Open illustrated book with poem "The Wing of Death – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Open illustrated book with poem "The Wing of Death. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Open illustrated book with poem "The Wing of Death
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The title places a poem, "The Wing of Death," on an open book, a motif that points to the way Japanese illustrated books of the Edo and Meiji periods paired verse with pictures. Woodblock books like this were made to be handled page by page, so the viewer sees the text and image together as one composition. The record does not name the artist or publisher, so the exact date and origin remain uncertain. Still, the format shows how printed books carried literary and visual culture to a broad readership, and the poem's title suggests a meditation on mortality that was common in Japanese verse.
| Original scan | 4,564 × 3,655 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08649_ |
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