Two fish, and a detail of a fish. Colour lithograph, 1884.
- Date:
- [1884]
- Reference:
- 727265i
- Part of:
- Namima no nishiki.
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Publication/Creation
[Japan] : [publisher not identified]?], [1884]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 21.3 x 28.6 cm
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Lettering in Japanese
Notes
One print in the set of twelve entitled Namima no nishiki (Brocades of the waves)
References note
Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas, Catalogue of Japanese printed books and manuscripts in the British Museum acquired during the years 1899-1903, [London] 1904, p. 51 ("Tokunō Riōkai, Namima no nishike 'coloured drawings of the inhabitants of the waves', i.e. fishes, 1883, obl. 4o, 16112.e.29")
William Schupbach, 'Stone brocades of fish and football', Wellcome Library blog 9 September 2010: https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210313141642/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2010/09/stone-brocades-of-fish-and-football/
Reference
Wellcome Collection 727265i
Contents
1. Houbou (gurnard); 2. Houbou (underside of gurnard); 3. Ainame (greenling or greenfish)
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