11.10.2025

miniature book: “All’s Well on the Lap”

A miniature book with a colorful striped Chiyogami paper cover, wrapped with a wide band featuring a Japanese woodblock print of cats playing "shamisen" as a band. A matchstick is placed below the book for scale.

『めでたし膝の上（All's Well on the Lap）』
4.5cm x 4.3cm, Accordion book, 20pp

Inside pages of the miniature book. The open accordion-style book displays colorful images of cats from the board game.

画像は「膝の上の猫の双六」歌川芳藤、都立図書館アーカイブ（LINK）
Images are from a woodblock print of a cat-themed board game (sugoroku) from the Edo era by Yoshifuji Utagawa.


Inside pages of the miniature book. The open accordion-style book displays colorful images of cats from the board game.

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