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Toto shokei ichiran (Fine views of the eastern capital at a glance) Ehon azuma asobi (Entertainments of the east)
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), illustrator
Toto shokei ichiran (Fine views of the eastern capital at a glance) Ehon azuma asobi (Entertainments of the east)
The first, no colophon, n.d. [1815], published by Subaraya Mohei Subaraya Ihachi and Hishiya Kimbei, fukurotoji-bon, vol. 1 of 2 vols.; the second, no colophon, n.d. [1802], fukurotoji-bon, 1 vol., incomplete, both block-printed in color, in pale-blue wrappers painted in green and ink with irises, the first with paper label inscribed in ink in Japanese and Roman letters with title and author, sewn--good impressions, slightly faded and toned, slight foxing throughout, slightly soiled along edges on the bottom, some pages marked in pencil, the first, wrapper worn
Contents: first, 10 leaves, numbered 1-10, single-page introduction, 9 double-page illustrations and 1 single-page illustration below poems; the second; 8 leaves, numbered, 6 single-page and 5 double-page illustrations, titled Asakusa nori (Seaweed of Asakusa); Oji inari yashiro (Oji Inari Shrine); Oji Ebiya (Ebiya restaurant at Oji); Surugacho Echigo-ya (Echigoya at Suruga-cho); Jukken mise hina ichi (Ten-stall hina doll market); untitled (Dutch house); Motoyui sho (Hair-ribbon maker); Mimeguri jinja (Mimeguri Shrine): untitled (dyer); Imado sato (Imado village); and Ezoshi ten (Bookshop [Tsutaya Juzaburo])
25.7 x 17.5cm.; and 26.6 x 17.5cm. (2)
Toto shokei ichiran (Fine views of the eastern capital at a glance) Ehon azuma asobi (Entertainments of the east)
The first, no colophon, n.d. [1815], published by Subaraya Mohei Subaraya Ihachi and Hishiya Kimbei, fukurotoji-bon, vol. 1 of 2 vols.; the second, no colophon, n.d. [1802], fukurotoji-bon, 1 vol., incomplete, both block-printed in color, in pale-blue wrappers painted in green and ink with irises, the first with paper label inscribed in ink in Japanese and Roman letters with title and author, sewn--good impressions, slightly faded and toned, slight foxing throughout, slightly soiled along edges on the bottom, some pages marked in pencil, the first, wrapper worn
Contents: first, 10 leaves, numbered 1-10, single-page introduction, 9 double-page illustrations and 1 single-page illustration below poems; the second; 8 leaves, numbered, 6 single-page and 5 double-page illustrations, titled Asakusa nori (Seaweed of Asakusa); Oji inari yashiro (Oji Inari Shrine); Oji Ebiya (Ebiya restaurant at Oji); Surugacho Echigo-ya (Echigoya at Suruga-cho); Jukken mise hina ichi (Ten-stall hina doll market); untitled (Dutch house); Motoyui sho (Hair-ribbon maker); Mimeguri jinja (Mimeguri Shrine): untitled (dyer); Imado sato (Imado village); and Ezoshi ten (Bookshop [Tsutaya Juzaburo])
25.7 x 17.5cm.; and 26.6 x 17.5cm. (2)