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[FAN ALBUM] : MEIJI-TAISHO ERA FAN ALBUM FROM KYOTO

[FAN ALBUM] MEIJI-TAISHO^ ERA FAN ALBUM FROM KYOTO. Fan albums are an interesting genre. Created as marketing tools for deluxe fan makers, they are a compilation of a season's available designs, commissioned from some of the most eminent artists of the day. Once the season was over, the sample books were sold - a very limited production. They have largely disappeared from the market, almost before anyone noticed how interesting they really are. 1) Tachika Chikuson. Chinese Coastal Scene [dated 1918] 2) Tachika Chikuson. Pine Sprouts 3) Imao Keinen. Pine Tree, River & Mountain 4) Kikuchi Keigetsu. Flowers 5) Tomioka Tessai. Chinese figures & poems 6) Kawabata Gyokusho. Fishing in Winter 7) Bokko [picture]; Kakuko [inscription] Lake scene with willows [dated 1917] 8) Konoshima Okoku. Lakeside village 9) Suzuki Shonen. Mt. Fuji & travelers 10) Tomioka Tessai. Hyotan (gourd for drinking) Basket & poem. 11) Inogai Shokoku. Palace figures watering a pine sapling. 12) Konoshima Okoku. Pine sprouts and flowing water. 13) Toyonaka?. Stone, Bamboo (in red) & poem. 14) Abe Tansai. Woodsman & fisherman discuss Confucius 15) Kakuko. (see number 7) 16) Hokei. Coastal scene. 17) Iguchi Kashu. Cormorant Fishing. 18) Signed Shisho-dojin; sealed Taiotsu. Hotei/Daitoku figure, with inscription. 19) Konishi Fukunen. Coastal village. 20) Kawabata Gyokusho. Snowscape. Poem signed Taiotsu-dojin, sealed Taiotsu. (see number 18) 21) Matsumura Keibun (Edo period artist). Boat-pullers; Taisho calligraphy by ? 22) Konoshi Fukunen, poem by the same calligrapher as number 21. 23) Kawamura Kogai. Autumn scene. 24) Nishimura Goun. Mountain temple. 25) Hiroshige Tokaido scene. 26) " " " This particular example is probably from the late teens. Lovely printings and colors, good to very good condition, In a custom-designed sensu-shaped clasped case., Very Good

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