5119 - 5225 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- Both browned and faded; both (partially) mounted on board.
- Very fine.
= From the series Shinsen Taiko Ki (New Biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi). Rare.
- Contents occas. sl. fingersoiled, but otherwise a good copy. Wrs. creased and (sl.) worn; lacks lower part of hashira-title.
= A series of woodcut illustrations showing Japanese people in everyday situations. People are shown at work or at leisure, for example having a nap, selling their wares or making merry.
- Re-backed w. Japanese text leaf; trifle soiled, w. a stain on the title cartouche.
= The right panel of a tryptich.
= Probably a later edition, ±1920.
- Laid down on mount.
= Perhaps an unused hanshita-e or a prelimimary design. With the collector's mark of Berend Modderman (1870-1944) (not in Lugt) on verso mount.
- Outer margins laid down under passepartout.