Edo prints
| Design: | Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) | |||||
| Title: | Ehon seirō bijin awase ichi | |||||
| Size: | 30 x 21 cm | |||||
| Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks | ||||||
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Originally released in 1770 by publisher Funaki Kanosuke.
This reproduction released in 1917 by publisher Tosho Kanko-kai.
Title on the book cover:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 青 | sei | Green | Beauties of the green houses |
| 楼 | rō | tower | |
| 美 | bi | beautiful | |
| 人 | jin | person | |
| 合 | a(waseru) | put together | |
| 壱 | ichi | one | First book |
The fourty-four scanned pages of this book are shown below. Each image can be clicked, and then clicked again, to obtain a wonderfully detailed view of the corresponding print and/or text. Since Japanese books are read from back to front, the pages start at the bottom right corner of the table, and end up in the top left corner. As indicated by the image on page 3 of the Introduction below, the subject of the haiku in each print of this volume is sakura (cherry blossoms). The images are continued in the second, third, fourth, and fifth book of this series.
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 Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Ichi - 3 |
 Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Ichi - 2 |
 Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Ichi - 1 |
 Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Ichi - Intro page 3 |
 Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Ichi - Intro page 2 |
 Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Ichi - Intro page 1 |
References
- Chiba City Museum of Art (2002). Suzuki Harunobu. Chiba: Chiba City Museum of Art and Hagi Uragami Museum
Provenance: The Mokuhankan website of David Bull