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KANKAI IBUN (ACCOUNT OF THE TOUR A REFERENCE WORK ON THE AFTER KANO TANYU (1602-1674)
OF OCEANS) WOODBLOCK PRINTS OF SHARAKU Immortals and scholars admiring a waterfall
Otsuki Gentaku (1757-1827), 1807 Sharaku: A Complete Collection, vol. I,
14 complete volumes of the 15-volume Tokyo: Meiji Shobo, 1952, blue cloth portfolio A pair of hanging scrolls, ink and color on
set, text and color illustrations detailing the enclosing a separately printed English volume silk; with Gama Sennin and Chokaro Sennin
account of Japanese sailors shipwrecked on with text by Yoshida Teruji, special article along with scholars and an attendant resting
the coast Siberia and held in Russia, dated by Kondo Ichitaro, and edited by Adachi by pine trees gazing on a cascading waterfall,
1807, with paper covers and title slips Toyohisa, 77 pages and in glassine wrapper; inscribed Tanyusai hitsu and sealed Morinobu
$4,000 - 5,000 a large separately printed sheet to the front 45 3/8 x 19 1/2in (115.3 x 49.5cm)
of the 40 full-size hand-printed woodblock $4,000 - 5,000
3029 reproductions, with notation of the supervisor,
A COMPLETE SET OF EHON BUSHO Adachi Toyohisa of the Adachi Institute of
KUNKO KI Woodcut Prints, various carvers and printers,
Complete set of 12 volumes on the life of as well as the listing of the accompanying
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, published Kyoto, 1801, prints; each of the 40 tipped-in prints with
text and illustrations, blue paper covers with addition notation to the right corner (two with
title slips slight staining [No. 1 & 22])
$1,000 - 1,500 19 1/4 x 14in (48.9 x 35.6cm) overall
$800 - 1,000
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