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UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI & RYUTE SENKA Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari

UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI & RYUTE SENKA

Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari

Tokyo 1861, 12x17,5cm, 68 feuillets, cousu.


First edition, beautifully illustrated three double color plates, many boards accented with gray and blue accented with a few boards and more than a hundred plates in black and white. Printing on mulberry japan. Following very imaginative and very fine. Then sewn brochure in blue paper. few pages with small attack to high margin without affecting the boards. Friction on the flat top with decorative paper loss of over 0.5 mn. Very nice copy with superb colors and very well printed. Jiraiya is a very famous legendary figure in Japan; once a powerful clan leader, he became a leader of thieves. SUNR a sacred mountain, he learns magic toads, giving him the power to transform into animals. He will find the responsible for his downfall and kill man; Jiraiya then meet a woman who would become his wife and who knows magic snails ... This work corresponds to the end of the life of two artists, Uatagawa Kuniyoshi, also known under the name Utagawa Toyokuni III (1786 - 1865), Senka and Ryute or Ryukatei Tanekazu (1807-1868), author of several picture books (goukan).

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