Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro
Title: Ehon Azuma asobi 絵本吾妻遊 (Picture Book: Amusements of Edo)
Date: 1790 (New Year)
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British Museum
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Description:
Illustrated book, woodblock print. 3 volumes. Covers: Original, buff, printed with brown Chinese bell-flower and seven treasure pattern. Title slips: Original, scripts printed on pale yellow slips pasted in top left corner of covers. Contents: (vol. 1) 8 leaves: 3 single pages of preface, 6 double-page illustrations, 1 single-page illustration; (vol. 2) 7 leaves: 1 single-page illustration, 6 double-page illustrations, 1 single-page illustration; (vol. 3) 9 leaves: 1 single-page illustration, 7 double-page illustrations, 1 single-page illustration, 1 double page of publisher's advertisements for illustrated books. Illustrations: (vol. 1) 1. Yoshiwara; 2. San'ya-bori; 3. Bishamon Shrine at Kojimachi; 4. Nippori; 5. Ume-yashiki; 6. Komagata Hall 7. Shinjuku. (vol. 2) 8. Shinobazu Pond; 9. Takanawa; 10. Imado; 11. Asukayama; 12. Yanagihara; 13. Zoshigaya; 14. Ushi-no-gozen Shrine; 15. Fudo Shrine at Mejiro. (vol. 3) 16. Atagoyama; 17. Nitta Daimyojin Shrine; 18. Sumida River; 19. Mirror Pond; 20. Asaji-ga-hara; 21. Washi Daimyojin Shrine; 22. Yamashita in Ueno; 23. Narihira Bridge; 24. Matsuchiyama. Inscribed and signed.