Gold-colored paper label on upper cover with inscription: “Isen torai zu” 異船渡来図 “Arrival of Foreign Ships Illustrated”

by Black Ship Orihon

$65,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

36 detailed hand-drawn scenes throughout, employing many ink washes in various colors. 45 folding leaves, i.e., 90 pp. Large orihon accordion format: 277 x 199 mm. , blue silk covers over boards a little rubbed , endpapers decorated with sprinkled golden leaf. Japan: “1855.” A most remarkable orihon, containing the earliest impressions of Americans and Russians, recorded by a Japanese artist in 1855. This work was created immediately in

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