Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Kokon Yoshiwara kidan // [Past and present strange stories from the Yoshiwara].
Call Number
E Row 1/GC063/Box 01/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01132
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3j3332379
Publisher
Japan : [s.n.], n.d. [1900s] ; n.d [1680s] (original print).
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1900
Extent
1 item ; sheet 35.7 x 23.3 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Ehon (picture book)
Format: Single-page bookplate .
Item description: Title page of an illustrated storybook of tales from the Yoshiwara pleasure district in Edo. The stories include as listed in the heading: Courtesan Takao at the Height of Popularity (Takao no zensei) and Stingy Crowds (Yasune no gunshû).
Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
Signed: Hishikawa Moronobu zu.

Discovery Information

Subject
Illustration of books—Japan—Edo period, 16001868—Specimens
Japanese literature—Illustrations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5155a1b7-d37c-49b4-822f-765f79bab440/manifest