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*NEW*: 2025 ANTIQUES: CHINESE ARTS AUCTION RECORDS 2024.1.1-2024.12.31
2025 Gudong Paimai Nianjian 2025 古董拍賣年鑑.

Abe, Stanley:
- ORDINARY IMAGES

AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES - BACKHOFF AND WAGENER

Acharya, Sanjay:
- BHUTAN

Adams, Edward B:
- ART TREASURES OF SEOUL

Alexander, William & Mason, George:
- VIEWS OF 18TH CENTURY CHINA: COSTUMES, HISTORY, CUSTOMS

Allen, H. M. ed:
- LETTERS OF P. S. ALLEN

Andrews, F. H:
- WALL PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT SHRINES IN CENTRAL ASIA

ANNINGHE LIUYU DA SHI MU
(Remains of Large Stone Tombs Found on the Anning River) 安寧河流域大石窟.

Yuhas, Louise ed:
- ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 25

ARS ORIENTALIS VOLUME 33

Asahi Shimbun ed:
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER SIX
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER NINE
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER TEN - TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE
- THIS IS JAPAN 1965 - NUMBER 12
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 13
- THIS IS JAPAN - NUMBER 16

Asian Art Museum:
- 5,000 YEARS OF KOREAN ART

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MISCELLANY VOL II: THIRD SERIES

TAKSG2
Takeuchi Seiho & Ogawa Kazumasa: SEIHO GAFU. (Albums of Paintings by Seiho). 棲鳳畫譜。竹內棲鳳 小川一真。 山田直三郎 藝竹堂 發行. Kyoto, 1899 & 1900. Vol. 1: 1 page preface, 1 page list contents, 10 full page b/w plates and 2 full page original colour woodblock prints; Vol. 2: 1 page list of contents and 12 full page b/w plates; Vol. 3: 1 page list of contents and 10 full page b/w plates. 3 vols. 37x25 cm. Stitched. Paper covers.
GBP 1,200.00
Takeuchi Seiho (1864-1942) was a leading painter and light of the print world at the end of the Meiji, the Taisho and through into the first part of the Showa period in Japan. He studied traditional Japanese shijo painting under Kono Bairei and Tsuchida Eirin and then travelled in Europe studying western painting. These three volumes primarily comprise fine and large full page black-and-white collotype plates of Seiho's paintings and drawings and was published by Yamada Naosoburo at the leading woodblock printing house, Unsodo, in Kyoto. Testament to Seiho's establishment as a painter of reputation. There are also two full page original colour woodblock prints.
  To add further interest and lustre to this work, the photographic plates are by the famous early 20th century photographer, Ogawa Kazumasa, and were done at a time when Ogawa was at the peak of his career. (ogawa is also known for his photography in China at the time of the Boxer Rebellion). More testament to the high regard for Seiho's work.
  Foreword by the 'Master of Unsodo'. Then three volumes of illustration with a total of 32 full page black-and-white collotype photographic plates and two original colour woodblock prints.
  A practically-unknown work of Seiho's paintings and Ogawa's fine photography and an elusive work in itself about which we can find little detail. A relatively early work by Unsodo (established 1891). Volume One dated Meiji 32 (1899), volumes 2 and 3 dated Meiji 33 (1900).
  It is possible that there is a fourth volume to this work but we can find little information as to what a set should comprise. Unsodo published a larger (8?) volume version of this work,10 years later in 1912, presumably to catalogue Seiho's ever-increasing body of work and fame.
  Original colour woodblock-printed covers with cherry blossom designs to the three volumes. All text in Japanese. Generally in good condition. Good colour to the woodblock-printed covers and firm in bindings. Some minor marks and wear and creasing to tissue guards.
  Very rare both as a survey of Seiho's work and as a compilation of images by Ogawa. The first time we have handled this work. We have priced it on the assumption that a fourth volume does exist.
Subjects: Painting Woodcuts
Item 119 in List 214.
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