The brocade shell Nishikigai (title on object) A comparison game of poems (series title) Kasen awase (series title on object), Still life of different kinds of fabric and a red children's vest with a pattern of white cranes. In the foreground next to the cardigan is a fan in packaging, this was a common New Year's gift among traders. A cash book is on the black cloth. Print made for the new year of the snake, 1809. With two poems. This series has a literary association with a book entitled 'A series of shells as a brocade from the coast' written by Ôeda Ryûhô in 1749., Ryûryûkyo Shinsai (menti

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