TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1832-1892)

Estimated Value:

10.000 € - 15.000 €

Schätzpreis:

34.000 €

Description:

Japan, 1885-1892
je ca. 37 x 25 cm
97 colour woodblock prints. Ôban. Series: Tsuki hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon), signed: Yoshitoshi, Yoshitoshi giga, sealed Yoshitoshi, Taiso and Yoshitoshi no in, publisher: Akiyama Buemon, engravers: Yamamoto, Nigouchi, Enkatsu, Yoshihisa, Naoyama and Esen. Dates: 1885/10-1892.
Franconian private collection, collected before 2000
Compare: Complete sets of the series Tsuki hyakushi sold at Bonhams New York 23.3.2022, lot 573; Christie's Auction, 19.3.2019, lot 278
Very good impressions with gaufrage, black lacquer, silver, a little mica, and a red colour with added metallic powder which has oxidized. All ôban with full margins, except leaves no. 5, 21 and 54 which have been reduced in size by about a third. All in very good condition, about four ôban with tiny holes due to thin paper. Nos 3, 11 and 84 missing
The numbers follow the listing in: John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, San Francisco Graphic Society, Redmond, 1992

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