5318 - 5509 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- Fine copies.
= Later restrikes from recut blocks. from the series Fuji sanjurokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji).
- Margins sl. cut short, affecting part of the publisher and aratame seals.
= From the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Famous Places of Edo). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
- Cut out picture from a larger ôban print. Tipped onto mount in three corners; sl. soiled.
= Part of No. 12: Ishibe, Kusatsu, Ôtsu, Kyoto, from the series Tôkaidô harimaze zue (Cut out Pictures of the Tôkaidô Road).
Hasegawa, Konobu (act. late 19th cent.). (Seven Lucky Gods). Col. woodcut, chû-tanzaku yoko-e (15x36 cm.), signed Konobu-sen(?), publ. Motoya Yasuzô, ±1860-1870.
- Blank margins cut off; sl. dam. spot along right side.
- Margins trimmed; sl. yellowed.
= From the series Shokoku meisho hyakkei (100 Famous Views in the Various Provinces).
- Mostly sl. waterstained in lower left corner; partly w. sl. dam./ chipped in lower corner(s)/ margin; all prints w. sm. binding holes in right margin.
= The lot contains the following nos: 2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 35 and 36. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Blank margins mostly under passe-partout, possibly cut sl. short; sl. rubbed lower corners; colours faded.
= From the series Shokoku meisho hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Famous Places in the Provinces).
- Lacks 7 prints from the series; album split.
= Combination of Buddhist temples and miracles of Kannon. According to Horst Graebner (Kunisada.de) the total series was intended to consist of 100 prints (33 for the western, 33 for the eastern and 34 for the central provinces), but it is uncertain if the series was ever completed. The prints in this lot represent the temples of the Western Provinces. Present are no. 1-3, 5-12, 14, 16, 18-21, 24, 25, 27-33. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
- Slightly wormholed. Both vols. wr. sl. rubbed/ soiled; later strings.
= From the series Suiko gogyô (Suikoden and the Five Elements). Keyes copies of Surimono 57, copy B.
- Creased; horizontal fold; soiled.
= With unidentified collector's mark "NSL" within red oval on verso. A scene from the play The Palace of Eternal Life by the playwright Hong Sheng, telling the love story between emperor Xuanzong of Tang and his favorite imperial consort Yang Guifei.
- Three lvs. w. closed wormhole in inner margin; w. tipped-in slip of paper w. typeface information and annots. Later title-strip on frontcover w. title in ballpoint; rebound. A good copy.
= A work based on classical Confucian writings. Provenance: Felix Tikotin.
Idem. Chinsetsu yumiharizuki (Strange Tales of the Crescent Moon). Vol. 2. Edo (Tokyo), Hirabayashi Shôgorô, (±1807), 1 vol. (of 30), (14) lvs., 17 (double-p.) woodcut ills. by HOKUSAI, bound as a blockbook, later wr.
- Bottom portion of all pages dam./ lacking a section (but all restored); all textp. stuck together in restoration process, only illustrated pages can be read; lower outer corners very fingersoiled.
= Volume 2 (of 30) of an Edo-period novel series by Takizawa Bakin (1767-1848), who was very influential in the proliferation of the yomihon (literally: reading book). The story follows the historical figure Minamoto no Tametomo (1139-1170).
= Restrikes by Takamizawa from recut blocks, with his/ their stamp on verso of the prints.
- Probably a Meiji period edition.
= From the series Hyaku monogatari (One Hundred Ghost Tales). Hillier 273. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
= Depicting the eruption of Mount Fuji in 1707, which created Hôeizan (Mount Hôei). This volcanic eruption had disastrous consequences for the people in the surrounding areas, resulting in famine and landslides.
ADDED: 2 unidentified leafs of an e-hon, potentially a rendition of Hyakkunin isshu (One hundred poems by one hundred famous poets).
- Covers sl. creased and one binding cord loose (as a result covers loosening). Contents occas. trifle fingersoiled in lower outer corner, otherwise fine.
= Forrer p.227, B2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- Contents complete and fine. Lacks backstrip; wr. sl. duststained; backwr. loose.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
- A few barely visible spots of foxing in bottom third of the print, and edges of blank margins trifle/ sl. browned, but otherwise fine.
= The New Wave, p.192: "This delicately conceived image, which was exhibited in the Tôkyôkai ten ('Exhibition of the Tokyo society'), is particularly close in style to a painting of the same name by Shinsui created fifteen years later. Compared to many of his prints of beautiful women, the composition of Blizzard is not static.The artist has created an illusion of movement through the woman's (a geisha?) flowing garment and her stance as she braces herself, with umbrella in hand, against the harsh winter wind." No. 184/250. From the series Gendai bijinshû dainishû (Second collection of modern beauties). SEE ILLUSTRATION ON FRONTCOVER.
- A few sm. defects, mostly fine. = Comprises 3 views of mount Fuji, 2 views of Nagasaki.
- Slightly yellowed; a few vague horizontal folds; nevertheless a fine drawing. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
