harigedai 貼外題

A strip of paper encircling the outside cover *hyōshi 表紙 of a book, on which the title and sometimes other publishing information is printed. A *daisen 題簽, or title strip. Harigedai refers specifically to the picture title strips on books of *ukiyo-e 浮世絵. The title strips had the book name, author's name, and number of volumes of the set of books. The daisen might also have a picture. In cases where there were two title strips, one would contain the writing and the other the picture.