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Detail View: Rylands Collection: Pink hibiscus

Image Number: 
JRL1403258
Reference Number: 
Japanese 228
Image Title: 
Pink hibiscus
Parent Work Title: 
Taishuen Somokufu
Translated Parent Work Title: 
Illustrated album of plants
Date Created: 
c1785-1792
Page/Sheet: 
Opposite page 24
Description: 
Illustration: Hibiscus mutabilis. Plant native to Southern Japan. Text in Chinese characters.
Language Code: 
chi-JP
Subject: 
Herbs--Therapeutic use
Subject: 
Botany
Subject: 
Natural History
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Painting (image-making)
Support: 
Paper
Creation Site: 
Japan
Places Covered: 
Japan
Item Height: 
390 mm
Item Width: 
232 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Provenance: 
Titsingh, Isaac, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Notes: 
Finding aids: published catalogue, P.F. Kornicki, `The Japanese Collection in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 75, no. 2 (1993), pp. 209-300.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2013-11-20
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2014-10
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Rylands