= Nice, early woodcut (dated on printseller's ticket). With orig. passepartout w. mounted hasira title. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- All fine copies. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Sl. rubbed to the left of the signature. Otherwise fine.
Yoshitaki (1841-1899). (Onoe Tamizo II as Ume no Yoshibei in the play Suda no Haru Geiko Katagi). Col. woodcut chûban, signed Noriya Yoshitaki ga, without publisher.
- With album backing. Very fine.
Tadamune Torii (act. mid 20th cent.). (A samurai holding a rush hat and carrying luggage on his shoulder). Col. woodcut shikishiban, printed w. gold and silver pigments, signed Tadamune, without publisher (fine). - AND and an unsigned col. woodcut chûban by Hirosada (mediocre copy) .
- Rubbed spot in lower right margin. Otherwise very fine. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE L.
Idem. (Kabuki actor in female role). Col. woodcut chûban, printed with some gold, signed Hirosada, with red artist's seal, publ. Kinka-do.
- Album backing. Otherwise fine.
= From the series Churetsu Gishi-den.
Idem. (Arashi Rikaku II or Onoe Baiko IV as Kobotoke Kohei in the play "Yotsuya Kaidan"). Col. woodcut chûban, signed Hirosada, publ. unread.
= Probably part of a triptych or diptych.
AND a small col. woodcut by the same, "Chuko-den" (the actor Jitsukawa Ensaburo in the role of Hayase Iori) (11,7x17 cm. Mounted on Japanese; lower corner of mount browned).
- Fine. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
- Album backing; sl. trimmed.
- Doubled w. Japanese, closing several scattered wormholes.
- Vertical margins trifle cut short (affecting publisher's name and censor seals).
= From the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo).
AND 3 20th cent. restrikes of prints by HIROSHIGE, i.a. a copy of Edo Kinko Hakkei (Autumn Moon over Tama River) and of Ishiyakushi ishiyakushiji (Ishiyakushi Temple).
- First print w. closed wormholes in right lower corner; 2nd print w. very sm. closed tears in left margin, just within the image; sl. soiled.
= Print no.12 and 55 of the Jinbutsu Tôkaidô series (The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road).
AND 4 col. woodcuts by the same, all illustrations from an unidentified ehon, all landscapes.
- Sl. foxed and sl. yellowed; strengthened along margins on recto.
AND 2 other col. woodcut ôban, by HIROSHIGE and KUNISADA, both wormholed (the latter also fingersoiled).
- Fine. = From the series Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi (The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations).
Idem. Hitorizuka (Seki: The solitary grave). Col. woodcut, 16x22,1 cm., signed Hiroshige ga, publisher Tsutaya Kichizo.
- Cus sl. short in top margin and trimmed to the border in right margin.
= From the same series.
AND 1 other by the same (damaged).
- Box sl. faded. Otherwise very fine. = Published under editorship of Munishige Narazaki and Sadao Kikuchi.
- Three horizontal folds; doubled w. Japanese.
= The poem above the snowy branches reads "Oshidori no, sakazuki to chiyo, usukori" and translates as: For mandarin ducks/ thin ice is a wedding cup/ for a thousand year.
AND 2 others (both sl. creased and sl. stained).
- Left part only; yellowed; some portions paper restored.
AND a small woodcut by the same(?) showing people on rowing boats and sails behind waves.
- Sl. creased and strengthened in left margin; sm. frayed spot in left margin.
AND a col. woodcut ôban by KUNIHIRO (Lady in a garden near a gate) (creased and sl. waterstained; paper mounting tickets on verso in all corners).
- Good set. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.