東都名所 (pronunciation: tōto meisho)
https://www.hiroshige.org.uk/Views_Of_Edo/TriptychsEdo.htm
"Date: 1832-34 (Tenpō [天保] 3-5)
Publisher: Tsutaya Kichizō (Kōeidō) [版元:蔦屋 吉蔵 (紅英堂); kichi is a Chinese pronunciation of kanji 吉]
Format: Vertical ōban triptych
Number of Prints: 17/27
References: Ukiyo-e shūka 14 (p.248 #77)"
Note:
(a) Click the last line would reach:
Ukiyoe shūka 浮世絵 聚花 volume 14, published in 1981 by 小学館, compiled by SAKAI Gankow 酒井 雁高 (who deliberately uses a nonstandard romanization, instead of Gankō)
(b) Japanese-English dictionary:
* san-ma-i-tsuzuji 三枚続き; 三枚続 【さんまいつづき】 (n): "triptych"
* han-moto 版元 【はんもと】 (n): "publisher"
* The kanji 蔦 has Japanese pronunciation tsuta and means "vine, ivy."
* ōban 大判 【おおばん】 (n): "large size (paper, book, etc)"
^ oban 小判 (n) : 'small size"
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