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HISHIKAWA MORONOBU (1630-1694), illustrator: Bijin Ezukushi "Beautiful Women", colophon dated Tenna 3 (1683) Fifth month and signed Yamatoe-shi Hishikawa Kichibei hitsu, published by Urokogataya, fukurotoji-bon (27 x 18.5 cm.), 2 vols., block printed in sumi, dark blue wrapper printed with reeds and maple leaf on the water, title slip Shimpan Bijin Ezukushi in black on buff paper, sewn, in chitsu, good impression, slight damage to edges, slightly rubbed, some ink stain and worming, some restorations

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HISHIKAWA MORONOBU (1630-1694), illustrator: Bijin Ezukushi "Beautiful Women", colophon dated Tenna 3 (1683) Fifth month and signed Yamatoe-shi Hishikawa Kichibei hitsu, published by Urokogataya, fukurotoji-bon (27 x 18.5 cm.), 2 vols., block printed in sumi, dark blue wrapper printed with reeds and maple leaf on the water, title slip Shimpan Bijin Ezukushi in black on buff paper, sewn, in chitsu, good impression, slight damage to edges, slightly rubbed, some ink stain and worming, some restorations


Contents: Vol. 1, 13 leaves, numbered 1-13, 1 p. preface, 13 double-page illustration beneath texts; Vol. 2, 26 leaves, numbered 15-40, 26 double-page illustration beneath texts, colophon signed and dated as above, publishers signature Urokogata-ya
seals: Obama Bunko (Obama Ritoku)
two other unidentified seals
Literature
Matsudaira Susumu Nihon shoshigaku taikei Vol. 57 Hishikawa Moronobu ehon shoshi (Seishodo 1988)

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Other copies of this book are held in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The New York Public Library; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute, Chicago; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Tenri Library, Nara, Japan