Item #88331 Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols. artist Furuya Kōrin 古谷紅麟.
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols
Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols

Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols

1908. Item #88331

Kōgei No Bi 工芸の美, 3 vols

Furuya Kōrin 古谷紅麟, artist

Unsōdō 芸艸堂, publisher

Kyoto: Meiji 41 [1908]

[Design] 3 orihon folding albums, 32 X 22.5 cm, in paper over boards with integral printed title labels. The first printing of this set, as here, is very scarce and quite delightful - the 75 large double page designs in woodblock, employing karazuri 空摺(gauffrage), metallic inks, etc., represent a peak of the printing art as practiced by Unsōdō 芸艸堂 at the time. Furuya Kōrin 古谷紅麟 (1875-1910), the designer, is usually considered an equal to Kamisaka Sekka 神坂雪佳 and Kaigai Tennen 海外天年, though this work and his remarkable SEIKA, are the only large format works by him we have seen. The designs are in an interesting format, often constrained to the shapes of pottery pieces, especially vases. The result is a remarkable demonstration of how two dimensional designs can be adapted to three dimensional shapes, here rendered, of course, in two dimensions once again. The printing is superb, the condition throughout good to very good, though there is occasional slight browning of the paper, as usual. In a later folding clasped chitsu case which preserves the original chitsu printed paper title label.

Price: $5,250.00

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