illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1979,0305,0.351.1
- Title
- Object: Kyoka Yamato jinbutsu 狂歌やまと人物 (Japanese People: A Kyoka Collection)
- Description
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Illustrated book. Vol. 1 of seven. Verses on trades and professions with humorous figure drawings printed in light colours. Covers of volumes decorated with dragon-flies in gold on blue. Woodblock-printed.
- Production date
- 1857 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 23.40 centimetres
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Width: 16.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Hillier and Smith 1980
Although this set of volumes is undated, dates of 1855 and 1857 are quoted in Japanese sources.
Literature:
Brown, Louise Norton, 'Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan', London and New York, 1924, p. 194, gives the date as 1843-8.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012 Feb – Jun, BM Japanese Galleries, ‘Japan, from Prehistory to the Present’
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.351.1
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.351 (Hillier no.)