KITAO SHIGEMASA; KATSUKAWA SHUNSHÔ Seirô bijin awase sugata kagami: haru, natsu, aki, fuyu [Mirror of Forms of Fair Women of the Green Houses: spring, summer, autumn, winter]. Tokyo, Fuzoku emaki zuga konkokai, 3 vol., 30,4 x cm. Vol. I: spring and summer: pp., pp. ink and colour ill. Vol. II: autumn and winter: pp., pp. ink and colour ill. Vol. III: pp. text, 7 pp. ink and colour ill. Four-hole binding, book covers with title slip, in cloth wrapped case with floral patterns (closing elements lost). Later edition of one of "the finest of all [Japanese] color-printed picture-books" (Hillier), originally published: Edo: An’ei (1776). A Mirror of the Forms of Rival Beauties of the Green Houses is a behind-the-scenes study of geisha life, the "crowning achievement in books" of ukiyo-e artists Shigemasa (1739-and Shunsho (1726-1793).
KITAO SHIGEMASA; KATSUKAWA SHUNSHÔ Seirô bijin awase sugata kagami: haru, natsu, aki, fuyu [Mirror of Forms of Fair Women of the Green Houses: spring, summer, autumn, winter]. Tokyo, Fuzoku emaki zuga konkokai, 3 vol., 30,4 x cm. Vol. I: spring and summer: pp., pp. ink and colour ill. Vol. II: autumn and winter: pp., pp. ink and colour ill. Vol. III: pp. text, 7 pp. ink and colour ill. Four-hole binding, book covers with title slip, in cloth wrapped case with floral patterns (closing elements lost). Later edition of one of "the finest of all [Japanese] color-printed picture-books" (Hillier), originally published: Edo: An’ei (1776). A Mirror of the Forms of Rival Beauties of the Green Houses is a behind-the-scenes study of geisha life, the "crowning achievement in books" of ukiyo-e artists Shigemasa (1739-and Shunsho (1726-1793).
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