an album of kabuki prints
96 oban prints to form 27 triptychs, 50 diptychs and 19 single plates, including numerous warrior and geisha figures, giant spiders and spirits, colour woodblock prints, each c.365 x 245mm., the colours bright, pasted back to back, some edges and corners creased or slightly worn, stitched into patterned limp covers, various date and censor seals,with 3 portraits of beautiful women by Yeizan, and a scene of figures before a bridge by another hand, loosely inserted in the album, 1849-53.
an album of kabuki prints
96 oban prints to form 27 triptychs, 50 diptychs and 19 single plates, including numerous warrior and geisha figures, giant spiders and spirits, colour woodblock prints, each c.365 x 245mm., the colours bright, pasted back to back, some edges and corners creased or slightly worn, stitched into patterned limp covers, various date and censor seals,with 3 portraits of beautiful women by Yeizan, and a scene of figures before a bridge by another hand, loosely inserted in the album, 1849-53.
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