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Yamato jimbutsu gafu

by: Yamaguchi, Soken, 1759-1818

Publication date: 1799

Topics: Occupations -- Japan -- History -- 1787-1868 -- Pictorial works, Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Pictorial works

Publisher: Tōkyō : Tōto ; Ōsaka : Naniwa ; Kyōto : Kōto

Collection: japaneserarebooks; brigham_young_university; americana

Contributor: Harold B. Lee Library

Language: Japanese

Title (alternate script): 倭人物畫譜

Author (alternate script): 山口素絢

Volume: 1

3 v. : 28 cm

Title taken from upper cover labels

Text and illustrations printed within black-ruled border

This book consists of 104 genre illustrations (ukiyoe) which deal with the customs and practices of daily life of its period. The topics cover a wide range of trades, e.g., geisha, acrobatic performers, barbers, sedan-chair bearers, padlars, etc

Printed on double leaves

Illustrations are monochrome wood block prints