[Rarebooks] OFFER: SOUTHERN CHINESE STYLE JAPANESE LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS.

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CHIKUTO, NAKABAYASHI: CHIKUTO SANSUI GAFU [Chikuto Gako]: Bunka 9 
[1812]. Illustrated by Nakabayashi Chikuto. Two volumes, complete, 26 
x 18.5 cm. Modern blue covers, modern title slips. Volume 1: TP 
affixed to inner front board, 3 sheets of calligraphy, 19 sheets of 
woodblock illustrations. Volume 2: 1 sheet and 19 sheets of 
illustration. Closing notes and colophon. Illustrations all finished, 
2 page, landscapes in black and white with gray or light color. This 
is not the first edition, which must be sealed on the colophon page, 
and which has the sheets numbered. It is, however an early edition, 
pre Meiji.  Chikuto was a very famous Nanga landscape painter and 
theorist[Nanga=Southern Chinese style]. He held that Suiboku [black 
and white with gray washes] was the soul of painting. These 
landscapes, in suiboku are close indeed, to his doctrine. Chikuto 
Gako was the name given to the first issue. This later edition has 
the name Landscape paintings by Chikuto [Chikuto Sansui Gafu] The 
title is noted in Mitchell. Original publishers: Fujii Magobei 
[Kyoto], Yanagihara Kihei[Osaka]; Katano Toshiro [Nagoya]. Mitchell 
P. 237, 8, Brown, P. 107. U of Ill., Copies located: Mitchell, 
[NYPL]; BM [1904] 16110.e.9; Ryerson 421 [as Chikuto Sansui 
Gako];  UCLA, [Chikuto Gako]; The plates well printed and in 
immaculate condition. VG copy without  either stains or insect damage. $850.00

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