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Okumura Masanobu Itinerant Vendor of shikishi and tanzaku (paper and books), Shikishi, Booksellers, The Tale of Genji, Okumura Masanobu
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Okumura Masanobu Itinerant Vendor of shikishi and tanzaku (paper and books), Okumura Masanobu
Itinerant Vendor of shikishi and tanzaku (paper and books)
1720–1730

Signed: Okumura Masanobu hitsu. Publisher’s seal: shu-no-hyōtan (in form of a calabash); seal of Masanobu’s own publishing house: Tōrishiochō

Actually it is an actor playing an itinerant vendor for paper for poems (shikishi and tanzaku), books, and instructional material on waka poetry and koto playing as indicated on her crate. She is holding a calligraphic copybook (tehon) and a brush. One of the books at the top of her crate is named: Genji-monogatari.
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奥村正信 色紙・短冊の異本販売業者 色紙・本屋・源氏物語・奥村正信
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奥村正信 色紙・短冊の異名商 奥村正信 色紙・短冊の異名商 奥村正信 筆:秋の旦 正信自筆の:通塩翁 実際のところは、歌の紙きの役者で、その箱に書かれているような和歌や箏の指南書や著書がある。書写と筆を持っている。箱の中の1冊は源氏物語と命名されている。
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itinerant art paper photographic paper bookseller term paper