A lacquer box containing a set of poem cards, on a red table: the box is opened to reveal a stack of cards. Colour woodcut, 1820s.

Date:
[between 1820 and 1829]
Reference:
37817i
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A lacquer box containing a set of poem cards, on a red table: the box is opened to reveal a stack of cards. Colour woodcut, 1820s. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Each card carries the poet's portrait and one poem: a popular game was played with sets of these cards

Publication/Creation

Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], [between 1820 and 1829]

Physical description

1 print : woodcut, printed in colours

Lettering

A modern poem is inscribed on the top left, the poems on the cards are from the 'medieval period'

Reference

Wellcome Collection 37817i

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