- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Label
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This set of seventy-five illustrated books of Chinese stories of the Three Kingdoms was published in groups over a period of five years. To facilitate reading in Japanese, the Chinese text is annotated with phonetic Japanese script and indications of word order. The artist Taito II may have worked closely with Hokusai during a period when the master artist was also producing many Chinese illustrations. Japanese books were often stored in stacks, as in the custom-fitted bookcase for this complete set of volumes.
- Published References
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- James T. Ulak, Ann Yonemura, Alessandro Bianchi, Julie Nelson Davis. The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book. Washington. https://pulverer.si.edu/node/1214/title.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
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