Tale of Genji Album with 30 Lovely Woodblock Printed Crepe Paper Prints Published by Fukuda Hatsujiro
[Japan] Very nice orihon folding album containing 30 stunning prints on crepe paper depicting parts of the 54 chapters of The Tale of Genji. It seems an early owner (probably the original owner) had a selection of 30 prints from the series mounted into an album. The covers appear to be Meiji era too. Each woodblock print is numbered at the lower right in this order: 28, 14, 33, 42, 17, 15, 16, 50, 45, 40, 46, 30, 27, 26, 25, 32, 48, 13, 41, 36, 19, 29, 47, 8, 37, 12, 54, 24, 22, and 34.
Each print Nihonbashi [Tokyo]. Fukuda Hatsujiro (Gusokuya). 1897.
In very good to fine condition. Each leave is quite thick and a few pages have separated at leading edge but because each leave has various layers, the book has not separated into different sections. Overall very good. b33091049
