Juraku Cho. 3 Volumes
1934
by JAPANESE DESIGN
1934. JAPANESE DESIGN. Juraku Cho. 3 volumes, illustrated with a total of 90 colour and monochrome woodblock plates. Oblong folio, 270 x 390 mm., bound in publisher's silk over boards in a new chitsu case. Kyoto: Unsodo, 1934. A spectacular series of designs with superb colour woodblock plates, with each volume devoted to a different motif. Volume 1 is Ryu no maki, the dragon. Volume 2 is Hoo no maki, the phoenix, and Volume 3 is Shishi no maki, the lion. Both the full colour plates and the monochrome plates facing them are masterpieces of the woodblock (truncated)