[Japanese woodblock print of a cassowary], May of Kansei 2 [1790]

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May of Kansei 2 [1790]

Graphic Materials, Prints

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1 print - 33 x 45 cm - wood block

Purchased by vendor at a union auction of registered dealers in Tokyo.

Comprises a woodblock-printed advertisement for a Japanese event featuring a cassowary.

The desription states that "in July of the first year of Kansei (1789) a bird called the 'kazuwaru' [cassowary] ('dacho' or 'hikui-dori' [fire-eating bird]) came on a Dutch ship to Nagaski. Its habitat is south-west Asia to Persia, and it normally eats rice and barley, but also eats iron, stone, tiles, fire, charcoal, and so on".

Reference
Information supplied by vendor, Library correspondence file.

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Hojo: Dacho no Zu

Reference:
Title provided by vendor