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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849), illustrator: Ehon kyoka yama mata yama "Picture book with kyoka, Mountains upon mountains"; no colophon, n.d., illustration leaf 16, vol 2 dated Kyowa 3 (1803); fukurotoji-bon, 3 vols. (25 x 17.5 cm.), block printed, in yellow paper wrapppers patterned with blue cross-hatches, title slips in black on buff paper, titled as above, sewn, in chitsu; good impression, very good color, finger soil and some small restorations
Contents: vol. 1, 12 leaves, some numbered (2,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12), 3 pp. preface signed Benbenkan Meirifu(?), 10 double page and 1 single page illustration; vol. 2, 10 leaves, some numbered (15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22), 2 single page and 9 double page illustrations, illustration 16th leaf dated Kyowa 3 (1803); vol. 3, 10 leaves, some numbered (23,24,26,27,28,29,30,31) and two pp. postscript signed Ohara Sumikata, 9 double page and 1 single page illustration
Contents: vol. 1, 12 leaves, some numbered (2,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12), 3 pp. preface signed Benbenkan Meirifu(?), 10 double page and 1 single page illustration; vol. 2, 10 leaves, some numbered (15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22), 2 single page and 9 double page illustrations, illustration 16th leaf dated Kyowa 3 (1803); vol. 3, 10 leaves, some numbered (23,24,26,27,28,29,30,31) and two pp. postscript signed Ohara Sumikata, 9 double page and 1 single page illustration