Collection of Auction Catalogs on Japanese Art Volume 16 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... his horse laden with bundles of the iris, his small boy seated on top. In soft tones with strong vermilion accents. Signed, Sakino Sori Hokusai Gasu. Illustrated HOKUSAI--Continued 260. SURIMONO i i" Wide print picturing idle beauties and their attendants admiring, from a balcony, the rising full moon across a partly frozen river. Signed, Sori Aratame Hokusai Gasu. KLXIKAZU 261. WIDE PRINT 7y" Winter scene, with snow lying deep and still flying, figures in the foreground on the bank of the Sumida river near Mimeguri temple, and across the water Matsuchiyama hill and shrine. Very interesting specimen. HIROSHIGE Flowers And Birds Series 262. NIGHTINGALE H 5 Half the orb of the full moon seen across the projecting 'branch of a pine tree, and at the edge of the moon a nightingale in flight, calling. 264. PAROQUET-In faint rose, blue and green, on the stem of a grape r' vine in bearing. Illustrated 265. FIVE SWALLOWS g g t Playfully fly'ng through the air, over the out-reaching flr branches of a tree or bush. Illustrated 266. THE HOJIRO, OR BLUE BIRD I Perched on a stout branch of a peach tree in blossom. HIROSHIGE--Continued Flowers And Birds Series--Continued 267. BIRD AND VINE 2 J-p.B.C-On the drooping stem of a wistaria vine a yellow bird perches, looking downward. 268. THREE SPARROWS ON THE WING Hovering about two red poppies bending on their tall / and garceful stems 21 269. STALKS AND LEAVES OF THE BAMBOO Most artistically drawn in red and black, and a swallow flying toward them. 270. CAMELLIAS IN BLOSSOM Qj With a buncho bird sitting on one of the stems, singing. HIROSHIGE Toto Meisho, Or "famous Views In The Eastern' Capital" (Yeddo) 271. GOHYAKU RAKAN M t Sazane-do, temple of Gohyaku Rakan, and before it a...