Tokaido, [Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido, Contrasted with Present-Day Photographs] Hiroshige Nikuhitsu Goju santsugi Zu

Hiroshige; Jungo Murayama; Jippensha Ikku

Verlag: Kokkasha, Tokyo, 1918

Beschreibung

Color Plates; B&W Photos; Map; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 250 pages; 1918 Kokkasha, Tokyo. Oversize oblong format HC in original blue cloth covered boards, with decorative title design to cover in green, white and gilt. Stab and ribbon binding through brass grommet lined perforations. Full large format reproductions of Hiroshige's 53 color Tokaido woodcuts with facing page 1910-1918 b&w photographs of the "modern" settings of the views rendered in the artist's woodcuts. Text almost entirely in Japanese; brief captions for each of the 53 facing page illustrations rendered in English. Pictorial endpages; color half-title and title pages are tissue guarded. A several page Japanese language table of locations at front along with a color map of the Tokaido route. Light damp line and evidence top 1/3 of the rear board, with superficial damp evidence to rear endpages but no significant damp evidence to printed leaves. Shallow damp line to the front edge of the tissue guards at front. Mild accordion stress creases to tissue guards; light shelf rubbing to cloth at corners. Remarkable book project contrasting the views from early 19th century Japan to the beginning of the industrial period, might well be complimented by a companion volume using views from the present day. Appended at rear is a printed reproduction of Jippensha Ikku's comic picaresque novel of travel along the Tokaido, Hizakurige (Shank's Mare) written in 1802. Overall near VG. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 49463

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Tokaido, [Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stages of ...

Verlag: Kokkasha, Tokyo

Erscheinungsdatum: 1918

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good-