Nº S00732 Mitsui miyako no nishiki - Mitsui-brocade
pictures from the capitol city.
Titel: The saesons and their fashions.
12 woodblock prints and a title page as a picture
handscroll.
At twelve pictures ladies and
girls are shown in different surroundings doing
various activities, always dressed suitable
for the season. The title page shows an opened
book with flowers in the background.
Signature: Toshikata.
Seal: Shô, Setsu.
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon, Tokyo.
Date: 1896/97.
Size: 13 Aiban as a picture handscroll.
Perfect impression and fresh colours with much
silver, gradations of colour (bokashi), and
relief printing.
Excellent condition. Paper
sometimes a little bit time-stained at the margins.
First
edition of this series, ordered by the business
house Mitsui.
The New Wave, Leiden 1993, page 92, no 55.
€
3.400,- |
Gallery for Japanese Woodblock
Prints • Paintings • Scrolls • Folding Screens
Ukiyo-e
• Shin Hanga • Sosaku Hanga • Edo-, Meiji-,
Taisho-, Showa- Period
Folk Art - Mingei
• Dolls - Ningyo • Fans - Ogi, Uchiwa • Chests
- Tansu |
