Tennen Hyakkaku (Tennen's Hundred Cranes)

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Tennen Hyakkaku ["Tennen's Hundred Cranes"]

Kaigai, Tennen [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 34 [1901].

The third and last volume of Kaigai Tennen's Tennen Hyakkaku, featuring twenty woodblock-printed illustrations of cranes in various styles. The illustrations feature the use of metallic pigments and printing techniques including kirazuri (printing with mica), bokashi (gradation), and tsuyadashi or shōmenzuri (burnishing). In this work, cranes, considered auspicious in Japanese and Chinese culture, are often pictured together with other symbols of good fortune and longevity, like pine trees and turtles. Kaigai Tennen (1860-?), the artist, studied under the Nihonga painters Suzuki Shōnen (1848-1918) and Kishi Chikudō (1826-1897), and also produced the seven-volume album Tennen Moyō Kagami with the publisher Unsōdō between 1898 and 1899. Copies of Tennen Hyakkaku are, however, considerably more difficult to find. 

Volume three (of three). One string-bound volume, complete, on double leaves, traditional East Asian binding style (fukurotoji). Small loss to spine foot. Ex-ownership stamp and sticker to original upper wrapper, inscription to lower. Wrapper extremities chipped. Ex-ownership stamps to pastedowns; small sticker to upper pastedown. Loss to first tissue guard. Some fukurotoji split. Occasional oxidisation to metallic pigments. Light browning, foxing, offsetting, occasional creases, and minor soiling internally. [21] leaves. 31.9 x 22.2 cm.

Tennen Hyakkaku (Tennen's Hundred Cranes)
Price: $480.00 (USD)