SUMMARY: I agree that print "A" is a first edition. Subsequent dating of prints "B" and "C" is more difficult based on the carver or printer. Of more importance is the Publisher's cartouche. I would say that any print with the Doi Teiichi cartouche would have been
done before Doi Teiichi died. After that the print cartouches contained Doi Hanga Ten which continued until Doi Eiichi took over and used his seal. Now Doi Eiichi is dead. What now? Are they still printing today, 12 days from the year 2000? Perhaps Dr. Grund should revisit Mrs. Doi Eiichi?
Contributed by ukiyo-e scholar Philip H. Roach, Jr., moonlighting/slumming here for the noble but doomed purpose of helping our members combat the Attention Deficit from which we Shin Hanga lightweights apparently suffer.
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