Kawanabe, Gyosai.

Gyosai Gadan.

4 vols. (each volume approx. 70 pp.) autobiography and copybook by one of the foremost practitioners of the traditional arts in mid-Meiji Japan, including text (in Japanese, with some English) accompanied by woodblock print illustrations (some in subtle colors) showing a broad array of images, ranging from densely composed to simple and reductive. Sm. 4to. Orig. printed wrpps., each volume string-bound in the Japanese style, all housed in boards case with a colorful woodblock print mounted on front cover. Tokyo (Iwamoto Shun) 1887.

• USD 2,500.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: 42122

• bookseller: F.A. Bernett Inc. (USA)