Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 57379

Annals of the Green Houses

Artist / 作者: Kitagawa Utamaro喜多川歌麿
Date / 年代: 1804
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / kruml
Digital record / 画像記録: 541 × 580 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Japanese Prints London
Published by / 公開者: 水野ナギ
Rights / 権利: No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記: Japanese Prints London

Catalog note / 解説

(Seiro Ehon) Nenju Gyoji, Yoshiwara Events or “Annals of the Green Houses”. One of Utamaro’s major books showing the annual events in the only government licensed brothel district in the city of Edo (Tokyo). Two volumes complete published Spring 1804 by Kazusaya Chusuke juo. Text by Jippensha Ikku. Original covers and title slips. Very fine copy: Fine impressions with very fine, completely unfaded colours. Slight stain affecting first few pages of text and a small wormhole within binding affecting the first few illustrations. Covers in very good condition, some rubbing of title slips. Ex collections Theodore Duret (seals on last page of each vol.) and Tadamasa Hayashi (large square seals on…

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