SHINA FUKO^ ZU-E

Book Description

1936. Good. [PRINT ALBUM] Takeuchi SEIHO. SHINA FUKO ZU-E. [Kyoto, Otsuka Minoru, Showa 11 - 1936; #106 of 150cc]. Large portfolio 43 x 54 cm. Twelve prints of China [ea. 32 X 43 cm image size] Wonderfully well printed using a hybrid of collotype with woodcut printed color overlays. In a broken cloth-over-boards portfolio with printed silk title label. The prints are tipped onto backing mattes and covered with tissue. The tissue is foxing, but only the last print shows the effect. Overall fairly good condition for this fragile and very scarce item. Baldinger in his article about Seiho mentions this series as complete in 12 (of a total of 36 projected) images. Displayed in Europe, one of the original paintings (Rain at Soochow) won Seiho membership in the Legion of Honor. Otsuka Kogeisha was known for its remarkable technical virtuosity in capturing in prints the delicacy of watercolour paintings. Done about the same time that Unsodo, using similar techniques, was publishing Seiho's IPPINSHU portfolio.

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