5219 - 5322 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL and TRIBAL ARTS
- Slightly soiled; a few creases.
- Wrappers faded and sl. creased; first and last leaf opened at fore-edge. = Japanese Fairy Tale Series No.14.
AND a crêped-paper leporello w. col. woodcut ills., Japanese text, between contemp. plain board covers (sl. soiled; a few lvs. sl. waterstained).
- Portfolios partly rubbed/ sl. worn; hashira-e title occas. worn off.
= Series title unread. A fine series containing woodcuts by famous 17th-19th cent. Japanese artists, Moronobu onwards.
AND 21 other facsimile vols., published in the same series, all but 4 in simple unif. blue paper wrappers (2x 2 parts in orig. cl. portfolios, containing works illustrated by i.a. Harunobu, Sukenobu, Kiyonaga and Shunshô.
- Both vols. spine broken. Otherwise fine.
AND 1 other 19th cent. ehon.
= Brown 264. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
- Sheets attached; in the right and centre sheet closed wormholes in the sky; right edge (±1,5 cm. width) of the right sheet rubbed/ sl. worn. Nevertheless, all-in-all a good copy with strong and bright colours.
- Vol. 14 binding cord partly loose.
AND 6 other unidentified ehon, all w. (double-p.) (col.) woodcuts, all in orig. wr. w. hashira-title.
- Closed wormholes. = Title-page and scenes from the ehon Shuga Ichiran.
- Both vols. sl. wormholed (repaired).
AND 2 similar reprint vols. from the BAIGAKU series (chrysantemum/ plum blossom).
= Perhaps a postwar impression. On the Watanabe seals and possible date, cf. Watanabe Tadasu in: Kawase Hasui (2003), p.45-47. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
- Laid down on stiff paper.
Idem. (Scene from the No play "Kayoi-Komachi"). Col. woodcut ôban, signed Kogyo, w. seal. - AND 6 others by the same, incl. 3 other woodcuts from the series Nogaku Zue (laid down on stiff paper).
= From the series Noga taikan (Large Mirror of No Pictures).
AND 5 others from the same series.
- Sl. duststained. = Restrike.
= Both from the series Ichikawa Danjûrô hyakuban (One hundred roles of Ichikawa Danjûrô IX).
= Including two battle scenes from the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).
= The artist is also known as Kunisada III, as he was trained under Kunisada I and II. The play that is being performed on stage is Kokusen'ya gassen (The Battles of Coxinga). Very interesting contemporary view of of one of Japan's oldest kabuki theatres (1660-1923).
- Both w. some silk threads broken, otherwise fine.