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Artist: Ogino Issui (active ca. 1910-19109
Title: Zuan hyakutai (One Hundred Decorative Designs). Three volumes, complete.
Date: Colophon dated Meiji 13 (1910).
Size: Orihon albums, 27,4 x 19 cm
Publisher: Unsodo, Kyoto.
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
Price: Euro 3200

 

 

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