5318 - 5509 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- Binding holes near left or right edge. = Rare.
- Rebacked w. Japanese (w. annots. in brush and ink on it); occas. sl. creased and lacking flecks of colour, particularly along right margin; sm. remants of glue in lower corners. Nevertheless an attractive print.
= Upper panel of an asymmetrical triptych, showing actors Nakamura Jakuemon I as Dokuro and Arashi Rikan III as Nozarashi Gosuke, in Act 3 of the play Keisei Kuruwa no Kadomatsu (The New Year Pine Tree of the Pleasure Quarters).
- Two panels glued together; edges w. remnants of brown paper; verso of right panel w. red (ink?) lines not visible on recto.
= From the series Seichû gishi meimeiden (Biographies of the Faithful Samurai).
- Right panel lacks large portion of print along right side, incl. title-cartouche, replaced w. part of another woodcut; all lvs. w. fold 3 cm. from right side; all tipped onto mount in upper corners.
- Trifle wormholed and sl. yellowed; folded twice; a few false creases.
- Two lvs. pasted together and doubled w. Japanese; sm. closed wormhole in the centre along top; w. a few brown spots, otherwise fine.
- Lacks middle panel of the triptych. Right panel w. two stains; both sl. soiled/ browned.
AND 2 other col. woodcuts ôban, left and central panel of a triptych by unidentified artist (Kunisada III?), no signature, publ. unread (w. some holes and a tear, seemingly due to a reaction to the dye, otherwise fine).
- With a few tiny pinholes; left blank margin sl. spotted/ frayed; lower right corner w. sm. stain.
= No. 10 from the series Kinsei jimbutsushi (Personalities of Recent Times) published as a supplement to the Yamato shinbun (Yamato Newspaper).
Idem. Tomobayashi Mitsuhira. Col. woodcut ôban, signed Yoshitoshi w. red Taiso seal, publ. Yamato shinbunsha, 1888.
- Left blank margin w. hole; upper and lower right corners creased; sl./ trifle spotted (dampst.?).
= No 19 from the same series as the above.
Idem. Saigô Takamori. Col. woodcut ôban, signed Yoshitoshi w. red Taiso seal, publ. Yamato shinbunsha, 1888.
- Slightly soiled/ sained/ foxed. = No. 17 from the same series as the above.
Idem. Egawa Tarozaemon. Col. woodcut ôban, signed Yoshitoshi w. red Taiso seal, publ. Yamato shinbunsha, 1887.
- Margins cut off, except for part of the upper margin (resulting in loss of publishing information); w. a few wormholes; lower left corner w. tear; textbox along top w. some transfer of red dye.
= No. 13 from the same series as the preceding.
- No. 16: margins cut off, w. loss of publishing information; doubled; a few spots. No. 25: left margin sl. creased/ wrinkled. No. 47: three holes mostly in right blank margin; doubled; sl. soiled; left margin cut sl. short. No. 83: doubled; right margin browned; left margin cut sl. short. No. 85: trifle browned/ yellowed and wi. a soiled spot, otherwise fine.
= Comprises: 16. Michizane composes a poem about the moon; 25: Gravemarker moon; 47. Fujiwara no Kintô plucks a plum blossom; 83. Gidayû writes his death poem; 85. Moon of the lonely house.
= From the series Yoshitoshi ryakuga (Quick drawings by Yoshitoshi).
- Slightly soiled; left margin cut sl. short, w. partial loss of publishing information; upper and lower blank margin sl. dam. and w. tape in upper corners.
= From the series Dai Nippon meishô kagami (Mirror of Famous General of Japan).