Hikanoko

by Gyokudo Kimura

$1,500 · Offered by Ursus Books

KIMURA , Gyokusen. Hikanoko . Illustrated with 31 mounted colour woodblock prints, on double leaves folded accordion style (orihon). Folio, 435 x 320 mm., bound in publisher's silk over boards in a new chitsu case. Kyoto: Happodo, 1935. A magnificent volume of colour woodblock prints featuring elaborate maiko hair ornaments, called kanzashi . A......

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