Kono, Bairei

KUSU BANA HYAKUSHU [One Hundred Varieties of Flowers] [Two volumes]

Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, [1901]. First Edition. Octavos, two volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Fukurotoji binding with blue paper wraps with age toned white labels bearing titles in Chinese to front wraps. Wraps marked and rubbed, with minor bumping to corners. Text blocks lightly age toned, with a few scattered pencil annotations (not impacting images). This listing is for the first two volumes of the series (issued in 1901) only, and does not include the two supplemental volumes issued in 1903. Text in Japanese.

CONTENTS: Vol. 1 (2 pages of text, 58 color woodblock plates) -- Vol. 2 (58 color plates, 3 pages of text).

Shelved case 11.

1379877

Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $1,500

NOTES

Kono Bairei (1844-1895) was an artist who specialized in kacho-e (depictions of birds and flowers). This work was published after his death by his student, Kono Seiko.