A fish. Colour lithograph, 1884.

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[1884]
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727283i
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Namima no nishiki.
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[Japan] : [publisher not identified]?], [1884]

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 21.3 x 28.6 cm

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Lettering in Japanese

Notes

One print in the set of twelve entitled Namima no nishiki (Brocades of the waves)

References note

Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas, Catalogue of Japanese printed books and manuscripts in the British Museum acquired during the years 1899-1903, [London] 1904, p. 51 ("Tokunō Riōkai, Namima no nishike 'coloured drawings of the inhabitants of the waves', i.e. fishes, 1883, obl. 4o, 16112.e.29")
William Schupbach, 'Stone brocades of fish and football', Wellcome Library blog 9 September 2010: https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210313141642/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2010/09/stone-brocades-of-fish-and-football/

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Wellcome Collection 727283i

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Tai (snapper)

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