Futaba (Budding leaves)

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Futaba ["Budding leaves"]

Tabata, Kakudō [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 40 [1907].

An album of thirty full-page woodblock-printed illustrations by Tabata Kakudō. Kakudō studied under the artist Suzuki Hyakunen (1828-1891) and later became a teacher of dyeing design in Kyoto. He contributed illustrations to Unsōdō's Bijutsukai and Shingaen magazines and to the Shinzuan-kai's magazine Shinzuan while entering and winning prizes in various design exhibitions. A brief biography of Kakudō can be found on p. 127 of the "Ta" section of Dainihon jinbutsushi: ichimei gendai jinmei jisho (Tōkyo: Hakkōsha, 1913). While little is known of the life of the artist, it is evident that he played an important role in dyeing design education in Meiji-era Kyoto. Only two copies traced in OCLC, one at Stanford and the other at the NDL.

One five-hole-bound (itsutsumetoji) volume, complete, on double leaves, traditional East Asian binding style (fukurotoji). Original wrappers heavily worn, with stains, discolouration, and rubbing. Ex-ownership note on lower wrapper inked over. Binding string cut, textblock holding firm. Stains, tears, and inked-over ex-ownership notes to endpapers. Ex-bookseller's sticker to lower free endpaper. Occasional creases, marks, thumbing, and browning to illustrations. Some tissue guards lacking. [1, 15 unnumbered leaves]. 36.6 x 25 cm.

Futaba (Budding leaves)
Price: $1,850.00 (USD)