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UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection
URL: http://asian.library.ucsf.edu/

Description:
This digitized collection of almost 400 Japanese woodblock prints "illustrates a wide variety of health-related topics. The prints provide a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West." Searchable; or view prints by themes such as contagious disease, drug advertisements, and religion and health. From the Library and Center for Knowledge Management at the University of California, San Francisco.

LII Topics: Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, Woodblock Printing

Publisher:
University of California, San Francisco

Extra Keywords
ukiyoe

Dublin Core Material Type:
Collection, Image

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Health attitudes -- Japan
Japan -- History
Prints, Japanese
Wood-engraving

LII Database Information:
Record 26333 created by Jennifer English on 06/16/2008
Last modification on 07/07/2008
Published: 07/10/2008  
California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26333

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