Nanshoku hiyoku no tori 男色比翼鳥

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or.64.a.17
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1707
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume (20 folios) Impression: Atozuri. Illustrations: 3 double-page hand-coloured woodcut illustrations plus tobira-e. Binding: Plain pinkish fawn covers (damaged). Fukurotoji, in a chitsu case. Daisen missing.

Scope and Content

Title from preface and table of contents. Title on mikaeshi: Wakan jakudō kagami nanshoku hiyoku no tori 和漢若道鑑男色比翼鳥. Title on hanshin: Hiyoku 比翼. Author: Azuma no Kamiko 東紙子; artist: Okumura Masanobu 奥村政信. Imprint: [Edo : Yamadaya Sanshirō 山田屋三四郎, Hōei 4 [1707]]. Description: 1 vol. out of 6. folios numbered 1-4, 12-23 [f.12 foliated as 五ﾉ十二]. 26.6 x 18.3 cm. Blockprint. Printing frame 21.3 x 16.1 cm. Contents: Ukiyo-zōshi on a homoerotic theme.

Access Information

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Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum 23 May 1968.