Title : Ehon kotoba no hana 絵本詞の花 (Picture Book: Flowers of Words)

Artist : Kamakura Bofu

Date : 1787 (New Year, preface)

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Source : British Museum
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Description : Illustrated book, woodblock print. 2 volumes. Covers: Original, buff-coloured, printed with horizontal brown irregular bands, embossed with textile weave title slips: Original, printed with Ehon kotoba no hana, jo, ge, pasted in top left corner of covers contents: (vol. 1) 8 leaves: colour-printed wrapper pasted inside the cover; 3 single pages of preface, 7 double-page illustrations, 1 single-page illustration; (vol. 2) 7 leaves: 1 single-page illustration, 6 double-page illustrations, 1 single-page illustration, advertisement and publisher's colophon pasted inside back cover. With poems. Inscribed and signed.

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