80 5135 Harunobu 1724 1770 
- Browned and faded; horizontal fold in the middle; (unobtrusive) crease along top-right margin. Verso shows traces of mounting; sticker pasted in lower left corner on verso; sm. repaired tear in the sleeve of the lower figure; reinforced section behind head of upper figure.
80 5136 Harunobu 1724 1770 
80 5136 Harunobu 1724 1770 
80 5136 Harunobu 1724 1770 
80 5136 Harunobu 1724 1770 
- Backed w. modern thin Japanese paper; leaf sl. rubbed and fingersoiled.
= From the ehon Haru no nishiki (The Brocade of Spring).
Toyokuni (1769-1825). (The actor Samuwara Gennosuke). Col. woodcut, 38x26 cm., signed Toyokuni ga, w. publisher seal.
- Closed wormholes.
AND 8 others, i.a. by SHIKIMARO and a small colour woodcut by HIROSHIGE and small actor prints on crepe paper by KUNICHIKA.
80 5137 Hiratsuka 1895 1997 
80 5137 Hiratsuka 1895 1997 
80 5138 Hiratsuka 1895 1997 
80 5138 Hiratsuka 1895 1997 
80 5139 Hiroshige 1797 1858 
- Unobtrusive vague horizontal crease in left side of horizon. Both vertical edges professionally strengthened on verso (not visible on recto); publ. mark cut trifle short. A fine copy.
= From the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One hundred views of famous places in Edo). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIV.
80 5140 Hiroshige 1797 1858 
- Four aitanzakuban mounted together under one passepartout. All in poor/ mediocre condition: partly dam., w. scratches, sl. foxed, partly yellowed/ browned. Sold w.a.f.
80 5141 Hiroshige 1797 1858 
- Somewhat foxed; red colour faded.
= Part of the series of Kisokaidô rokujûkyû tsugi no uchi (Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô Road).
80 5142 Hiroshige 1797 1858 
80 5142 Hiroshige 1797 1858 
- Fine copy.
= The second state. From the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (One hundred views of famous places in Edo). Hiroshige's most famous print. SEE ILLUSTRATION ON THE FRONTCOVER.
80 5143 Hiroshige 1797 1858 
- From a later recarved edition; sl. yellowed.
= Station no. 32 from the series Kisokaidô rokujûkyû tsugi no uchi (The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô Road).
80 5144 Hiroshige 1797 1858 after 
80 5144 Hiroshige 1797 1858 after 
- Lacks the final woodcut. Album. dam. Contents occas. sl. wrinkled.
80 5145 Hokusai 1760 1849 
80 5145 Hokusai 1760 1849 
- Modern copy; a few creases in right margin. = Cf. Forrer (1991), 11.
AND 1 other similar by the same: Mount Fuji from the mountains of Tôtômi (late 19th/ early 20th cent. copy, somewhat yellowed).
80 5146 Hokusai 1760 1849 
- Margins cut sl. short; former central fold strengthened on verso; sl. rubbed/ yellowed/ faded along edges; fingersoiled; the yellow colours seem faded, turning the green into blue.
= Early impression, from the series Shokoku meikyō kiran (Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces). Forrer 1991, 38.
80 5147 Hokusai 1760 1849 
80 5147 Hokusai 1760 1849 
80 5147 Hokusai 1760 1849 
- A few sm. (worm)holes in the sky; formerly bound w. binding holes near left edge.
= Twelfth print of the series Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki (One Hundred Poems explained by the nurse).
AND 2 other sm. prints.
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
80 5148 Iida Shikô 1896 1969 
- Heavily foxed, but particularly in the margins; some designs sl. dam. on the middle fold. Covers soiled and worn along boardedges.
= Each of these striking designs is inspired by one of the 100 poems of the Hyakunin isshu ("One hundred people, one verse"), famously compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) when he stayed in Ogura (near Kyoto). The poems are annotated at the end of each volume by Sasaki Nobutsuna, a poet and scholar of Nara- and Heian-period literature, whose work was supposedly the inspiration for Iida Shikô to create these designs. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
80/5149 Inrô Five case lacquer inrô with houses and pine trees by a mountain 
80/5149 Inrô Five case lacquer inrô with houses and pine trees by a mountain 
80/5149 Inrô Five case lacquer inrô with houses and pine trees by a mountain 
- Worn; some lacquer chipped off along the sides; w. some white powder/ mould(?) on the inside and in the crevices.
AND a four-case lacquer inrô with a dragon, peonies and a phoenix, wood and lacquer w. some goldleaf, 8x6x2 cm., 19th/ 20th century (lid and second compartment stuck together, string broken). - ADDED: a netsuke(?) with leafy decoration, wood and lacquer and goldleaf w. a metal ring, late 19th/ early 20th century (fine).
80 5150 Ito Nisaburo 1910 1988 
80 5150 Ito Nisaburo 1910 1988 
80/5151 Japan Lot of 10 woodblock prints and brush and ink drawings 
80/5151 Japan Lot of 10 woodblock prints and brush and ink drawings 
80/5151 Japan Lot of 10 woodblock prints and brush and ink drawings 
- Includes one hanging scroll mounted on thick board. All in mediocre state, some faded, some (sl.) yellowed/ browned/ foxed, some rebacked due to wormholes, or mounted (under passepartout).
80/5152 Japanese Fairy Tale Series No 1 Momotaro / No 14 The Princes Fire Flash & Fire Fade 
80/5152 Japanese Fairy Tale Series No 1 Momotaro / No 14 The Princes Fire Flash & Fire Fade 
80 5153 Japanese Fairy Tale Series No 5 8 
80 5153 Japanese Fairy Tale Series No 5 8 
80 5153 Japanese Fairy Tale Series No 5 8 
- The first two tales occas. a trifle foxed in the right margin (unobtrusive), but contents otherwise fine. Spine-ends sl. worn.
= From a series of 16 separate Japanese fairy tales, richly illustrated w. col. woodcuts, of which the following 4 have been bound together: no.5 Kachi-kachi mountain; no.6 The mouse's wedding; no.7 The old man and the devils, and no.8 The firsher-boy Urashima. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
80/5154 Japanese Fairy Tale Series No 22 The Flowers of Remembrance and Forgetfulness Told in English by Mrs T H James 
- Partly waterst., including frontcover; some of the fold. double-sided pages split open.
= No. 22 of the Japanese Fairy Tale Series.