Title
Chūrui gafu : zen
By
Kitagawa, Utamaro, 1753?-1806
Ishikawa, Masamochi, 1754-1830
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Tōkyō, Ōkura Magobē, Meiji 25 [1892]
Notes
Title from label mounted on cover.
880-04 | Seal in red on leaf facing colophon: Kinʼeidō zōhan shō.
880-05 | Responsibility of text: Yadoya Meshimori [Ishikawa Masamochi] sen. Cf. Kokusho sōmokuroku. Hoteiban. 1989-1991. Dai 5-kan, p. 674.
880-06 | Orihon binding (folding book in accordion style).
Contains colour prints of insects and some reptiles of Japan with accompanying plants: bees, caterpillars, dragonflies, butterflies, fireflies, mantis, spider, snake, lizard, snail, beetles, cicada, earthworm, frog and others. Each picture also carries kyōka poems describing the insects. The folding book binding allows each print to fully display on the same side of the leaf.
Subjects
Color prints, Japanese
,
Edo period, 1600-1868
,
Insects
,
Insects in art
,
Japan
,
Kyōka
,
Pictorial works
Call Number
QL 466 K52 1892 AEU
Language
Japanese
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173938
OCLC:
987640493
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