Mozume Takami, (Kechō) Amabiko (怪鳥)あまびこ, Kōbunko 広文庫, Kōbunko kankōkai, т. 1, с. 1151 Facsimile illustration and text from the Nagasaki kai'i shokan no utsushi35.
The leaf is bound along with unrelated material in the Tsubokawa manuscript (яп.坪川本), now in the possession of the Fukui Prefectural Library (福井県立図書館). The painting was presumably by the known copyist, who was not born 1846, sot the 1844 date cannot be the date he painted it, but rather the date indicated on the original exemplar.[25]
Mozume Takami, (Kechō) Amabiko (怪鳥)あまびこ, Kōbunko 広文庫, Kōbunko kankōkai, т. 1, с. 1151 Facsimile illustration and text from the Nagasaki kai'i shokan no utsushi35.
Several more attestations were noted post-2005: a copy of Ambabiko[?] dated 1843 in Seisō kibun,[5] the facsimile and text of a different 1843 copy in an encyclopedia Кобунко[ja][6][7], and an 1844 dated copy preserved in Echizen city.[8]
Leaflet, as in written (and painted) on approximately a halved hanshi (paper)[ja] size (24 см × 33 см (9,45 дюйм × 13,0 дюйм)) paper,Nagano, (2005) i.e., very roughly a halved legal size paper.
The pamphlets are identified as surimono (яп.刷物) in the newspaper, which added they were about the size of a quartered ханші (папір)[ja] size, i.e., very roughly a quartered legal size paper as discussed in note above. Also the newspaper reprinted a normalized text mixed with kanji, revealing that the original was entirely in kana.
