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[Japanese Botanical Plate Book:] ?Soka Hyakushu? or One-hundred Varieties of Flora or Flowering Plants.
Published by Yamada Unsodo; for Kono Seiko (heir of the author), publisher c. 1901-4;, Tokyo:, 1901
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Edition : First Edition , Contemporary stiched blue wraps; black ink manuscript title on white paper label on cover. , Text in Japanese . Kono or K?no or Yasuda Bairei (?? ??, 1844 ? 1895), the Japanese painter, book illustrator, and art teacher, was born in and lived in Kyoto. He was a member of the Ukiyo-e school and master of kacho-e painting (depictions of birds and flowers) in the Meiji period of Japan.In 1852, he went to study with the Maruyama-school painter, Nakajima Raisho (1796?1871), and following his death, with the Shijo-school master Shiokawa Bunrin (1808?77).[4]Bairei?s work includes wood block prints of flowers, birds, landscapes - with a touch of western realism. Bairei's Album of One Hundred Birds was published in 1881, and the present work on flora in 1901. He opened an art school in 1880 and his students included Takeuchi Seih?, Kawai Gyokud?, and Uemura Sh?en. , Size : octavo (242x165// and 248, Illustrated with four pages of calligraphic text introduction, final leaf bearing two red seal-stamps; 74 hand-coloured woodblock colour prints from the four-volume album work entitled ?Soka Hyakushu? or ?One-hundred Varieties or kinds of [Japanese] Flora or Flowers or Flowering Plants? , Volume : Two of four volumes. , Stamped twice on fourth text manuscript page, References : Fairbrother Strange, E.: ?Japanese Illustration: A History ?? (1897), 105; Misumi, M.: , P. 4 text pages; [74 ill.] Attractive Japanese woodblock colour prints of local flora - hand-coloured; overall, plates and text are clean and crisp and in near fine condition.
