List 36L - New Acquisitions
| 14. [EHON] Asai Chû, artist. TÔSEI FÛZOKU GOJÛ-BAN UTA-AWASE. [Modern Customs in a Comparison of 50 Pairs of Poems]. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Hanshichi, Meiji 40 [1907] 2 vols., 24.7 x 18.4 cm. 50 pairs of caricatures, with accompanying poems, all in color woodcut. There is worming in volume one, very slight worming in volume two with some modest staining of the cover to volume one. The impressions and colors are very good. This is a copy of the first edition, which preceded the Unsôdô of Kyoto reprint from the original blocks. |
| Asai Chû (1856-1907) was one of the two (with Kuroda Seiki) most important oil painters of late Meiji era Japan. This work is in his "Haiga" literati mode and represents his most important foray into book illustration. Ref: Mitchell, p.534. An increasingly rare book. Complete. #82028 $1,250.00 |
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