- Doubled w. Japanese, closing several scattered wormholes.
- Vertical margins trifle cut short (affecting publisher's name and censor seals).
= From the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo).
AND 3 20th cent. restrikes of prints by HIROSHIGE, i.a. a copy of Edo Kinko Hakkei (Autumn Moon over Tama River) and of Ishiyakushi ishiyakushiji (Ishiyakushi Temple).
- First print w. closed wormholes in right lower corner; 2nd print w. very sm. closed tears in left margin, just within the image; sl. soiled.
= Print no.12 and 55 of the Jinbutsu Tôkaidô series (The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road).
AND 4 col. woodcuts by the same, all illustrations from an unidentified ehon, all landscapes.
- Sl. foxed and sl. yellowed; strengthened along margins on recto.
AND 2 other col. woodcut ôban, by HIROSHIGE and KUNISADA, both wormholed (the latter also fingersoiled).
- Fine. = From the series Tôkaidô - Gojûsan tsugi no uchi (The Tôkaidô Road - The Fifty-three Stations).
Idem. Hitorizuka (Seki: The solitary grave). Col. woodcut, 16x22,1 cm., signed Hiroshige ga, publisher Tsutaya Kichizo.
- Cus sl. short in top margin and trimmed to the border in right margin.
= From the same series.
AND 1 other by the same (damaged).
- Box sl. faded. Otherwise very fine. = Published under editorship of Munishige Narazaki and Sadao Kikuchi.
- Three horizontal folds; doubled w. Japanese.
= The poem above the snowy branches reads "Oshidori no, sakazuki to chiyo, usukori" and translates as: For mandarin ducks/ thin ice is a wedding cup/ for a thousand year.
AND 2 others (both sl. creased and sl. stained).
- Left part only; yellowed; some portions paper restored.
AND a small woodcut by the same(?) showing people on rowing boats and sails behind waves.
- Sl. creased and strengthened in left margin; sm. frayed spot in left margin.
AND a col. woodcut ôban by KUNIHIRO (Lady in a garden near a gate) (creased and sl. waterstained; paper mounting tickets on verso in all corners).
- Good set. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
- Yellowed.
= Later copy (with various small differences). Part of the series Fugaku sanjūrokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji).
Idem. (A man chasing away two demons). Woodcut on two lvs., 19x26 cm.
= Illustration from an unidentified e-hon.
AND 4 others.
= Views along the Tokaido road.
- Upper blank corner restored.
Gochiku (act. mid-20th cent.). (Fireflies on leaves, a giant fan-shaped moon in the background). Col. woodcut, printed with silver pigment, 23x22,5 cm., signed Gochiku, w. artist's seal printed in red.
- Both fine 20th cent. recarved copies.
- Both in very fine condition. Both w. "Made in Japan" stamp on verso.
= Provenance: Robert O. Muller collection. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.
- Minimal traces of mounting on verso. Otherwise a very fine copy.
= From the series Nogaku hyakuban (One hundred Noh plays). Schaap/ Rimer, The Beauty of Silence, appendix no. 106 and 107. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVII.