Bijutsu Hoko
By Marui, Eikichi
Japanese softcover wrappers, minor soiling and marks, as usual. Original bindings bound-in. TItle plates intact. TItles hand-written to spines as well. Ex-ownership stickers to upper wrappers, occasional stamps and stickers to contents. Occasional marks and small stains to contents also. One 6.5 cm hole (resulting from a burn) in the fukuro-toji verso of the colophon of issue 1, not affecting text. Lacks the `additional leaf` of v.6 and v.8. Issues 1-8 (bound in 2) of a Meiji period art magazine published in Tokyo, including over 70 lavishly coloured woodblock-printed plates (some folding) by reknowned artists such as Shibata Zeshin, Katsushika Hokusai, Sakai Hoitsu, Ogata Korin, Hiroshige Ando, Maruyama Okyo, and many other Japanese masters. Includes the last work painted by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka while he was in hospital. Sets such as these are very rare. Includes non-original slipcase. Eight issues bound in two volumes. Text in Japanese.
Published by: Gahakudo 1895-1896, 1895
Vendor: Kagerou Bunko (ABAJ, ILAB)
By Marui, Eikichi
Japanese softcover wrappers, minor soiling and marks, as usual. Original bindings bound-in. TItle plates intact. TItles hand-written to spines as well. Ex-ownership stickers to upper wrappers, occasional stamps and stickers to contents. Occasional marks and small stains to contents also. One 6.5 cm hole (resulting from a burn) in the fukuro-toji verso of the colophon of issue 1, not affecting text. Lacks the `additional leaf` of v.6 and v.8. Issues 1-8 (bound in 2) of a Meiji period art magazine published in Tokyo, including over 70 lavishly coloured woodblock-printed plates (some folding) by reknowned artists such as Shibata Zeshin, Katsushika Hokusai, Sakai Hoitsu, Ogata Korin, Hiroshige Ando, Maruyama Okyo, and many other Japanese masters. Includes the last work painted by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka while he was in hospital. Sets such as these are very rare. Includes non-original slipcase. Eight issues bound in two volumes. Text in Japanese.
Published by: Gahakudo 1895-1896, 1895
Vendor: Kagerou Bunko (ABAJ, ILAB)
