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Kitano Tsunetomi (1880–1947) Koboyakawa Kiyoshi (1896–1948)
Dai ôban. Series: Dai Chikamatsu zenshû – Furoku moku- Ôban tate-e. 25.9 x 40.5 cm. Title: Kamiyui. Young woman
han. The heroine Umekawa in the play Meido no hikyaku by dressing her hair. Signed: Kiyoshi. Seal: Kobayakawa. 1931.
Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Seal: Tsunetomi. Publisher: Seikadô. Very good impression and colours, blind printing, mica, fine
Block cutter: Yamagishi Kazue. Printer: Nishimura Kumakichi. condition
Date: 1923.
€ 1.400 – 1.600
On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Chikamatsu Monzae-
mon, the series of theatre works were published in 15 volumes
from 1922 to 1925. A supplement was simultaneously pub-
lished with 16 woodcut prints by various artists illustrating
scenes from famous plays. Good impression and colours, mica,
minor damage to edges, one stain, lower edge browned, one
wormhole to lower edge
Literatur
Compare: The New Wave, Leiden, 1993, ill. 138; The Female
Image, Tokyo/Leiden, 2000, pl. 106

€ 800 – 1.000

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