Duizend grassen, Kamisaka Sekka, 1903

Title(s)

Duizend grassen
Chigusa (title on object)

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-P-1988-386

Catalogue reference

• Jap Cat V 127

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Deel één (van twee) van de derde editie; nieuwe donkerblauwe kaft; witte facsimile titelstrook middenboven; 16 bladen: eerste pagina, gedicht; tweede pagina, inhoudsopgave; 30 prenten, voornamelijk stillevens en landschappen; dekblad, colofon.

Artist

• print maker: Kamisaka Sekka (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Yamada Shinzaburo (mentioned on object)
• Yamada Geishudo (mentioned on object)

Place

Kyoto

Dating

Jun-1903

Material

• paper
• gold powder

Technique

color woodcut / blind-stamped

Measurements

height 238 mm × width 356 mm

Acquisition

purchase 1988

Copyright

Public domain

• The age of Yoshitoshi : Japanese prints from the Meiji and Taishō periods : Nagasaki, Yokohama and Kamigata prints : recent acquisitions, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Jan Frederik Heijbroek, p. 92-94, cat.nr. 127
• The art of the Japanese book, Jack Ronald Hillier, 975