat. #2438: 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (17.5 x 11.7 cm) |
H x W Image | IHL Cat. #2437: 6 15/16 x 4 1/2 in. (17.4 x 11.4 cm) IHL Cat. #2438: 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (17.5 x 11.7 cm) |
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4/14/2021 created