- Museum number
- 1979,0305,0.127.6
- Title
- Object: Kokon gaso, kohen 古今画薮, 後編 (Thicket of Ancient and Modern Pictures, Sequel)
- Description
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Illustrated book. Vol. 6 of eight volumes. Various subjects including art, paintings and designs. Partly colour, woodblock-printed.
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- Production date
- 1769-1771
- Dimensions
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Height: 26.70 centimetres
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Width: 17 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Hillier and Smith 1980
No two sets of this multi-volumed work coincide, and it is accepted as an unsolvable bibliographical problem. The contents of these volumes vary from the driest ink outline after academic Chinese woodblock versions of classic paintings to the most starkly graphic designs in which several colours are merged into each other on one block.
Literature:
Hillier, J, 'Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection', part 1, London, 1974, no. 167.
Mitchell, C H, with the assistance of Ueda, Osamu, 'The Illustrated Books of the Nanga, Maruyama, Shijo and Other Related Schools of Japan. A Biobibliography', Los Angeles, 1972, pp. 373-4.
'Catalogue of the de Roos Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books', Sotheby & Co., London, 17 May 1972, no. 88.
Toda, Kenji, 'Descriptive Catalogue of the Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago', Chicago, 1931, p. 415.
Waterhouse, D B, 'Harunobu and his age', London, 1964, no. 138.
This set, from the first Vever sale (ex Odin), is fully described in the Sotheby catalogue, 26 March 1974, no. 167.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.127.6
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.127 (Hillier no.)
