JAPANESE PICTURES OF JAPANESE LIFE

Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 1903. Octavo; G; Paperback; Spine, faint silver paper without print; Cover and text block are “printed on a crêpe paper known as chirimen-bon, a Japanese textile with a fine, wrinkled feel. Hasegawa combined this material with multi-colored woodblock prints to add texture, thereby creating a new technique. As a result, the book drapes softly in the hands as though made of fabric”— Illinois University Library; Printed on one side of double leaves, folded once in Japanese style, knot binding (musubitoji); Date from Library of Congress bibliographic record; Curling to edges, else clean and tight; 8 pages + several unnumbered pages, illustrated (color).

NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, on shelf above 7's Ephemera section.

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