Jun 02, 2011 - Sale 2249

Sale 2249 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(COSTUME--JAPAN.) OGATA Muneyoshi. A New Illustrated Edition of Posthumous Writings by a Dyer [in Japanese]. Edited by Yoshioka and Suwa. Approximately 80 pochoir or wood block kimono pattern plates. 3 volumes. Small folio, publisher's cloth-covered boards with ties; folding case. Kyoto: Eight-Treasures Publisher, 20th century

Additional Details

Title suggests that there are poems in this collection. However, the 3 volumes contain no text beyond the title and mounted captions describing the kimono prints. If indeed there is a text volume, it was issued separately.