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1613457230
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Illustrated book, folding album, colour woodblock-printed. One volume. Covers: Original, dark blue, painted in gold with plovers above waves and bands of mist. Title slip: Original, on yellow slip, pasted in top right corner of cover. Contents: 10 leaves: 1 double-page preface, 8 double-page illustrations, 1 double-page postscript, colophon. Illustrations: opening view of shell-gathering at Shinagawa Bay; six images of shells, seaweed and other sea wrack; fine interior scene of women playing 'kai-awase' (shell game). With mica, brass dust, pipette-blown pigment, gold and silver leaf and gauffrage. Inscribed.
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