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KOCHO UEDA: KO-CHO-RYAKUGA II Vols., complete. Bunkyu 3 (1863) Preface 
dated Bunkyu 1. Signed Kohatsu sealed Hashimoto Tsu and Dairo. The color 
woodblock print illustrations are 40 pages in two volumes. At the beginning 
of Volume II there is a double page of calligraphy signed and sealed 
Gosaku. Signed at the end of Volume II Kocho, dated Bunkyu 3[1863].
Publishers Yamishiroya Sahei, Edo; Itamiya Zembei and Kawachiya Kihei, 
Osaka.  IWANAMI; KSM: 984714, Odin 194; Duret 532, Happer, (1) 696, Isaac 
483, Ryerson(Toda) 381. Reproduced in Odin Pl. VIII, Ref. Brown P. 594. Cf. 
Suiun Ryakugya(1850). Mitchell P. 370. Original covers and title slips. 
Title pages in both volumes. Light age fading at edges of covers of both 
volumes, original maroon flexible clothlike paper. Fine printing and state. 
The draawings in this album are all haiga, or swift drawings meant to 
accomany Haiku. They are painted in the finest Shijo style, in direct 
descent from those of Goshun, as seen in Goshun's travel diary of Buson. 
Although Mitchell states that he was probably a student of Koin, "some 
sources state that he was a pupil of  Goshun,[ founder of the Shijo 
school,] and Nakai Ranko". The first is broadly hinted at by the character 
and quality of these drawings.A famous later Shijo book in first edition, 
by a famous master. Rare in Western collections.  Including Mitchell there 
are 6. Beres did not have one, and none have been at auction for some 75 
years. See Mitchell P.102-103. See P. 580 for a plate after Kocho in a 
famous anthology. Original covers and title slips. Title pages in both 
volumes. Light age fading at edges of covers of both volumes, original 
maroon flexible clothlike paper. Fine printing and state.   $3500.00

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