Table of Contents for A Selection of Thirty-Six Beauties (Sanjūrokkasen)

A Selection of Thirty-Six Beauties

Information

Title Table of Contents for A Selection of Thirty-Six Beauties (Sanjūrokkasen)
Series title A Selection of Thirty-Six Beauties 三十六佳撰
Artist Mizuno Toshikata 水野年方 (1866–1908)
Date 15/6/1893
Publisher Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) 秋山武右衛門 (滑稽堂)
City Tokyo
Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban diptych
Object number SH2018-DM-194
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma

Description

The author of the preface is Itō Senzō 伊東専三 (1850–1914), pen name Kyōtō 橋塘, the proprietor of an okashi shop (Japanese sweets), who also worked at the Ministry of Finance. As a writer, he was the pupil of the well known author of popular fiction Kanagaki Robun (1829–1894).