Variant title: Suizoku shashin setsu 水族寫眞説 [水族写真説]. Translated title: 'Accurate drawings of fishes'. Author/compiler: Okukura Tatsuyuki 奥倉辰行. Imprint: Tōto: Suiseidō 水生堂 (mikaeshi). Prefaces dated Ansei 2 [1855] and Ansei 3 [1856]. Bonrei dated Ansei 4 [1857]. Description: 1 volume, 2, 2, 2, 37; 29 ff. Rebound in Western style. Vermilion front cover only retained, embossed with stylised wave pattern in kirazuri. Printed title slip: 鯛部/巻之一上. Contents: Illustrations of Japanese sea bream.
Suizoku shashin. Tai no bu 水族寫眞. 鯛部 [水族写真. 鯛部]
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- Dates of Creation1857
- Language of MaterialJapanese
- Physical Description1 volume Condition: Good. Dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. Printing frame: 21.2 x 16.5 cm. Illustrations Hand-coloured woodcut illustrations of 90 kinds of sea bream.
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Purchased by the British Museum from William Anderson, 13 Feb. 1894.