Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 57079
Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book: Selected Insects
画本虫撰
- 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 record / 画像記録
- 750 × 668 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- British Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 星野アカリ
- Rights / 権利
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; commercial license required
- Attribution / 表記
- Copyright The Trustees of the British Museum
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…
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