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Tachibana Morikuni 橘守国 (1679–1748) - "Unpitsu soga" 運筆麁画 (The Moving Brush in Rough Painting), vol. 1-3. Complete. - 1749
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Tachibana Morikuni 橘守国 (1679–1748) - "Unpitsu soga" 運筆麁画 (The Moving Brush in Rough Painting), vol. 1-3. Complete. - 1749

Titel: "Unpitsu soga" 運筆麁画 (The Moving Brush in Rough Painting), vol. 1-3. 3 delen. Complete set. Illustrator: Tachibana Morikuni 橘守国 (1679–1748). Uitgever: Nishimura Genroku 西村源六, Edo, in samenwerking met Shibukawa Seiemon 渋川清右衛門 / Shibukawa Yoichi 渋川与市, Osaka. Jaar van uitgave: 1749 (Kan'en 2). Formaat: 27 x 18,2 cm (obon). Met resp. 24, 20 en 20 gevouwen bladen, met 66 houtsnedes, waaronder 50 tweeluiken. Conditie: omslagen met soms sterke gebruikssporen. Titelvignet vol. II ontbreekt. Vol. I: stempel en aantekening op voorste schutblad. Twee houtsnedes met inktvegen. Vol. II: schutbladen met inktaantekeningen. Eerste 5 gevouwen bladen met onderin in de marge een inktvlek. En enkele bladen met een wormgat. Vol. III: inktaantekeningen op voorste schutblad. Inkt over stempels op eerste en laatste pagina. Enkele pagina's met kleine inktsporen. Verder verkeren de delen in een goede staat. Kavel wordt met zorg verpakt en verzekerd met een track & trace code verstuurd. Zie ook de Pulverer Collection: https://pulverer.si.edu/node/956/title 'Tachibana Morikuni (1679-1748), ..., was the most prolific book-illustrator working in the Kanō tradition in the early eighteenth century… One book stands apart for quite other reasons from the rest designed by Morikuni: the Umpitsu Soga, a book of 1749 aiming to deal with the technique of Sō (‘cursive’ or ‘coarse’ brushwork), and introducing, if not for the first time, then for the first time on such a systematic scale, new methods in preparing woodblocks to convey tonal effects of ink-painting, not by black outlines or by lines in white reserve, but by roughening the surface of the wood to produce a scumbling, almost mezzotint-like effect, and by ‘lowering’ certain areas, which then printed more faintly than the remainder of the block …' (Jack Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, p. 189-193)

No. 83258251

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Tachibana Morikuni 橘守国 (1679–1748) - "Unpitsu soga" 運筆麁画 (The Moving Brush in Rough Painting), vol. 1-3. Complete. - 1749

Tachibana Morikuni 橘守国 (1679–1748) - "Unpitsu soga" 運筆麁画 (The Moving Brush in Rough Painting), vol. 1-3. Complete. - 1749

Titel: "Unpitsu soga" 運筆麁画 (The Moving Brush in Rough Painting), vol. 1-3.

3 delen. Complete set.

Illustrator: Tachibana Morikuni 橘守国 (1679–1748).

Uitgever: Nishimura Genroku 西村源六, Edo, in samenwerking met Shibukawa Seiemon 渋川清右衛門 / Shibukawa Yoichi 渋川与市, Osaka.

Jaar van uitgave: 1749 (Kan'en 2).

Formaat: 27 x 18,2 cm (obon).

Met resp. 24, 20 en 20 gevouwen bladen, met 66 houtsnedes, waaronder 50 tweeluiken.

Conditie: omslagen met soms sterke gebruikssporen. Titelvignet vol. II ontbreekt. Vol. I: stempel en aantekening op voorste schutblad. Twee houtsnedes met inktvegen. Vol. II: schutbladen met inktaantekeningen. Eerste 5 gevouwen bladen met onderin in de marge een inktvlek. En enkele bladen met een wormgat. Vol. III: inktaantekeningen op voorste schutblad. Inkt over stempels op eerste en laatste pagina. Enkele pagina's met kleine inktsporen. Verder verkeren de delen in een goede staat.

Kavel wordt met zorg verpakt en verzekerd met een track & trace code verstuurd.

Zie ook de Pulverer Collection: https://pulverer.si.edu/node/956/title

'Tachibana Morikuni (1679-1748), ..., was the most prolific book-illustrator working in the Kanō tradition in the early eighteenth century…
One book stands apart for quite other reasons from the rest designed by Morikuni: the Umpitsu Soga, a book of 1749 aiming to deal with the technique of Sō (‘cursive’ or ‘coarse’ brushwork), and introducing, if not for the first time, then for the first time on such a systematic scale, new methods in preparing woodblocks to convey tonal effects of ink-painting, not by black outlines or by lines in white reserve, but by roughening the surface of the wood to produce a scumbling, almost mezzotint-like effect, and by ‘lowering’ certain areas, which then printed more faintly than the remainder of the block …' (Jack Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, p. 189-193)


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