Dōhan gashū (Album of copperplate prints)

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Dōhan gashū ["Album of copperplate prints"]

[Illustrator unidentified].

[Japan: Naitō Den'uemon, ca. early to mid-Meiji period (1870-80s)].

An album of 94 tipped-in copperplate prints from Uchida Masao's 13-volume geography textbook Yochi shiryaku ("A Compilation of Geographical Knowledge"). The prints, which were based on images found in Western books, feature views of London (including the British Museum), Bristol, Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, Le Mont-Saint-Michel, Amsterdam, Timbuktu, Moscow, Geneva, The Hague, Tunisia, Istanbul, Cairo, Abyssinia, Uganda, Cape Town, America (the White House, Princeton University, California, etc.), the Sahara Desert, and many other locations. Comparison of the several duplicate prints in the album shows the presence of different states and may be useful in demonstrating differences in printing techniques. All of the prints are captioned in Japanese.

One five-hole-bound (itsutsumetoji) volume, on double leaves, traditional East Asian binding style (fukurotoji). Original wrappers lightly worn and with a few marks. Mounted daisen title panel handwritten. Browning and creases internally. Occasional wormholes, stains, and small tears to tipped-in prints. Intermittent ex-ownership stamps to leaves. [28] leaves. 26.3 x 17.7 cm.

Dōhan gashū (Album of copperplate prints)
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