Kyō saishiki (Colours of the capital)

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Kyō saishiki ["Colours of the capital"]

Yamada, Kōun [frontispiece illustrated by], Yamaguchi, Sōsai [wrappers and one illustration designed by], Satō, Shiun, Tabata, Seikō, Tabata, Shiaki [Kihachi III], Kitano, Kashō, Konishi, Akiyama, Inada, Kakō, Rinshun, Takahashi, Tōsen [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Saiyūkai, Kyō Saishiki Hakkōjo, Meiji 41 [1908].

The second recorded copy of issue two of Kyō saishiki, a short-lived magazine of kimono designs produced by the Saiyūkai. The large format (36.8 x 24.7 cm) album, issue two of volume one of the magazine, contains ten colour woodblock-printed kimono designs, one colour woodblock-printed double-page frontispiece, and a colour woodblock-printed cover. The album features designs by Tabata Seikō, Yamada Kōun, and Yamaguchi Sōsai (who each provided one illustration for Unsōdō's Seiei (1903-7) or its supplement), as well as the lesser-known artists Kitano Kashō (the illustrator of Nōgaku shōzoku), the kyō-yūzen maker and artist Tabata Shiaki (Tabata Kihachi III, a pupil of nihonga who studied under Takeuchi Seihō and Kōnō Bairei), Nonoguchi Yasutarō, Konishi Akiyama (or Akeyama?), Inada Kakō (?), Rinshun (?), and Takahashi Tōsen (?). The Saiyūkai, a society about which little information is available online, produced one other similar work, Saiyū (Kyōtō: Sugimoto Shoten, Meiji 42 (1909)), a collection of kimono designs by many of the same artists as Kyō saishiki, as well as Ueno Seikō and others. The only other known copy of this issue of Kyō saishiki is held by the Kyoto Institute of Technology, together with the only recorded copy of issue one. There are no records of any later issues being published. A late-Meiji Kyoto zuan magazine that is elusive to the extent that it is virtually unknown.

Volume one, issue two. One stab-bound (musubitoji) volume, presumed complete, on double leaves, traditional East Asian binding style (fukurotoji). Original wrappers, with a few minor scratches, light fading to extremities. Foxing to index and occasionally to illustrated leaves. Some leaves lightly browned. [12] leaves. 36.8 x 24.7 cm.

Kyō saishiki (Colours of the capital)
Price: $1,785.00 (USD)