[OKIMONO / ] SOJI, YOSHIDA (Artisan):
[Photo album with a selection of one hundred Japanese ivory ornament pieces] No place. Dated 1894.
. Oblong 8vo (15.4 x 22.4 cm). Leporello folded album with fifty photographs of okimono pieces. Pasted on good paper. Each photo depicts two ivory okimono. Numbered in pencil below the image and a list loosely inserted with numbers describing many of the pieces in English. Contemporary cloth binding. Dated and signed on front paste down, probably by Yoshida himself. With English translation in pencil. Unknown photographer. Some minor wear, the photographs are in good condition, some lightly faded.A unique piece showing an impressive collection of ivory okimono carved by Yoshida Soji. It seems he also made netsuke and other carved ivory items. Soji exhibited at least one ivory carving at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. Okimono (literary "placed object") can be made of wood, ivory, ceramic or metal. During the Meiji period, many okimono were for made for export to the West.
Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
Professional sellerBook number: 121537
€ 1800.00 [Appr.: US$ 1976.66 | £UK 1506.75 | JP¥ 293984]
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