70 handpainted scenes, 28x40 cm, ca. Tenpo era (1840)Ink and pigment on washi paper, these files were probably supposed to be bound together in a scroll form.

japanese-painting

myjapanesehanga

An identical print is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts

Highly appreciated among collectors especially for his printing techniques

double scroll (2) in tomobako wood box

Chuta Ito is famous for being the architect of Tsukiji Honganji Temple

two double printed pages with the names of the poets

discussed below

Only 3 vols (75 prints) were published

ink on silk/ authentificated inside tomonako box/ wooden shafts

just two decades after the opening of Japan to the West by Matthew Perry

sealed and signed