- Trifle fingersoiled in lower and left margin.
- Corners (sl.) fingersoiled. Backwr. (and last few lvs.) waterst,; corners bumped.
- Trifle fingersoiled in left margin; sl. faded. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
- Doubled; sl. creased; sl. rubbed in right margin.
- First print several (closed) wormholes; second print num. unclosed wormholes.
- Sl. faded. Otherwise fine.
-Three prints (partly) yellowed; all prints sl. creases/ trifle dam./ worn in corners.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
- Mounted along top under passepartout; (sl.) browned, otherwise fine.
= Rare print from before the 1923 Kantô earthquake.
- Trifle/ sl. foxed. Modern thread.
ADDED: 7 Japanese printed ephemera (±1900-1940), i.a a 1936 copy of Fujin Kurabu (Women's Club Magazine), containing articles on a wide range of topics (i.a. on the Olympics), recipes, stories and advertisements, w. (col.) (photographic) ills.
- Only vol. 4 (of 10). Contents waterstained; partly (heavily) fingersoiled along bottom margin. Wr. (very) worn.
= Provenance: Felix Tikotin. Rare.
- Sl. browned; sm. hole in lower left corner.
AND 7 other later (surimono) prints, i.a. shijo surimono.
- Slightly soiled; w. a (sm.) stain.
= From the series Genji Monogatari. Keyes, p.518: No. 142, copies A or B w. three poems.
Hokkei (1780-1850). (Koto with music books and a fish bowl). Col. woodcut shikishiban, signed Hokkei, w. gold and silver gauffrage, probably early 20th cent.
- Slightly browned and spotted; w. two sm. wormholes; cut sl. short along top; w. a (sm.) waterstain in mid-upper half.
= From the series Mutsumigawa bantsuzuki Makura no soshi (The Pillow Book Series for the Mutsumi Group).
- Slightly browned; corners creased.
ADDED: Anonymous (20th cent.). (Kyoto, Maruyama). Col. woodcut, 14x9 cm., w. red seal "Kiyoshi" and unidentified seal, after Tsuchiya Koitsu's work with the same name, second half 20th cent.
- Most lvs. quite worn, particularly in lower margin; w. some annots. in Japanese in brush and ink. Rebound; binding sl. worn.
= An ehon by a pupil of Hokusai, as is evident in the style.
- Both w. a few worn/ dam. lvs. Both wrs. worn/ sl. dam.
= One vol. w. the outlines of the tangrams, and the other vol. w. the solutions.
- With manuscript title in French in pen and ink in upper blank margin.
= Effective use of lacquer technique for the shiny black uniform coats and the black shoes of the Japanese soldiers.
- Foxed in upper half of left margin of left hand sheet. Otherwise fine.
= State before the block of the left sheet was recycled to be used in the Russo-Japanese war (where it shows Russian soldiers fleeing in panic from the advancing Japanese troops).
= The Battle of Pyongyang was the second major land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War. It took place on 15 September 1894 in Pyongyang, Korea between the forces of Meiji Japan and Qing China.
- Sl. foxed in lower margin; tipped onto mount along upper and lower margin. Otherwise fine.
AND 1 other by KUNICHIKA (A masked actor holding a dagger in his hand) (part of an ōban triptych. Cut short).