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Lot 109
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[JAPANESE BOOKS]. CHITOSĒN Fujihiko (千歳園 藤彦, possibly Senzaien Fujihiko, active 19th c.) -- WATANABE Taigaku (渡辺 対岳, active 19th century), illustrator. 厳島絵馬鑒 Itsukushima Ema Kagami [The Ex-votos of Itskushima Shrine]. [Hiroshima]: 1833 (Tenpō 3).
1 volume (of 5), 4to (185 x 255 mm). 38 leaves with 7 double-page woodcuts, 2 single-page woodcuts, and a multitude of decorative borders. (Dampstaining to a few leaves.) Contemporary brown diamond-patterned paper with paper title label, stab-sewn (stain to upper cover, some minor rubbing and creasing).
Woodcuts of devotional gift-giving, including a fine illustration of a falcon, and a double-page woodcut of Itsukushima Shrine with its distinctive "floating" torii gate.