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| Version 4 copy with signature-seal combination |
菊
kiku
Chrysanthemum
no date i
(arbitrary identification)
ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR THIS DESIGN
Currently Documented Marking Variations (Light Background):
This design is one of several in a small series of garden flowers which Hodo created for Takemura. Although this series was in direct imitation of Maria Gabo's Western Flowers Series, this particular design does not have a direct counterpart in that series.
Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum morifolium, 菊, きく , キク, kiku. At least three unidentified hybrid varieties are shown here.
Related Designs:
| Title-caption: 菊 , kiku, 'chrysanthemum' |
| All Copies: (right margin) |
| Takemura Copyright: 版権所有 竹村秀雄, han ken sho yu Takemura Hideo, ‘printing rights held by Takemura Hideo’. |
| [No copies of Version 1 (lower left margin below date) are currently known] |
| Version 2: (lower right margin below title) |
| [No copies of Version 3: (lower left margin) are currently known] |
| Version 4: (omitted) [illustrated above] |
| Attribution Marking: 蒲堂, Ho-dou signature; 竹村, Take-mura publisher seal |
| Version 2 and version 4 are currently documented only with a signature and seal combination, and no copies without attribution markings are known. |
Currently Documented Marking Variations (Dark Background):
| Attribution Marking: [no signature]; 蒲堂, Ho-dou seal |
| [Because the margins of the only documented copy are not visible, the presence or absence of other typical markings for this design remain to be determined.] |
Design History:
This design is one of several in a small series of garden flowers which Hodo created for Takemura. Although this series was in direct imitation of Maria Gabo's Western Flowers Series, this particular design does not have a direct counterpart in that series.
As of 2024 this is the only known design in this series which has a dark backgournd version.
Because there are almost certainly additional designs which remain to be documented, this series has not yet been assigned sequence numbers. For now this design is arbitrarily labeled with an alphabetic character since there is no publication date available.
Species Illustrated:Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum morifolium, 菊, きく , キク, kiku. At least three unidentified hybrid varieties are shown here.
Related Designs: