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TITLE:  Kyōjo chō ni tawamururu
TITLE TRANSLATION:  Crazy woman playing with butterflies.

CALL NUMBER:  FP 2 - JPD, no. 389 (A size) [P&P]

Restricted access; material extremely fragile; please use online digital image.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-jpd-00392 (digital file from original print)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Print shows a woman with long hair chasing butterflies; following her are several children mocking her, two mothers carrying infants on their backs, and a man smoking a pipe and carrying a hoe(?).

MEDIUM:  1 print : woodcut, color ; 18.5 x 25.6 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1800 and 1868]

NOTES:

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006.

Format: one page from an illustrated book (Saishiki-zuri).

Central vertical cut--two sheets pasted next to each other. DLC

Attributed to: Hokusai School.

Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

SUBJECTS:

Mentally ill persons--Japan--1800-1870.
Women--Japan--1800-1870.
Children--Japan--1800-1870.
Mothers--Japan--1800-1870.

FORMAT:

Ukiyo-e Japanese 1800-1870.
Woodcuts Japanese Color 1800-1870.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original print) jpd 00392 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/jpd.00392

CONTROL #:  2009615382


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