illustrated book;
print;
album
- Museum number
- 1979,0305,0.363.1
- Title
- Object: Kyuhodo gafu 九峰堂画譜 (Kyuhodo's Picture-album)
- Description
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Illustrated book, folding album. 2 vols. 'Shijo' style illustrations. Colour woodblock-printed.
- Production date
- 1856
- Dimensions
-
Height: 30 centimetres
-
Width: 19.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Hillier and Smith 1980
This posthumously issued work of Nikka, prepared and published by his pupil Kyuka, is one of the most handsome of later 'Shijo gafu'.
Literature:
Brown, Louise Norton, 'Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan', London and New York, 1924, p. 95.
Holloway, Owen E, 'Graphic Art of Japan: The Classical School', London, 1957, no. 43.
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. 401-2.
'Catalogue of the de Roos Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books', Sotheby & Co., London, 17 May 1972, no. 262.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1979,0305,0.363.1
- Additional IDs
-
Previous owner/ex-collection number: JH.363 (Hillier no.)
