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| Artist: | Katsushika Hokusai (1759-1849) | ||
| Title: | Ehon Wakan no Homare (Illustrated book of glories of Japan and China. One volume, complete. | ||
| Date: | Kaei 3 (1850) | ||
| Publisher: | Toshoken, Kamiya Tokuhachi, Edo (Tokyo). | ||
| Blockcutter: | Egawa Sentaro | ||
| Size: | 22,5x16 cm. | ||
| Reference: | Kenji Toda. Descriptive
catalogue of the Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago 1931, pag.263. Jack Hillier. The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration. London 1980, p.231-2. |
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| Remarks: | According Jack Hillier the last illustration is signed by Hokusai at the age of seventy-six, but no other copies are known with a colophon dated before 1850. The book is one of the "Warriors trilogy" with the Ehon Sakigake and Ehon Musashi Abumi. Apparently it was designed first but it was published one year after Hokusai's death. | ||
| Conditions: | Original cover and title slip. Fine impression. Paper slightly toned, one red spot on one page, in very good conditions. Twenty-eight double page and two single page illustrations in b/w. | ||
| Item no. | M 215 | ||
| Price: | (Sold) | ||
