Orihon accordion album, entitled on manuscript label on upper cover “Masukagami” “24 Influential Women, Gathered”

by Masukagami 万寿喜賀美

$14,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

24 beautiful & richly colored paintings each 210 x 271 mm. , each mounted on highly decorated boards. Oblong 4to 254 x 315 mm. , orig. silk brocade somewhat worn over covers, richly decorated endpapers with landscapes, mists, & clouds of gold kindei or patterns of cut gold. Japan : mid-Edo. A magnificent album of paintings of 24 Japanese women, glorious or tragic, in mythology, literature, and history. Their highly cultured lives represent

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