- 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).

- Tipped onto mount; both prints waterstained; sm. wormhole in right margin of righthand print; possibly originally a triptych, the middle section lacking.

- Sm. hole (paper flaw) in fence.

= 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.

= Perhaps an unused hanshita-e.

- 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.

- Prob. part of diptych or triptych.

- Sl. yellowed?

= From the series Honcho kendo ryaku den (Abridged Stories of Our Countrys Swordsmanship). Robinson S37.19.

- Fine copy. = Unsigned print.

= With the orig. accomp. flimsy with letterpress information on the print (in English and Japanese).

= From the series Kisokaido.

- 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.

- Some tiny scratches and rubbed spots.

- Some vague traces of former rolling.

- 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.

- 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).

- A few holes, creases and surface dam. spots.