OGINO ISSUI (ca. 1900-1910). Zuan hyakutai. (Sold)

OGINO ISSUI (ca. 1900-1910). Zuan hyakutai. (Sold)

Artist: Ogino Issui (active early 20th century)
Title: Zuan hyakutai. Three volumes, complete.
Date: Meiji 43 (1910).
Publisher: Unsodo, Kyoto.
Size: Orihon albums, 27,4 x 19 cm
Medium: Woodblock color printing.
Remarks: One of the finest books of the zuan-cho genre with about 100 designs in neo-Rimpa style and Art Nouveau on 78 plates. Ogino Issui was a pupil of Furuya Korin, in turn pupil of Sekka. Issui illustrated at least seven books with the publishers Honda Unkindo and Unsodo.
Conditions: Very good condition, with a later blue cloth case.
Item no: M 405
Status: Sold