Nakagawa Shundai ä å 駿å°, editor & Ishizaki Yuushi ç å èæ, et al, artist
Nakagawa Shundai ä å 駿å°, editor & Ishizaki Yuushi ç å èæ, et al, artist. SHINZOKU KIBUN æ ä¿ç è Touto [Edo] Gangetsudou. Kansei 11 [1799] 6 volumes, oohon. 27.0 x 18.7 cm. In chitsu, well printed and clean, complete. A very interesting late 18th century guide for the literate Japanese public of daily life in China under the Ch'ing Dynasty. Heavily illustrated throughout. Very clean, good printing, very good overall with just a hint of worming in the occasional margin.
Jippensha Ikku åè¿"èä ä , here as é"æå Suisaishi. author
Jippensha Ikku åè¿"èä ä , here as é"æå Suisaishi. author. Zatto Ichiran Zenpenãè¥åä 覧å ç . Kyouto, Yoshinoya Nihei, Zodiacal date on the title page of 1819. 2 volumes 21.9 x 14.3cm in gray-green wrappers string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji with original printed title slips. Jippensha Ikku (1765-1831), comic author and "man of mode," was an important member of the gesaku literary movement of the 19th C., his most famous work being the Tokaidochu Hizakurige (known as the Shank's Mare). Though titled a "zenpen", volume one, it appears to be complete in two volumes, as here. Ikku has created a little sharehon for the playboy set. The title illustrates the work's sly humor, and roughly translates as "This and That," or even "A Perspective on Stuff, volume one." In this work, he has combined his light humorous touch with his own illustrations as well. His naive and silly pictures compliment the contents of this clever work admirably. Wear and damage to covers and title slips but the artwork in this ephemeral book is in overall good condition. Few copies found in the Union Catalogue.
Tachibana Shozan æ å°å±±, artist and Sessuiken/Chasei éªæ° è»'ï¼è é, ed
Tachibana Shozan æ å°å±±, artist and Sessuiken/Chasei éªæ° è»'ï¼è é, ed. HAIKAI SHOKUGYO ZUKUSHI ä¿ è«§è æ¥å°½ 2 vols. Edo, Tempo 13 [1842] Two volumes 23.4 x 16.6cm string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji in original wrappers with printed paper title slips and housed in a modern clasped chitsu. Unusual and interesting haikai collection, with wonderful Edo Shijo-style illustrations, 30 double-page and 11 single page. The author is Inoue Seishichi, writing under his pen name, Sessuiken. Original woodblock prints, carefully printed in light colors, with Japanese text throughout. Portrayed are the "shokugyo zukushi" or "guide to the professions" of the title, such as fisherman, hunter, cliff moss gatherer and blade sharpener, accompanied by poems. The professions are divided by seasons, with Spring and Summer in Vol 1 and Fall and Winter in Vol 2. The printed title slip of Vol 2 missing and there is slight worming throughout, mainly confined to lower margins. Wear to and spots of soiling to wrappers. Overall good condition with excellent impressions and a wonderful demonstration of the variety of color shades possible using nothing but sumi ink. (Please see Mitchell pp. 282-3.). Quite a wonderful book to relax with for an evening in old Japan.
[SINO-JAPANESE PAINTING MANUAL]
ZUE [TOKAI] åæå®å½ SOU-I, 7 vols in one. Edo, Suharaya Shimbei, Kyouho 20 [1735]. Oohon, 27.0 x 17.5 cm. Originally published as a series of artists's guides in a set in China in 1607, it was redone in Japan in 1702, then reprinted, as here, in 1735. Like the HASSHU GAFU å«ç ®ç"»è it had a large influence in Japan, particularly on Nanga style artists. Everything human, animal and vegetable is rendered in beautiful sumi-e woodblock prints. There are extracts from classic Chinese texts on painting technique, going back centuries. A vade mecum for the Edo artist interested in the techniques and theory of Chinese painting. The seven volumes of the original are here rebound into a single volume with the original worn cover and title label. This gappon volume is complete and has been cleaned internally to neutralize staining. There are some pages that remain stained but the book is still a remarkable work which is quite scarce. Most copies referenced online are incomplete or microfilmed. See Mitchell 566 for his information on the original Chinese edition. It should be noted that the copy he saw of the Genroku 1702 edition was incomplete. Not a common set. Mitchell misreads ZUE as ZUKAI in the title.
[EHON] Mikuma Katen, artist
[EHON] Mikuma Katen, artist. KINSEI KIJIN-DEN, 5 vols. Kyoto, Hishiya Magobei, et al. Kansei 2 [1790]. String-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji, in textured blue-grey covers with printed paper title labels. 37 single page and 2 double page b+w woodcuts, largely depicting the subject matter of the title: TALES OF ECCENTRICS FROM RECENT YEARS. Originally printed, as here, in 1790, this is a deservedly famous and oft-reprinted work in Japan. This is probably a relatively early reprint. It has Wonderful thin paper. The KIJIN_DEN catalogues the eccentricities and eccentrics of the late 18th Century - a time of florescence of the "bunjin" literati ideal in Japan. The bunjin created an esthetically pure environment in the midst of the bustle (and corruption) of everyday life. The initial exemplars were those scholars and artists who withdrew from public life in China after the fall of the Ming Dynasty to the alien Manchus in the mid-17th Century. The KIJIN-DEN represents one of the efforts by the Japanese to domesticate a Chinese cultural import and find native representatives of the literati ideal. It should be noted that this guide came out just as the Kansei Reforms, with a decidedly Confucian, if not authoritarian, bent, had just been promulgated. The "kijin" or literatus might well chafe under such a "reform" agenda. This book even well be seen as a bit of cultural protest on behalf of the individual ideal. The KIJIN-DEN is interesting for its exploration of the art world in Japan- for example, there is a domestic scene of the painters Ikeno Taiga and wife Gyokuran, among others. (Unfortunately, it is the only torn woodcut with part of the image missing) Indeed, there are many women depicted in the KIJIN-DEN. (See JAPANESE WOMEN ARTISTS 1600-1900) Also see Ryerson 416, Mitchell 364, Hillier/Ravicz 22. The condition is good over all, the printings are fair to good. There was a second series done some few years later, but this first series is complete as issued in 5 volumes.
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