5212 - 5421 FINE ARTS - JAPANESE PRINTS, DRAWINGS and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ORIENTAL ARTS
- Fine, very good impresssion. Binding trifle rubbed.
- With owner's stamp on title-p. Strings loosening.
- Partly sl. stained; occas. coloured in w. red pencil; w. later annots. in pencil in blank margins. Binding worn, partly nibbled at upper outer corner; threads loosening.
= A book of mostly comb designs, but also featuring some animals, people and scenery designs.
AND 2 other ehon.
- All sl. faded and (sl.) (finger)soiled; all. w. remnants of previous mounting on verso.
= Shows people making mochi (rice cakes), doing laundry and walking in the rain. From vol. 1 of Hokusai gafu (Hokusai's Picture Album).
AND 1 other similar.
- Slightly browned.
Shunshô (1726-1792). (Scene from the Tale of Ise, with a poem). Col. woodcut chûban, signed Shunshô-ga, ±1766.
- Browned and sl. dam.; under passepartout.
AND 3 others, i.a. FUKUSHIMA RINSHUN (1811-1882), (Female artisan at work) (col. woodcut, signed Rinshun w. red seal. Sl. creased).
- Lacks the first vol. (jô). Portfolio (sl.) dam.
- Bookedges trifle/ sl. foxed at top and foot; black ink sl. fuzzy throughout. Inside of cloth portfolio trifle/ sl. foxed.
- Most vols. (sl.) wormholed; wr. sl. soiled/ rubbed.
= An early work listing master craftspeople specializing in katana fittings, as well as netsuke carvers.
- A few barely visible spots of foxing in bottom third of the print, and edges of blank margins trifle/ sl. browned, but otherwise fine.
= The New Wave, p.192: "This delicately conceived image, which was exhibited in the Tôkyôkai ten ('Exhibition of the Tokyo society'), is particularly close in style to a painting of the same name by Shinsui created fifteen years later. Compared to many of his prints of beautiful women, the composition of Blizzard is not static. The artist has created an illusion of movement through the woman's (a geisha?) flowing garment and her stance as she braces herself, with umbrella in hand, against the harsh winter wind." No. 184/250 (on verso). From the series Gendai bijinshû dainishû (Second collection of modern beauties). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
- Wrappers and edges sl. foxed; otherwise fine.
= Rare complete set comprising: The Story of Peach-boy; The Old Man with the Wen; The Old Man Who Made Trees to Blossom; Hidesato of the Rice Bale; The Mirror of Matsuyama; The Goblin Mountain; The Jewel Spring; The Story of Kachi-Kachi Yama; The Tea-Kettle of Good Luck; Do-Nothing-Taro; The Crab's Revenge and The Tongue-Cut Sparrow.
- Sl. browned and w. sl. wrinkled corners. = From the series Twenty-five Views of Mount Fuji.
- Contents waterst. and sl. fingersoiled. Binding (sl.) worn.
= The story of Jiraiya, a "chivalrous thief" ninja.
Anonymous (19th cent.). Shichifuku shichinan zukai (Gathered Pictures of Seven Fortunes and Seven Misfortunes). N.pl., n.publ., n.d., vol. 4 (of ?), 5 double-p. (tinted) woodcut ills., bound as a blockbook.
- First leaf w. sm, portion cut out of upper blank margin; w. some annots. in brush and ink in blank margin; sl. fingersoiled. Binding worn and w. annots. in brush and ink.
AND 1 odd vol. of Jiraiya gôketsu monogatari (The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya).
- Each w. binding holes; sl. browned; edges partly trifle frayed.
= Five detailed kimono designs from an unidentified pattern book.
- Mounted onto thick paper; w. a few sm. holes along lower edge. A very nice impression.
= Actor Nakamura Komanosuke as Hanzo in the play Ôga no Yogatari. Left panel of a diptych(?).
- Volume 5 frontwr. soiled.
= Two vols. of sketches depicting landscapes, flora and fauna, and objects of daily life.
- First and final ill. pasted to wr.; w. a few closed wormholes; closed dam. spot in blank margin. Wr. (sl.) worn/ dam. and w. new strings.
= Rare work from this relatively unknown artist, active in Osaka in the mid- to late 18th century.
= Caricature of China as a paper tiger during the first Sino-Japanese war, after the fall of Port Arthur. From the series Nippon Banzei Hyakusen Hyakushô (Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories. One Hundred Laughs).
AND 1 other by the same from the same series.