GAKUTEI (1786-1868) Kyōka Suikoden

YASHIMA GAKUTEI  (1786-1868)

Kyōka Suikoden
One volume, complete, 22,2x15,5 cm

Edited by Jingairō taijin (Jingairō Kyōmi 1786-1834), Edosono taijin,
Fukunoya taijin (Fukunoya Uchinari)
1822

A woodblock printed book with portraits of poets of the Go-gawa group
associated with the 108 heroes of Suikoden, the famous Chinese novel.

This copy probably includes parts of an edition in two volumes.
Two-page preface dated Bunsei 5 (1822) signed Fukunoya Uchinari
followed by sixty-two single-page portraits, sheets numbered from
no. 13 to 21 and from no. 34 to no. 55. The last portrait is of Ichikawa
Sanshō (Ichikawa Danjūrō VII) followed by the colophon with editors’
names, engraving completed in Bunsei jingo (1822). 
Additional several pages of text with seven double page illustrations of poets 
at leisure, two of landscape and two more single page illustrations. 
Each signed Gakutei.

For another copy see Kerlen. Catalogue of Pre-Meiji Japanese Books no. 996.

llustrated in our catalogue Surimono. Hokusai-Shinsai-Hokkei-Gakutei, 
September 2024, no. 64.

Good impression and condition

Price: Euro 2500

Status: Available




Item: MHS 12