Kasen e sho [trans.: Pictures of Some of the Immortal Poets]
by KITA, Busei (Artist) & YAMAMOTO, Seikei (Author)
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36 finely color-printed woodcut illus. in the text. 23 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. gold-flecked wrappers (rubbed), orig. printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. N.p.: Preface dated "1810."<p> First edition of this finely illustrated work by Kita Busei (1776-1856), a student of Tani Buncho. It is the first masterpiece by Kita; Hillier, describes the present book as "an attractive colour-printed book of poets" (The Art of the Japanese Book, p. 640). The images of the 36 poets, each of which occupies two-thirds of a page, are finely printed in color using a series of woodblocks. The backgrounds are delicately tinted and the images of each poet are richly color-printed, employing different colors in a series of printing runs. <P>Outer margins with a small dampstain just touching the images, but a fine copy. <p>⧠Brown, Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan, p. 119.
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- Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (US)
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- Kasen e sho [trans.: Pictures of Some of the Immortal Poets]
- Author
- KITA, Busei (Artist) & YAMAMOTO, Seikei (Author)
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- Used
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