5212 - 5421 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- With a few lightly creased spots (unobtrusive), but otherwise a good copy.
= Station no. 46 from the series Gojû-san tsugi meisho zue, "Famous sights of the fifty-three stations", also known as the Vertical Tôkaidô.
= Modern impression from a recut block. From the series of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
Idem. (Fireworks at Ryôgoku). Col. woodcut ôban, signed Hiroshige ga, w. publishers seals.
- Laid down on board. = Twentieth century impression from a recut block. From the same series.
AND 2 others by the same from the same series: Nakagawa River Mouth and Dam on the Otonashi River at Ôji (both laid down, both cut to the image, 19th cent. impressions).
- Cut on the borderline w. loss of publishing information and seals; doubled w. Japanese w. new margins; under passepartout.
= From the series Meisho Edo Hyakkei (One hundred famous views of Edo). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
= A modern reproduction of Tsuchiyama from the series Tôkaidô gojûsan-tsugi.
- Trifle/ sl. foxed.
= Meiji reprint of the latter two volumes (of 4) of an homage to the paintings of Rinpa School artist Ogata Kôrin, first published in 1815 (the first two vols.) on the anniversary of his death. Comprises only the latter two volumes, the "sequel", first printed in 1826.
= A late 19th century re-issue of the work first published in 1817, showcasing the work of Rinpa painter Sakai Hôitsu. Cf. Hillier, p.661-665.
- Contents partly sl. waterst. and a trifle soiled. Wrs. loose and (sl.) soiled/ dam.
= Totoya Hokkei was Hokusai's first and most well-known student.
- Partly sl. waterst. in upper blank margin; sl. soiled; a few prints w. small wormholes.
= Probably all leaves from the 1890 reprint of Hokkei's 1829 work about the classic Chinese novel, "The Water Margin" (Suikoden in Japanese), which tells the story of a group of 108 rebels living at the edge of Liangshan Marsh who helped to protect the poor and oppressed.
= From the series Suiko gogyô (Suikoden and the Five Elements). Keyes copies of Surimono 57, copy B.
- Creased; horizontal fold; soiled.
= With unidentified collector's mark "NSL" within red oval on verso. A scene from the play The Palace of Eternal Life by the playwright Hong Sheng, telling the love story between emperor Xuanzong of Tang and his favorite imperial consort Yang Guifei.
- Soiled; (sl.) rubbed; 2 p. w. annots./ scribbling in brush and ink. Binding worn and soiled; modern strings.
- Three lvs. w. closed wormhole in inner margin; w. tipped-in slip of paper w. typeface information and annots. Later title-strip on frontcover w. title in ballpoint; rebound. A good copy.
= A work based on classical Confucian writings.
Idem. Chinsetsu yumiharizuki (Strange Tales of the Crescent Moon). Vol. 2. Edo (Tokyo), Hirabayashi Shôgorô, (±1807), 1 vol. (of 30), (14) lvs., 17 (double-p.) woodcut ills. by HOKUSAI, bound as a blockbook, later wr.
- Bottom portion of all pages dam./ lacking a section (but all restored); all textp. stuck together in restoration process, only illustrated pages can be read; lower outer corners very fingersoiled.
= Volume 2 (of 30) of an Edo-period novel series by Takizawa Bakin (1767-1848), who was very influential in the proliferation of the yomihon (literally: reading book). The story follows the historical figure Minamoto no Tametomo (1139-1170).
- Both worn in lower half and w. dam. (restored) corners.
ADDED: 4 anonymous col. woodcut bookillustrations/ prints, i.a. a dragon, two cranes by a pine tree and a warrior on horseback surrounded by his retainers.
- Occasionally trifle/ sl. (finger)soiled; wr. sl. soiled; modern strings.
- With owner's stamp on title-p. and sm. ticket on frontwr.
- Occasionally trifle fingersoiled. Binding sl. soiled; modern strings.
- Binding trifle/ sl. soiled and w. loosening modern strings.
- One page trifle foxed, otherwise fine; very good impression.
- Pastedowns and endpapers trifle foxed. Binding trifle rubbed along extremities.
- Binding trifle rubbed; threads loosening.