Ehon Himetsubaki, 繪本女貞木, Picture Book: Camellia (Ehon Himetsubaki), Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1745

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Ehon Himetsubaki, 繪本女貞木, Picture Book: Camellia (Ehon Himetsubaki), Edo period (1615–1868), 1745(?), Japan, Bound book of monochrome woodblock prints; ink on paper, Overall: 10 1/2 x 7in. ( x ), Illustrated Books, Nishikawa Sukenobu (Japanese, 1671–1750), This book features illustrations of exemplary women. According to the text in the upper section of these pages, a beautiful plum tree owned by a poor woman was to be transferred to the garden of Emperor Goichijō's palace by imperial order, but the emperor, moved by the lady's poem expressing sympathy for the warblers that would lose their nest, decided not to take the tree

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