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Edo prints

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	Design:	Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770)
	Title:	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi
	Size:	30 x 21 cm
	Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks

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Enlargement

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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
四	shi	four	Fourth book

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The twenty-four scanned pages of the book are shown below. Each image can be clicked (and then clicked again) to obtain a larger (and even larger) view of the corresponding print. 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 suggested by the image on the Introduction page below, the subject of the haiku in each print of this volume is momiji (the beautifully tinted autumn leaves). The images are continued in the last book of this series.

			Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 23
Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 22	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 21	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 20	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 19
Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 18	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 17	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 16	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 15
Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 14	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 13	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 12	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 11
Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 10	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 9	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 8	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 7
Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 6	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 5	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 4	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 3
Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 2	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - 1	Ehon Seirō Bijin Awase Shi - Intro page

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References

• Chiba City Museum of Art (2002). Suzuki Harunobu. Chiba: Chiba City Museum of Art and Hagi Uragami Museum

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Provenance: The Mokuhankan website of David Bull