Nishikawa Sukenobu - Nishikawa Sukenobu - 1914

There are two booklets. Very nice printing of the facsimile editions from 1914; all the printed pages look beautiful and undamaged. The cassette is damaged but has kept the booklets in good condition all these years. Preserved in acid-free foil.
Length 26.5 cm (cassette)
Width 20 cm (cassette)
Thickness 2.4 cm (cassette)
Weight including (cassette) 52 grams

Two volumes in cassette titled: Nihon fuzoku'e, nisatsu 日本風俗絵二冊 (Manners and Customs of Japan in Pictures in two volumes).

Facsimile edition from Taisho 3 (1914) of three of the best-known works by Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671-1750), the early Japanese ukiyo-e master (from before the invention of color woodblock printing).

Vol.1: Hyakunin jorô shinasadame 百人女品定下 (One Hundred Women Classified According to their Rank, 1723), part 2. One hundred women from the Empress to bathhouse attendants and prostitutes, each depicted by their tasks. Ehon kagamiyama 絵本鏡見山 (Mount Kagami, a Picture-book, 1747, also known as Ehon Kawanagusa 絵本河名草). Women in kimono.

Vol.2: Ehon Asakayama 絵本浅香山 (Mount Asaka, a Picture-book, 1739) Women in kimono and some wakashû (fashionable boys, in the West often taken for girls).
Hyakunin jorô shinasadame 百人女品定上, part 1.