Jun 03, 2014 - Sale 2352

Sale 2352 - Lot 305

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(JAPAN--NEWSPAPERS.) Picture Newspaper reproving Vice and protecting Virtue (Kanzen choaku Nishikie Shimbun). Numbers 4-19 inclusive. Together, 16 color woodblock prints showing evil deeds. Each approximately 175x245 mm (7x9 1/2 inches). Osaka, circa 1880

Additional Details

Nice run of a Japanese tabloid sheet which developed from bulletins called kawaraban. Each sheet contains a single story of murder, drownings, infanticide, violence, etc.