Item #387 Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome. Yuko Watanabe.
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome
Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome

Japanese types illustrated by Mrs. Yuko Watanabe, No 68 Naka-Okachimachi Sanchome

Tokyo: Yuko Watanabe, 1887.

9" x 12" pp. [52] including 25 lithographic plates, one text leaf, and one tissue guard. First edition. Bound in original paper covers; sewn Japanese style, oriented Western. A Meiji-era collection of illustrations by Yuko Watanabe, a female artist and educator who taught Western-style painting. Illustrations feature "daily life" Japanese scenes of cooking, dressing, breastfeeding, gardening, home decorating, and samurai; all likely with a Western audience in mind. Printed in sienna or black ink; wrappers worn which affect ink at the imprint mark; a tidemark appears on the fore-edge. Small book plate from Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. from Yokohama. 

Item #387

A stand-out fashion motif compilation that depicts the feminine daily life, all collected by a Japanese female artist. 

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Price: $1,800.00

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