Three fish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900 (?).

[Japan] : [publisher not identified]?], [1900?]

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

Lettering in Japanese

1. Isaki (chicken grunt); 2. Shirokisu (sillago japonica); 3. Aokisu (Sillago parvisquamis)

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 727273i

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