Title : Ehon yomogi-no-shima 絵本よもぎの島 (Picture Book: The Isle of Eternal Life)

Artist : Kitagawa Utamaro

Date : 1794 (?)

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Illustrated book, woodblock print. 3 volumes. Covers: Later addition, buff, with printed brown scattered plum-blossoms. Title slip: Later addition, hand written on buff slips pasted in top left corner of covers. Contents: (vol. 1) 9 leaves: 3 single pages of preface, 7 double-page illustrations, 1 blank single page; (vol. 2) 8 leaves: 1 single-page illustration, 7 double-page illustrations, 1 single-page illustration; (vol. 3) 8 leaves: 1 single-page illustration, 7 double-page illustrations, 1 single-page colophon. Illustrations: (vol. 1) 1. Collecting pine shoots; 2. Collecting spring herbs; 3. Country outing in spring; 4. Trout fishing; 5. Whitebait fishing; 6. Cherry-blossom at Yoshiwara; 7. Collecting shells at low-tide; (vol. 2) 8. Peonies; 9. Cuckoo in fourth month; 10. Catching fireflies; 11. Fireworks over Ryogoku Bridge; 12. Enjoying evening cool by river; 13. Bushclover garden; 14. Moon-viewing; 15. Deer crying in autumn landscape; (vol. 3) 16. Quail in grasses; 17. Hunting for mushrooms; 18. Maple-viewing party; 19. Rural landscape in winter; 20. Actor Segawa Kikunojo at opening-of-the-season performance; 21. Covered pleasure-boat in snow; 22. Mandarin ducks on pond; 23. Year-end party. With poems. Inscribed, signed, sealed and marked.

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