illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1979,0305,0.163.2
- Title
- Object: Ima wa mukashi 異魔話武可誌 (Now, Long Ago...)
- Description
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Illustrated book. Vol. 2 from a set of three volumes. Ghost stories with illustrations. Partly colour, woodblock-printed.
- Production date
- 1790
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.70 centimetres
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Width: 14.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Hillier and Smith 1980
The colophon indicates that Shun'ei was assisted by his master, Shunsho. This is the most imaginative and the best designed and printed of all Japanese books of 'diablerie'. The title is an elaborate play on written characters; the first three can mean 'stories of strange demons' as well as 'once upon a time'.
Literature:
Incorrectly named "Kwaidan hyaku zue" in Brown, Louise Norton, 'Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan', London and New York, 1924, p. 164.
Incorrectly named "Kwaidan hyaku zue" in 'Collection Ch. Gillot, Deuxième Partie', Paris, 1904, no. 391.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2007 Jun 13-Oct 7, BM Galleries, Japan from Prehistory to the Present
2010 Feb-Jun, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.163.2
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.163 (Hillier no.)
