喜多川歌麿による浮世絵「Waka Ebisu 龢謌夷 (The Young God Ebisu)」
作者：喜多川歌麿
作品名：Waka Ebisu 龢謌夷 (The Young God Ebisu)
制作年：1789 (New Year)
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説明：
Illustrated book, folding album, colour woodblock print. 1 vol. Sixty poems celebrating coming of spring by sixty poets on five double pages, and five illustrations by Utamaro of New Year scenes. Covers: Original, dark blue, painted with horizontal cloud bands, grasses and pine shoots. Title slips: (missing, originally pasted in top left corner of cover). Contents: 12 leaves: 1 double-page preface, 10 double pages alternating illustrations and poems, 1 double-page postscript and colophon. Illustrations: New Year at court (Kyutei no shogatsu); New Year in a samurai mansion (Buke no shogatsu); Delivering New Year gifts in the snow (Setchu no nenrei); New Year street-performers (Dai-kagura); Performance by a trained monkey (Saru-hiki).With brass dust, gold and silver leaf and gauffrage. Inscribed and signed.