[Rarebooks] OFFER: HIROSHIGE'S EARLIEST TOKAIDO SERIES OF 1833 compared with Nature through the Camera.

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[HENSHU AKIYOSHI, YOSHITARO].:TOKAIDO /  4, 40, [56] p. of ill., col. 
plates, map, facsim. ; 23 x 31 cm. Tokyo: Tokoen, Taisho 7 [1918]. 
With a FP of seals and then, a color plate of Hiroshige's memorial 
portrait by Kunisada, signed Toyokuni.  It includes all the prints 
from the 1833 series in color. Opposite each of these is a photograph 
[very nicely reproduced in collotype] of the view as seen at the time 
of the book's publication [1918]. The Uki'oye landscape print was an 
invention of Hiroshige and Hokusai.  As the earliest of Hiroshige's 
Tokaido series [a horizontal one] these were very influential images, 
not only in Japan but among Western artists like Van Gogh and the 
Pont Aven school,  influenced by Gauguin.This is one of the most 
sought after early works on Hiroshige, because it shows the angle at 
which Hiroshige took the motif. Often from very low down, or 
sometimes much higher than the cameramen could go.  He manipulated 
what was possible to see at each scene for dramatic effect, often 
exaggerating the perspective. Also, of course, these views could not 
be duplicated later, partly because of the damage caused by the 
earthquakes of 1855, 1893, and1923 and also because of the enormous 
amount of rebuilding, both for the uses of the people before the 
earthquake, and also including new industrial and modern transit 
uses. These views could not be duplicated even later, also, because 
of earthquakes, fires and bombing between the 1930s and 40s in the 
larger cities during WW II.  Bound in cloth, title slip,  ties, 
sheets in traditional Japanese style, folded and printed on one side, 
only. The text for the plates is in Japanese and English. Minor shelf 
ware, including edges and corners.  VG. $875.00

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