Catalog record · 目録番号 57079

Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects

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Artist / 作者: Kitagawa Utamaro喜多川歌麿
Date / 年代: 1788
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / bm
Digital image / 画像: 750 × 668 px
Published by / 公開者: 星野アカリ

Catalog note / 解説

Illustrated book, print. Colour woodblock-printed. 2 volumes. Fifteen compositions, each containing plants, two types of insect and two poems. Covers: Original, buff-coloured, printed with brown Chinese bellflower and seven treasure pattern, embossed textile weave. Title slips: Original, printed with Ehon mushi erabi, jo, ge on pink slips printed with crimson birds and tendril pattern, pasted in top centre of covers [damaged]. Contents: (vol. 1) 10 leaves: 3 pages preface, 8 double-page illustrations, 1 blank single page; (vol. 2) 9 leaves: 1 blank single page; 7 double-page illustrations, 1 single page advertisement publisher's colophon; 2 single pages postscript; advertisement pasted insi…

Image record / 画像情報

BM · 1788 (New Year) · bm

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