Live auction - Lot 880
Lot description
1. Katsushika Taito II (active c. 1818-1850) - Eiyu zue (Pictorial Guide to Great Heroes). Printed name: Genrûsai Taito, Bunsei 7 [1825]. 55 pp. with b/w ill., 22,3 x 15,5 cm (wear, chipping and soiling on wrappers, title slip missing, occ. stains and thumbing, mainly at edges, creased edges, thin paper, blurred and unprecise printed outlines). - 2. Yanagawa Shigenobu (?) (1787-1832) - Suiko happyakunin den [Eight Hundred Heroes of the Water Margin]. 19th c. 100 pp. with b/w ill., 23 x 16,5 cm, good impression and condition, on two pages with red and blue pencil hand-coloured images. The stories are well known in Japan and a base to modern manga and anime, the images of great dynamic.