Catalog record · 目録番号 56791

Waka Ebisu

龢謌夷

Artist / 作者: Kitagawa Utamaro喜多川歌麿
Date / 年代: 1789
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital image / 画像: 750 × 901 px
Published by / 公開者: 森川ミドリ

Catalog note / 解説

Illustrated book, folding album, colour woodblock print. 1 vol. Sixty poems celebrating coming of spring by sixty poets on five double pages, and five illustrations by Utamaro of New Year scenes. Covers: Original, dark blue, painted with horizontal cloud bands, grasses and pine shoots. Title slips: (missing, originally pasted in top left corner of cover). Contents: 12 leaves: 1 double-page preface, 10 double pages alternating illustrations and poems, 1 double-page postscript and colophon. Illustrations: New Year at court (Kyutei no shogatsu); New Year in a samurai mansion (Buke no shogatsu); Delivering New Year gifts in the snow (Setchu no nenrei); New Year street-performers (Dai-kagura); P…

Image record / 画像情報

BM · 1789 (New Year) · bm

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