Four fish, and a detail of a fish. Colour lithograph, 1884.

[Japan] : [publisher not identified]?], [1884]

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 21.3 x 28.6 cm

Lettering in Japanese

1. Haze (goby); 2. Haze (underside of goby); 3. Kanagashira (red gurnard); 4. Kanagashira (underside of red gurnard); 5. Mebaru (black rockfish)

Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas, Catalogue of Japanese printed books and manuscripts in the British Museum acquired during the years 1899-1903, [London] 1904, p. 51 ("Tokunō Riōkai, Namima no nishike 'coloured drawings of the inhabitants of the waves', i.e. fishes, 1883, obl. 4o, 16112.e.29")

William Schupbach, 'Stone brocades of fish and football', Wellcome Library blog 9 September 2010, https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210313141642/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2010/09/stone-brocades-of-fish-and-football/

Wellcome Collection 727279i

One print in the set of twelve entitled Namima no nishiki (Brocades of the waves)