4511 - 4665 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- One piece of the outer border line gone.
= On Confucianism.
= Scene from the Sino-Japanese War.
AND 1 other triptych showing officers and samurai at a meeting, probably showing an event in the Satsuma Rebellion.
- Lacks backwrapper; colophon leaf sl. dam. Woodcuts in fine condition.
- Publisher's mount foxed, woodcut not affected. = Early 20th cent. restrike.
AND 2 others by the same, both 20th cent. restrikes, i.a. Beauty in the mosquito-net and her waiting maid (chuban, signed Utamaro ga. Tipped onto publisher's mount).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
- Tipped onto mount, otherwise fine.
= Without date or artist seal, so probably a later impression. From the series showing Westerners. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
= Japanese history of Bakumatsu, mentioning the Namamugi incident.
= From the series Yoshitoshi musha burui (Yoshitoshi's couragious warriors). Probably second edition, cf. Van den Ing & Schaap, 1992, p. 65.
= Second edition. Stevenson 23. From the series Shingata sanjûrokasen (New forms of thirty-six ghosts).
- Mounted under passepartout.
= From the series A Record of the Advancement of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1869.
AND 1 other woodcut triptych by KUNICHIKA (also mounted under passepartout and browned).
- Browned; paper brittle w. some closed tears.
= According to an accompanying note a reference is made in the calligraphed text to the legendary artist Wu Daozi, perhaps a composition after him.