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Guide to the UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection

Descriptive Summary

Title:
UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print collection

Dates:
1600-1900

Collection number:
Consult repository

Collector:
Minami, Atsumi

Collector:
de C. Saunders, John B.

Collection Size:
400 items
366 online items

Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.

San Francisco, California 94143-0840

Abstract:
A collection of Japanese woodblock prints on the subject of health and medicine. Included are Ukiyo-e prints depicting diseases, health practices, public health messages, and drug advertisements, as well as maps of Nagasaki and textual drug advertisements. The website for the UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection  includes an introduction to the collection, as well as essays on prominent themes, and allows users to view the prints by theme and search the collection.

Physical location:
East Asian Collection

Languages:
Languages represented in the collection: English,
Japanese

Digitized images from this collection.

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