Illustrated handscroll on paper, entitled in manuscript on outside “Shōjiku ? no mo. Yamana nushi” 奨竺之模. 山名主 “Copy of Shōjiku. Head of the Yamana Clan”

Name: Illustrated handscroll on paper, entitled in manuscript on outside “Shōjiku ? no mo. Yamana nushi” 奨竺之模. 山名 主 “Copy of Shōjiku. Head of the Yamana Clan”
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Author: Court Attire

by Court Attire

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Ca. 122 fine brush & wash illus. in many delicate colors, including gold pigment. Scroll on thin paper 272 x 1980 mm. , wooden core roller. Japan : at end of scroll in trans.: “Early Winter 1859 copied by Yamana Maeda Tsuranari 山名前田貫業.” A beautiful manuscript, depicting ca. 122 images of court attire, mainly for males but with some costumes for women, copied by the artist and historian of court attire Yamana b. 1838 . Towards the

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Illustrated handscroll on paper, entitled in manuscript on outside “Shōjiku ? no mo. Yamana nushi” 奨竺之模. 山名 主 “Copy of Shōjiku. Head of the Yamana Clan”

Illustrated handscroll on paper, entitled in manuscript on outside “Shōjiku ? no mo. Yamana nushi” 奨竺之模. 山名主 “Copy of Shōjiku. Head of the Yamana Clan”