4611 - 4784 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL and TRIBAL ARTS
79 4691 Kunisada 1786 1865 
- Vertical old fold w. wear in left margin. Paper tape around borders on verso.
= Station no. 51 of the series Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi (Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road).
79 4692 Kunisada 1786 1865 
- Tipped onto mount; both prints waterstained; sm. wormhole in right margin of righthand print; possibly originally a triptych, the middle section lacking.
79 4693 Kunisada 1786 1865 
- Sm. hole (paper flaw) in fence.
79 4694 Kunisada 1786 1865 
= Central part of the triptych with actors Iwai Kumesaburô III as the Weaver (Shokujo, one of the Paired Stars), on the right, Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the Night-crawling Star (Yobaiboshi no sei) (centre), and Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I as the Cowherd (Kengyû, one of the Paired Stars) on the left. Part of the play Jitsugetsusei Chûya no Oriwake, performed in the Ichimura theatre in Edo.
79 4695 Kunisada 1786 1865 circle/ studio of 
= Perhaps an unused hanshita-e.
79 4696 Kunisada 1786 1865 Hirosige II 1829 1869 and Kyosai 1831 1889 
- Sl. yellowed and fingersoiled.
= Plate no 13. from the series Edo no hana meisho-e awase (The Flowers of Edo Matched with Famous Places), which is a collaborative harimaze series. A group of three scenes: Sawamura Tanosuke as the Apprentice Chokichi by Kunisada, Masks by Kyosai and the Miyato River in Group North by Hiroshige II.
79 4697 Kuniteru 1808 1876 
- Prob. part of diptych or triptych.
79 4698 Kuniyoshi 1797 1861 
- Sl. yellowed?
= From the series Honcho kendo ryaku den (Abridged Stories of Our Countrys Swordsmanship). Robinson S37.19.
79 4699 Masao 1904 1974 
- Fine copy. = Unsigned print.
79 4700 Masao 1904 1974 
= With the orig. accomp. flimsy with letterpress information on the print (in English and Japanese).
79 4701 Nishijima Katsuyuki b 1945 
= From the series Kisokaido.
79 4702 Okuyama 1907 1981 
79 4703 Oriental art Anonymous 19th cent 
79 4704 Oriental art Anonymous 19th cent ? 
- Mounted on board; edges cut/ trimmed; sl. agetoned.
= Depicted is probably Pratap Singh I, popularly known as Maharana Pratap, a 16th century king of Mewar, who is said to have covered the face of his horse Chetak with an elephant mask in order to confuse the elephants in the army of his adversary Raja Maan Singh, during the battle of Haldighati. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
79 4705 Oriental art Anonymous 19th cent ? 
- Some tiny scratches and rubbed spots.
79 4706 Oriental art Anonymous late 19th cent/ early 20th cent 
- Some vague traces of former rolling.
79/4707 Oriental art Pabuji Ki Phad Pabuji of the painted scroll 
- Some restorations (several sections have been reattached to each other); sl. worn along lower margin.
= "Pabuji ki phad is traditionally rendered on a red textile that bears the principal characters, the figures of Pabuji and Devanarayanji - a reincarnation of Vishnu. The bhopas would commission Chiteros (painters), members of the Chhipa caste, to create the phads to use in their performances. The phad used to be very large with the paintings of Pabuji being 13 arm-lengths long and Devnarayanjis being 30 feet long. They were painted using hand-woven coarse cotton cloth, which would be soaked overnight to thicken the threads. It was then starched with rice or wheat flour and then dried. The surface would be rubbed with moonstone for smoothening. The processing and painting both use only natural goods (...)" (https://mapacademy.io/article/pabuji-ki-phad/). Impressive tapestry, brimfull of diverse scenes showing i.a. a tiger hunt, several parades around the margins; numerous horseriding men etc. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
79 4709 Oriental miniatures Anonymous early 18th cent ? 
- A few leaves (water)stained; library stamp of "Musée Tack Ypres Bibliothèque" on verso of final free endpaper (not traced) and w. catalogue clipping describing the work as "Manuscrit Turc" ["Turc" crossed out] and the contents as "poésies et contes, en turc". Spine-ends worn.
= The nice gouache shows a seated woman in a garden, playing the rebab (an Arabic bowed instrument).
79 4710 Oriental miniatures Anonymous 2nd half 18th cent 
- A few holes, creases and surface dam. spots.