Japanese botany : being a facsimile of a Japanese book with introductory notes and translations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tachibana, Morikuni, 1679-1748, author.

橘守国, 1679-1748, author.

Standardized Title:

Ehon ōshukubai. Maki no 5.

画本鶯宿梅. 卷之五.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Botany.

Plants in art.

Flowers in art.

Japanese language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Japanese language.

Japanese language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Syle, L. DuPont (Louis DuPont), 1857-1903 (donor) (RBC copy)

Bartram Memorial Library Committee (donor) (Morris Arboretum copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 2 unnumbered pages, 58 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Sōka

Kusabana

草花

Place of Publication:

Philada : J.B. Lippincott & Co. Publishers, [between 1850 and 1855?]

Language Note:

English and Japanese.

Notes:

Title from English title page. Cover has Japanese title "Sōka" ["Kusabana"], and Japanese caption title "Ehon ōshukubai Maki no go".

Place of publication "Philadelphia" abbreviated as "Philada" with final letter a in superscript.

Date of publication given by Wenckstern as 1850, and by Pagès as 1855.

On double leaves, oriental style (fukurotoji).

Local Notes:

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries by G.S. Dupont Syle. Morris Arboretum copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Bartram Memorial Library.

Cited in:

Wenckstern's "Bibliography of the Japanese Empire" (1895).

Pagès's "Bibliographie japonaise" (1859) 617.

OCLC:

5146949