HINA HYAKUSHU (lit: “Hundred Kinds of Hina”)
Vol.03 (a book from complete in 3 volumes)
About 60 pages throughout colored woodcuts. Original title slip and wood block printing cover. Althoubh minor water spotting in page margins, overall good preservation condition.
A masterpiece that crystallizes a huge collection entrusted to Nishizawa Tekiho (a Japanese-style painter who created an opportunity to evaluate dolls, which were known for collecting and criticizing dolls and were recognized as only toys, as works of art) by his adoptive father, who was anxious to convey the charm of dolls to the world, into a woodcut album.
Hina-ningyo are Japanese dolls born from a mixture of folk beliefs and the house playing of court children, and are displayed at the annual Hinamatsuri (Doll's Day).
The most generalized Hina-ningyo for the Japanese is a set of ornamental dolls representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress, in this book contains hundreds of local Hina dolls that are unknown even to Japanese people. Since the central characters are Emperor and Empress, there is always a male and female pair, even when simplified.
Author Writer or ●Editor: Nishizawa Tekiho, Kubota Beisai
Painter: Nishizawa Tekiho
Publisher: Unso-do (Kyoto)
Date: Taisho 4 (1915)
Size: 20 × 28 cm, Horizontal book
Painter: Nishizawa Tekiho
Publisher: Unso-do (Kyoto)
Date: Taisho 4 (1915)
Size: 20 × 28 cm, Horizontal book
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