Live auction - Lot 347
[E-hon]
Unai no tomo [A Child’s Friend]. Vol. n. 1.
Kyoto, Unsodo, Yamada Naosaburo, Meiji 24 (1891)
Hammer price: €
400
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
25,4 x 17, 5 cm: 62 pp., 52 pp. with ill., ink, colour, silver, gold and mica on paper.
Sewn.
Seifu Shimizu - entrepreneur, artist and calligrapher - collected Japanese traditional toys and began in 1891 to publish illustrations from his own paintings in a woodblock series. The eventually 10 volume series became a decisive illustrated work on Japanese folk toys.