Gifts of the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)

KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1754–1806)

Color woodblock-printed album with highlights in mica, metallic pigments, gauffrage and mother-of-pearl; orihon, paper covers indigo decorated in gold wash with pine-shoots and stylized clouds, with original title slip Shiohi no tsuto black-on-buff paper; one vol. complete, 10¾ x 7⅝ in. (27.3 x 19.4 cm), comprising one sheet preface; one sheet landscape; six sheets poems and detailed images of shells; one sheet interior view; one sheet postscript and colophon; undated [1789].