Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]. Baichiku Rangiku æ¢-竹èè [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]
Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]. Baichiku Rangiku -竹蘭菊 [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum] Kyoto 1710 A single volume 28. 1 x 19. 4cm string-bound, Japanese style fukuro-toji with the original dark blue-green wrappers and the original printed paper title label. [52] cho of preliminary text followed by original, black and white woodblock prints of the 4 types of botanicals in the title, with Japanese text within the woodcuts. Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum] is one volume of an 8 volume set entitled Hasshu Gafu -種画oe, originally published in Ming-era China. The Ming edition is unobtainable and the first Japanese edition of 1672 virtually so. This is almost certainly one of the volumes of the 1710 Kyoto edition, printed by Nakagawa Mohei. "Hasshu Gafu" literally translates as "A Collection of Eight Illustrated Sketchbooks." The books in the collection had no intrinsic connection with each other, save that they were heavily illustrated in woodcut. Some, like this one, are done on a botanical theme, others are illustrated poetry collections. In any event, the Hasshu Gafu had a great deal of influence on the Chinese style painters of the early Edo period once it was published there, an influence that only started to fade upon the import from China of the color printed "Mustard Seed Garden" and Ten Bamboo Hall." Wear to wrappers with rips and chipping at spine and edges. Wear and rip to title slip. Bottom section of binding is unstitched and some pages are split. Artwork is in overall good condition, good impressions. A remarkably lovely sumi-e botanical. .

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