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Two of fifty illustrations of fans.

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One large folded illustration.

 

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Various Artists

Title: Meika hyakusen gafu (Pictute Book of One Hundred Fan Paintings by Celebrated Masters). Series one of two. Two volumes.
Date: Meiji 28 (1895)
Publisher: Yamada Unsodo, Kyoto.
Size: 17x26 cm.
Reference: Charles H. Mitchell. The Illustrated Books of the Nanga, Maruyama, Shijo and Other Related Schools of Japan. Los Angeles1972, p.409-410. Mitchell lists all subjects and the artists' names of all painted fans. According the book's preface the original fans have been exhibited at the Osaka Museum in 1895.
Conditions: Very good impression, colour and conditions. forty-nine single page illustrations and one large, folded illustration, 26x58 cm, of a fan sealed Sansetsu showing a mouse biting a cat.
Item no. M 33
Price: €uro 750


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