Preface by Ota Nampo ('Yomo Sanjin" or Yomo no Akara) from the printed album "A Competition Among the New Beauties of the Yoshiwara Mirrored in Their Writing" (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)
1761 - 1816
Kitao Masanobu 北尾政演
Japanese
First two-page spread of an accordion-fold woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Edo period, 1615-1868