[Rarebooks] OFFER RARE, TRANSITIONALJAPANESE EHON IN BOTH ENGLISH AND JAPANESE.

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TEICHI, MIKI, author; GEKKO, OGATA and EITAKU, KOBAYASHI illustrators: 
PICTORIAL DESCRIPTION OF FAMOUS PLACES OF JAPAN, Vol.1, English translation 
by G. Takahashi. Kyushundo, Tokyo, Japan, 20th Year Of Meiji Period (1888), 
25 x 17.6 cm (9.84 x 6.93 in.) The book is unpaginated, but complete with 
the entire English and Japanese texts. No other volume has been discovered, 
therefore this volume one stands alone. There are 10, double page colored 
woodblock printds of famous places in Japan. Each plate is accompanied by a 
Japanese and an English text. The plates show the following views.
Plate I: A view of Edo Castle, Tokyo by Gekko
Plate II: The Island Of Itsuku by Eitaku
Plate III: The Island Of E by Gekko
Plate IV: Mount Tsukuba by Eitaku
Plate V: The Kamo River, Kyoto by Gekko
Plate VI: The Golden Temple, Kyoto by Gekko
Plate VII: The Cataract Of Kegon, Nikko by Eitaku
Plate VIII: Yokohama by Gekko
Plate IX: Mount Yoshino by Gekko
Plate X: The Asakusa Temple by Gekko
The artist Ogata Gekko was a Tokyo based Shijo school painter who also made 
designs for pottery and lacquer ware. The Shijo school painters painted 
with w free brush in the Japanese style, but from nature and in color. His 
separately issued prints, often tryptichs of Bijin[beautiful women] in a 
landscape are now being avidly collected. Eitaku was Tokyo, Kano school 
painter. He studied with Kano Eitoku Tatsunobu from his childhood, on. 
Eitaku edited several textbooks on painting and made illustrations for 
newspapers. He specialised in historical subjects, figures and bird and 
flower painting, howevr his illustrations here are all of landscape. The 
binding  remains a Japanese style one. In this all the sheets are folded so 
that only one side of each page is printed, and the binding consists of 
thread ties through the covers and text. This is an unusual transitional 
Japanese/English Ehon [picture book]. A small number of these were issued 
just before Hasegawa began to issue colorplate books in English, French, 
and German for foreign tourists and for export to their home countries in 
the early 1880s. Hasegawa did use Gekko and other artists of his quality, 
too. Our book is quite rare. There are no copies in OCLC or COPAC. There is 
no copy in the BL, Ryerson, or the NYP. The original wraps are Light green 
with a title label in English on the English front wrap, and in Japanese on 
the Japanese front wrap at the other end of the book.. The wrappers show 
some wear, but the contents are in near Fine condition. $3000.00


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