
Prints
Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演, Mid Edo period, dated 1784
First two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink on paper
18th centuryJapanese