Futatsu chōchō shiraitosōshi
雙蛺蝶白糸冊子

Creator
Shakuyakutei Nagane, $d 1767-1845 (author)
Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 (illustrator)
Fushimiya Sakubē (publisher)
Form
books
fukuro-toji
woodcuts (prints)
Date
1808
Language
Japanese
Subject
Japanese prose literature -- Edo period, 1600-1868
Japanese prose literature -- Edo period
Collection
Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Extent
5 volumes : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 23 cm
Publisher
Fushimiya Sakubē
Related Place
Japan -- Kyoto.
Notes
Source of title information: first and last lines interior.
Source of title: front interior paste down [mikaeshi] + foredge column [foredge column [hashira]] + first and last line.
Source of publication date: preface, volume 1 + colophon; publisher source: colophon, volume 5.
On double leaves; fukurotoji binding.
Tress 238: Kislak Center Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018. Formerly housed as Box 9, item 4 as well as Hokusai 28.
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p37941818
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Arthur Tress Collection, Tress 238
Provenance
Tress, Arthur (donor) (Tress Collection copy)
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text
Still Image

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