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129 KITAO           MASAYOSHI                 (1764-1824)


               Kaihaku raikin zui (Illustrated catalogue

               of birds from overseas)

               Woodblock prints, twelve sheets from the
               illustrated book Kaihaku raikin zui (Illustrated
               catalogue of birds from overseas), published by
               Matsumoto Zenbei, 1790
               Horizontal oban: 9Ω x 14æ in. (24 x 37.5 cm.)
               each approx.                                (12)

               $8,000-10,000


               A complete book with contents page and publishing information
               in the collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (53.453).
               For a similar set of birds and flowers prints in the Rockefeller
               Collection, see the exhibition catalogue Yomigaeru  bi,  hana  to
               tori to: Rokkufera ukiyoe kurekushon ten (Reviving beauty, flowers
               and  birds:  Ukiyo-e  from  the  Rockefeller  Collection)  (Japan:
               Bunyusha, 1990), pp. 18-19.
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