A Chinese wedding: the bride is carried to her new home. Colour woodcut by Shigemasa, ca. 1810.

  • Kitao, Shigemasa, 1739-1820.
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1810]
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565968i
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A Chinese wedding: the bride is carried to her new home. Colour woodcut by Shigemasa, ca. 1810. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Edo [Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], 1810]

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1 print : woodcut, printed in colours ; image and border 23.3 x 31.8 cm

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Extensive lettering in Japanese Top right, model for the wedding card inscribed: father: Aioi Manzayemon; mother: Takasago Uji: daughter: Chiyō, born 1st day of the 1st month of the sixteenth year, Ki no ye ne (year of the rat, 1794)

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Wellcome Collection 565968i

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