YOSHITOSHI, Tsukioka; KYOCHIKA, Kobayashi; TOSHIKATA, Mizuno; and others.

Kyodo risshi no motoi [Instruction in the Fundamentals of Success].

Stock Code 91251

Matsuki Heikichi Meiji 35 [1902].

£6,500.00 - £6,500.00

£6,500.00

£6,500.00 - £6,500.00

£6,500.00

This beautiful album contains prints by various Meiji artists including two by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), 12 by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) and 13 by Mizuno Toshikata (1886-1908), depicting famous individuals throughout Japanese history, including Sano Tsuneyo (Kamakura period [1185-1333]) making a fire with pine branches, Minamoto Yoshitsune's mistress, Shizuka Gozen (1165-1211), the sumo wrestler Tanikaze Kajinosuke (1750-1795) and the legendary samurai Takasugi Shinsaku (1839-1867).

An album of 36 Japanese coloured woodblock prints, oban tate-e (35.5 x 24 cm.) some signed and dated, bound in concertina style with contemporary decorative silk boards; an excellent copy.

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Provenance: an Austrian private collection.

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