Manuscript On Paper Entitled Santo Bunko Shohen The Santo Library First Installment

by Kunitoshi Utagawa

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

27 double-page & 14 single-page brush & ink detailed drawings. 35 folding leaves. 12mo 185 x 130 mm. , orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. Japan : late Edo or early Meiji . A unique manuscript of underdrawings for ukiyo-e prints by an artist from one of the most prominent lineages active in the genre. While ukiyo-e are most famous in the form of colored prints from the “floating world” of Edo’s pleasure quarters and kabuki

• Binding: Wrappers

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