Soka Hyakushu: (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers)
by Bairei Kono
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
-
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Complete set of Bairei Kono's Soka Hyakushu or Kusabana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada Unsodo, 1901-1904.
231 color woodcut plates bound in 4 volumes, stored in a custom green-cloth slip-case. The woodblock plates printed with natural vegetable dyes for true-to-life colors.
Vol. 1: 58 plates, Vol. 2: 58 plates
Supplements: Vol. 3: 60 plates, Vol. 4: 55 plates.
Condition: pale-blue paper covers slightly worn and grubby, but interior fresh and vibrant. First page in each volume with a large red illegible stamp (two on text pages, two on flower plates). A few plates with white flowers oxidized.
Bairei Kono (1844-1895) was a Japanese painter, book illustrator and art teacher famous for his botanicals and kacho-e (flower and bird) paintings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo116
- Title
- Soka Hyakushu
- Author
- Bairei Kono
- Illustrator
- Bairei Kono
- Format/Binding
- Japanese four-hole binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Yamada Unsodo
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1901-4
- Size
- Quarto, 24 x 16cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ukiyo-e, botanical, flower, Bairei Kono, Kusabana, Soka Hyakushu
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ukiyo-e;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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