4611 - 4784 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL and TRIBAL ARTS
- Vertical folds. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
- Some foxing/ soiling.
AND a small collection of 25 prints, all but a few chromolithogr. bookillustrations, all w. religious/ esoterical subject, all framed.
- One miniature badly wormholes (not affecting image).
- Fine copy.
- Trifle foxed.
- Chemise spine sl. discoloured. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
- Vertical margins trimmed to the block. Otherwise fine.
= From the ehon Kishi enpu (Mr Aoi's Chronicle of Charm) (Osaka, ±1803).
- Red colour of the flower trifle bleeding. Otherwise fine.
- Doubled w. Japanese. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
- Some lvs. w. sm. wormholes.
= Seitei was one of the first Japanese Nihonga painters to visit Europe, attending the 1878 International Exhibition in Paris and being awarded a medal. Bijutsu Sekai was one of the most influential Japanese art magazines of the Meiji period, published between 1890 and 1894.
= Later edition by Unsodo from the original block.
Shunko (20th cent.). Moon at Miyajima. Col. woodcut chûban, signed Shunko and w. artist's seal in red in the block, without publisher (fine).
- Fine copy.
= Bon festivals are held during the summer when the spirits of the deceased visit their relatives in this world and are entertained by them.
- Foxed spot in the middle of upper margin; traces of former mounting on verso.
= From the series Yakumo no chigiri.
- One on attached lvs. as issued and 2 w. vertical fold in centre; partly cut on the border line; a few wormholes mainly along margins.