Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)
Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)

Chigusa (A thousand grasses)

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Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)
Chigusa (A thousand grasses)
Album in three volumes, gold and silver pigments, gauffrage, in gray and green-gray paper wrappers decorated with silver sparrows: vol. 1, 30 plates, dated 1899.2.20; vol. 2, 12 plates, dated 1901.9.20; vol. 3 (misnumbered as vol. 1), 12 plates, dated 1905.2.1; all plates sealed Sekka, each volume published by Unsodo (Yamada Shinsaburo)--very good impressions, soiled, stained, some toned, creases, covers worn
24 x 35.5cm., each approx.

拍品專文

Chigusa was originally published serially, three prints at a time, on the 25th of each month from February 1899 to June 1900 the sheets were later compiled in to book form between 1900 and 1905.