Ashura-cho

by Chuta Ito

$2,500 · Offered by Ursus Books

ITO, Chuta. Ashura-cho. 5 volumes with a total of 500 numbered plates. 4to, 250 x 215 mm., publisher's decorated cloth over boards, each in a chitsu case. Tokyo-shi Kanda-ku: Kokusui Shuppansha, 1920-21.A handsome set of this extremely unusual collection of Japanese caricatures which came out just after the First World War. The artist Ito Chuta was, by profession, an architect, and also a gifted caricaturist. The 500 plates are his

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