@ArchivistSarah It is beautiful! Looks like: Bijutsu chigusa no tane, volume 1 (1893). It is a 2-volume set. OCLC link: https://t.co/LvRKtBhAoV
Japan's National Diet Library has the digitized version: https://t.co/17GfZgpGr4
Tsukumogamiki 付喪神記. "In Japan, it was said that gods and spirits would come to dwell in even ordinary things that were used for 100 years or longer. Such things were known as Tsukumogamiki." Edo period. https://t.co/RJzDRrwbXY https://t.co/ddGleLKRpS
What fascinates me more than the shells in this book is the peculiar shape most of the hiragana for no の take here. The preface already looks rather special in this respect, but so do also many other instances of の in the remainder. -- Scan: https://t.co/7PHVZLxp1E (潮干のつと) https://t.co/Gewb8KXdOO https://t.co/8LrPf2N9Z3
This nishiki-e by Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicts a moment from an auspicious kabuki performance, Sanbaso https://t.co/xtXSbnI8DV #ndldigital https://t.co/KvTdLrweRE
The yūrei-zu genre was popularized in the Edo period, possibly inaugurated by the work of Maruyama Ōkyo in the 18th cen. His Ghost of Oyuki painting here is perhaps one of the most widely recognized ghost portraits. See the Yoshitoshi in high res here: https://t.co/oUGPYg050f https://t.co/pwPQ1k1yPF