The Album Gifts from the Ebb Tide, Kitagawa Utamaro, 1789 - 1795 book Illustrated album with 36 Kyôka (comic poems) about different shells; Compiled by the poet Akera Kankô (1736-1799). The images of shells washed up on the beach are by Utamaro; blue cover on which waves and birds in gold; Title strip at the top left; Nine magazines; two pages, preface; Eight illustrations (from two pages each), people on the beach, shells on the beach, women shells; Last two pages, afterword and colophon. Book kept in red chitsu (folding box), with back on back: utamaro shiohi-no tsuto 1780. Or paper. color w
The Album Gifts from the Ebb Tide, Kitagawa Utamaro, 1789 - 1795 book Illustrated album with 36 Kyôka (comic poems) about different shells; Compiled by the poet Akera Kankô (1736-1799). The images of shells washed up on the beach are by Utamaro; blue cover on which waves and birds in gold; Title strip at the top left; Nine magazines; two pages, preface; Eight illustrations (from two pages each), people on the beach, shells on the beach, women shells; Last two pages, afterword and colophon. Book kept in red chitsu (folding box), with back on back: utamaro shiohi-no tsuto 1780. Or paper. color woodcut
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