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Fine Japanese Prints and Works of Art

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Artists: Watanabe Shotei (Seitei) (1851-1918) and others
Title: Bijutsu Sekai. no.1. (The World of Art) no.1.
Date: Meiji 23 (1890)
Publisher:  Wada Tokutaro
Printer:  Yoshida Ichimatsu.
Blockcutter:  Goto Tokujiro.
Remarks: The first and probably the best issue of this early art magazine edited and illustrated by Watanabe Shotei with the contributions of Yoshitoshi Kyosai and other ten artists. Illustrated with 12 double page illustrations and 4 on single page, including a fine illustration by Yoshitoshi of a bijin with a cat and one by Chikanobu of the same subject.
Reference: Charlotte van Rappard-Boon. Catalogue of the Collection of Japanese Prints Part V The Age of Yoshitoshi. Rijksprentenkabinet.Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam 1990, p. 89.
Conditions: Original cover. Very good impression and colour, general good conditions.
Item no. M 249
Price: Euro 350




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