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Artist: |
Nagayama Koin (1765-1849) |
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| Title: | Nampo Jo (The Album of Nampo), one volume, complete. | ||
| Date: | 1824. | ||
| Size: | 25,5x18,4 cm. | ||
| Remarks: | This is a memorial book for Shokusanjin (Ota Nampo), the famous kyoka writer and literary figure of Edo who died in 1823. According Roger Keyes in his article Tani Seiko and his circle, in Andon 72-73, the book was originally produced at his own expensive by the print-maker based in Osaka Tani Seiko with title Seiko jo. The calligraphy pages of Chinese and Japanese poetry are by Ota Nampo's own hand. The delicate pictorial part is by Koin with two single page and five double page colour illustrations. | ||
| Reference: | Kokusho so mokuroku,
Tokyo 1976, vol. 6, n.311. Roger S. Keyes, Tani Seiko and his circle, in Andon 72-73, Leiden 2002, p.17. Roger S. Keyes, Ehon The Artist and the Book in Japan, New York 2006, no.49. |
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| Conditions: | Original cover, original title slip damaged. Very good impression, some repaired wormholes otherwise in very good conditions. Missing the colophon inside back cover. | ||
| Item no. | M 30 | ||
| Price: | Euro 900 | ||
