A bookcase of Edo-style kyoka, by Kitao Masanobu

An image of A bookcase of Edo-style kyôka (Azumaburi kyôka bunko). Masanobu, Kitao (Santô Kyôden, Japanese, 1761-1816). Colour printed book from woodblocks, ôhon format, 'bag' binding (fukuro-toji), pink covers, printed title slips. Block-cutter: Seki Jiemon. Author of preface and compiler: Yadoya no Meshimori. Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô. Edo Period. 1786. The full title reads: 'Newly carved in Tenmei [1781-8], one poem each by fifty poets: A bookcase of Edo-style kyôka (Tenmei shinsen gojûnin isshu: Azumaburi kyôka bunko). The book set a fashion for portraying living poets of humorous 'crazy verse' (kyôka) in comic parody of the conventionalized portraits of poets of classic verse (waka) from the past. On the left page is the female kyôka poet Tamago no Kakujo, dressed in court robes and emerging from behind a folding screen that incorporates reed-blind panels, with her kitten − not yet tame − on a cord. This is a visual parody of an incident in The Tale of Genji involving Genji's wife, the Third Princess (Onna San no Miya), and her small Chinese cat, which ran out through the blinds onto the verandah, chased by a larger cat.

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A bookcase of Edo-style kyôka (Azumaburi kyôka bunko). Masanobu, Kitao (Santô Kyôden, Japanese, 1761-1816). Colour printed book from woodblocks, ôhon format, 'bag' binding (fukuro-toji), pink covers, printed title slips. Block-cutter: Seki Jiemon. Author of preface and compiler: Yadoya no Meshimori. Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô. Edo Period. 1786. The full title reads: 'Newly carved in Tenmei [1781-8], one poem each by fifty poets: A bookcase of Edo-style kyôka (Tenmei shinsen gojûnin isshu: Azumaburi kyôka bunko). The book set a fashion for portraying living poets of humorous 'crazy verse' (kyôka) in comic parody of the conventionalized portraits of poets of classic verse (waka) from the past. On the left page is the female kyôka poet Tamago no Kakujo, dressed in court robes and emerging from behind a folding screen that incorporates reed-blind panels, with her kitten − not yet tame − on a cord. This is a visual parody of an incident in The Tale of Genji involving Genji's wife, the Third Princess (Onna San no Miya), and her small Chinese cat, which ran out through the blinds onto the verandah, chased by a larger cat.

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Accession Number: P.545-1943
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
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Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2013:08:16 14:30:30

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