"Nōga taikan" 能画大鑑 (Great Mirror of Paintings of No Plays) - Tsukioka Kogyo 月岡 耕漁 - Japan

Nōga Taikan (A Great Mirror of Noh Pictures)
Tsukioka Kōgyo

Magnificent rare complete edition with 200 original woodblock prints.
The 3rd and last of the major series of Noh prints by Tsukioka Kōgyo (about 20 prints are made by his student Matsuno Sōfū, because Kōgyo died before finishing the set).

Each print is a full page depicting a scene of a Noh-play, with a semi-transparant full page sheet before it stating the play title and synopsis.

Publisher Seibi Shoin Tokyo
Showa 11 (1936)

Book in folding cover.
Condition: Good, please view photos.
40x26x5 cm
3.600 gr



A recent publication on Kōgyo:

Staging the Supernatural: Ghosts and the Theater in Japanese Prints
https://www.amazon.nl/Staging-Supernatural-Ghosts-Theater-Japanese/dp/1588347206 

and :

The Beauty of Silence: Japanese No & Nature Prints by Tsukioka Kogyo 1869-1927
https://www.amazon.fr/Beauty-Silence-Japanese-Tsukioka-1869-1927/dp/9004193855




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