Fuzoku Emakimono: (Picture Scroll of the Water Trade)
by Masanobu Okumura
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Reprint from the 1880s of ukiyo-e artist Masanobu Okumura's depiction of nightlife in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters in the Edo era.
Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, illustrator and painter.
This orihon concertina-style book includes 38 double-page illustrations of geisha with their maids and samurai customers, playing board games and cards, smoking tobacco pipes, playing shamisen, reading books, etc. One plate shows the artist Okumura painting a large screen.
38 woodblock prints printed in three colors on 76 pages bound in orihon concertina-style with decorative washi paper over boards.
Condition: binding repaired with washi paper, interior bright and fresh with no spotting.
Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, illustrator and painter.
This orihon concertina-style book includes 38 double-page illustrations of geisha with their maids and samurai customers, playing board games and cards, smoking tobacco pipes, playing shamisen, reading books, etc. One plate shows the artist Okumura painting a large screen.
38 woodblock prints printed in three colors on 76 pages bound in orihon concertina-style with decorative washi paper over boards.
Condition: binding repaired with washi paper, interior bright and fresh with no spotting.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo109
- Title
- Fuzoku Emakimono
- Author
- Masanobu Okumura
- Illustrator
- Masanobu Okumura
- Format/Binding
- Orihon (concertina book) bound in washi paper
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1880s
- Size
- Quarto, 25 x 17.5cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ukiyo-e, Masanobu Okumura, Fuzoku Emakimono, geisha, water trade, woodcut, Japanese, illustration, woodblock
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ukiyo-e;
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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