5212 - 5421 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- Lower outer corners sl. fingersoiled; occas. trifle soiled. Binding soiled.
Moronobu (1638-1714) (after). Wakoku hyakkujô (One Hundred Women of Japan). Kyoto, Unsodô, n.d., (34) lvs., 43 (mostly double-p.) woodcut ills. after MORONOBU, bound as a blockbook w. hashira-title, 4to.
= Modern facsimile of the work first published in 1694, showing women in various situations and activities, such as drinking tea, dancing, travelling, sewing, producing textiles, and playing musical instruments among others things.
= A volume about (mathematical) methods for land surveying and on infrastructure.
- First three lvs. w. sm. wormhole; occas. trifle foxed. Binding rubbed at corners, and lacks title-strip.
- Slightly waterst./ w. some foxed spots (not affecting image); paper w. a few (restored) dam. spots.
- Slightly soiled; binding idem.
= With red collector's stamp "CRA" in circle w. snowdrop flower on first and last page. Comprises finely drawn designs of i.a. animals, flowers, objects and (supernatural) figures.
- Trifle/ sl. fingersoiled; sl. waterst. in blank upper outer corner; partly w. one sm. wormhole. Binding (sl.) soiled; new strings loosening.
= Contains numerous kyôka poems, divided by subject, all of which relate to the weather and astronomical phenomena. Each page is illustrated, showing mostly people, presumably engaged in composing, reciting or listening to poetry.
Dôkan (1432-1486). Dôkan shiga (Dôkan's Poems Ilustrated). Vol. 2. N.pl., Yoshitakashi-ya, n.d., 31 lvs., 1 vol. (of ?), 62 woodcut ills. (by?), bound as a blockbook w. hashira-title.
- With tipped in papercutting w. annots. Two tickets on frontwr.; new strings.
AND 1 other ehon.
- Binding worn; new strings.
= A music text book, teaching sight reading through solfège. With the name of the original owner, fourth year student Takashima Asakichi (or Senkichi), written on the backcover w. brush and ink.
AND 5 other 19th century Japanese textbooks on i.a. science and geography, all w. woodcut ills. and text.
- With a few creases.
= Shows Monju bosatsu, or Manjushri boddhisattva, seated on a lion and holding a ruyi scepter. Monju is the boddhisattva embodying intellect and wisdom. Him sitting on a lion represents the power of wisdom to tame the mind.
= Shows a group of old men struggling to ascend a (mountain?)path. They are helped by two bald men in green robes, probably two monks, which would suggest that the travellers are pilgrims on their way to a temple.
- (Slightly) creased; w. a few closed wormholes.
AND a kakejiku with a calligraphed poem on a fan-shape.
- Silk laid down on paper.
- Partly trifle foxed.
= Various illutrations depicting i.a. the Seven Lucky Gods, a monkey handing a piece of fruit to a crab in clothes, a warrior on horseback, and various animals and plants. Including some illustrations by KONO BAIREI (1844-1895).
- Binding trifle/ sl. dam.
= With ink manuscript title(?) on frontwr. mentioning "Sôrin-sensei" (Master Sôrin). Contains designs of i.a. flora and fauna, scenery, people and objects.
= Probably a design for a fan print, possibly by SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891). Shows a scene from the Japanese fairy tale Shitakiri suzume (The sparrow with the cut tongue).
- Possibly trimmed but without loss of image; one print w. strip of paper pasted on left blank margin.
= Style of KUNISADA, but unsigned.
AND 3 others, i.a. TANAKA SHÔSABURÔ (Samurai holding up a streaming vat of water, with a castle in the background) (col. woodcut bookill. on 2 attached lvs., 20,5x29 cm., 1890).
- Each w. vertical centre fold, 1x torn on fold; trifle yellowed/ soiled.
= Mostly birds and flowers, in the style of Kono Bairei.
- Slightly yellowed; 1x trifle foxed along top.
AND 3 woodcut prints from e-hon, i.a. HOKUSAI (1760-1849), (Pilgrims descending mount Fuji) (tinted woodcut ill. from Fugaku hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji), ±1849).
- With two dam. spots where paint has chipped off; tipped onto mount.
= Showing a Heian-period (794-1185) courtier visiting a lady, probably a lover, at her quarters. Probably a scene from The Tale of Genji or The Tale of Ise.