EditorialThe brocade shell Nishikigai (title on object) A comparison game of poems (series title) Kasen awase (series title on object), Still life of different kinds of fabric and a red children's vest with a pattern of white cranes. In the foreground next to t...
EditorialPlover shells, raw mussel and brocade shell Chidorigai namakaki nishikigai (title on object) A series of shells (series title) Kaitsukushi (series title on object), A large mussel, a gray pecten and five smaller ones shells. With three poems, one poem ...
EditorialBrocade shell Nishikigai (title on object) A comparison of Genroku poems and shells (series title) Genroku kasen kaiawase (series title on object), The village of Mutsuda, famous for its weeping willows, on the banks from the Yoshino river. In the fore...
EditorialBrocade Shell (Nishikigai), Ch?bunsai Eishi, (Japanese, 1756-1827), Edo, about 1791, ink on paper, color woodblock print, 9-5/8 x 7-1/8 in. (image and sheet), Signed, reads: Eishi ga, series, untitled series of shells, Asian Art.