5212 - 5421 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- Occas. sl. yellowed/ browned; a few w. folds; mounts yellowed.
= Very delicate illustrations of i.a. animals, objects, ornaments, plants and some yôkai (ghosts and demons).
AND 4 other Japanese drawings in brush and ink on thin Japanese, and 1 woodcut bookillustration.
- Damaged at bottom, lacking wooden rod and probably part of silk border; waterst.; bottom half creased; sold w.a.f.
- Slightly creased and foxed.
Anonymous (late 19th cent.). (Mountains, a waterfall and trees, with two buildings and travellers). Kakejiku (hanging scroll), brush and ink on paper, within modern silk borders, ±130x51 cm. (image), ±198x65 cm. (total size), signature unread, w. seal, rolled on wooden stick w. wooden ends.
- Slightly browned; trifle foxed and w. a few creases.
= The Republican and the Wuchang uprising (later army) flag on top of the altar, suggest a date for this drawing between 1913 and 1928.
- Two lvs. w. central vertical fold; one leaf w. binding holes; otherwise all fine.
- With 3 sm. brown spots, otherwise fine.
AND 6 other ink drawings of bamboo and flowers. - ADDED: 2 sheets of calligraphy, including a large calligraphed character "yokoshima", meaning wicked, evil or wrong.
- Both trifle foxed, mostly in blank margins.
= Showing blue and pink convolvulus with a white bird, and unidentified blue and pink flowers with a white butterfly.
- All vols. w. vertical crease in the centre, affecting prints; occas. trifle foxed. Good impressions. = Complete set.
- With sm. holes along right side; bottom and right side (sl.) trimmed within borderline; sl, faded.
= Centre panel of a triptych.
Idem. (Actors Onoe Kikugorô III as Kanshôjô, Asao Gakujûrô I as Takebe Genzô and Arashi Shagan I as Mareo). Two col. woodcut ôban, signed (Gigadô) Ashiyuki-ga, publisher Honsei, 1826.
- Both trimmed withing borderline w. loss of text.
= Left and centre panel of a triptych.
AND 1 other by SHUNKÔSAI HOKUSHÛ (act. ±1802-1832).
- Slightly yellowed.
Anonymous (19th cent.). (Imperial figure on a cloud with attendant and two guardians). Watercolour on paper, 37,5x30 cm., East-Asian.
- With two closed dam. spots; sl. browned; backed w. thin wove paper.
AND 5 (hand-)(col.) woodcut prints, i.a. ANONYMOUS (late 19th- early 20th cent.), (Peonies covered by a net, a bird perched on a stick) (col. woodcut ill. from an unidentified e-hon) and UTAGAWA KOKUNIMASA (1874-1944), (Panel from the Japanese victory at the naval battle off Dagu Mountain) (col. woodcut w. gaufrage, 1894. Central panel from a 6-panel polyptych. Trimmed and w. one closed tear).
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper; lower corner dogeared; occas. sl. waterstained in lower blank margin.Wrapper heavily soiled.
= Georges Bigot entered Japan in 1882 and soon became drawing master at the military academy in Tokyo. Between 1883 and 1886 Bigot published four albums, one of which is Croquis Japonais. In them he paints a broad picture of Japanese daily life, but also of its more decadent aspects. His caricaturising of Japanese society did not go down well with the Japanese authorities, who in effect forced him to limit his critique to Westerners in Japan only. Disappointed with the increasing censure, he left Japan for France in 1899. His Croquis Japonais are a fine example of Japonisme at its best. Bigot shows people of different ranks of life ("Servant", "Facteur", "Spectateur", "Un Elégant", "Officier", "Chanteuses des rues", "Pêcheurs", "Bonzes", "Acteurs"), landscapes and various activities (i.a. two ladies playing a game of badminton, a lady at a hairdresser's). Rare and complete.
- Triptych leaves partly attached to each other w. paper on verso. A good copy.
- All fine.
- All sl./ trifle foxed; a few dam. spots. Album sl. defective.
= Showing an emperor on his throne, an empress and various court figures, i.a. a princess, royal concubine, general, court official. All attended by servants. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
- Some watercolours loose(ning); 3 watercolours sl. dam. in margins; a few watercolours w. small wormhole(s).
= A very attractive series of watercolours, mostly of butterflies on flowers and all in sparkling bright colours. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE L.
- Mostly with small wormhole(s).
= All showing village views and landscapes in a slightly naive manner.
- Blue silk borders partly loose(ning); a few watercolours w. sm. cracks/ wormholes and/ or sm. holes. Fine series of tourist views.
= Incl. fine views of i.a. the Praya Grande in Macau with numerous moored ships, the American, British and Danish factories in Canton, Whampoa Anchorage, a view of Hong Kong, and several other unidentified (harbour) views. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE L.
- Partly (sl.) dam. w. tears/ chips; occas. trifle foxed.
= Showing flowers with butterflies, two family scenes, a pavilion in a garden and fruit and flowers.