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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.

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