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Soka Hyakushu

Soka Hyakushu

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Soka Hyakushu: (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers)

by Bairei Kono

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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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Bookseller
Florilegius JP (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;
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May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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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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