An Interesting album comprising twenty-nine oban tate-e including three diptychs, two triptychs and one pentaptych, by various artists including a rare 5 sheet print by Shigeharu

An Interesting album comprising twenty-nine oban tate-e including three diptychs, two triptychs and one pentaptych, by various artists including a rare 5 sheet print by Shigeharu

Album size 37.5 x 26 cm. Sheets in varied condition – some with trimming and fading. Backed.

Included in the album is a rare 5 (of 6) sheet polyptych by Shigeharu which shows the  Pilgrimage to Ise in the Spring of 1830. This beautiful composition is an early print to use the deep Prussian blues. The composition shows a busy pilgrimage procession  by all members of society. The sun rises behind mount fuji on the left hand sheet.

2 (of 3) sheets from he 8 stages of sericulture (silk worm cultivation) by Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873)

Four Early Kunisada prints from the 1820s: Six Fashionable Jewel-like Faces (Fûryû Mu Tamagao)

Kunisada c1850 triptych: Mitsuuji Looks in from the Veranda – a scene from a parody of the Tale of the Genji

Kunisada II 1857 No. 24, Kochô, from the series Lady Murasaki's Genji Cards

Early 19thC image of the warrior on horseback Taira no Atsumori (artist unidentified)

A scene from 36 Edo interests by Hiroshige II and Kunisada

Fragments:

-Single sheet from a 1845 Kuniyoshi triptych: Cherry blossoms on the Sumida river

-2 of 3 sheets? Kunisada 1855: A Parody of the Hana no en Chapter in Genji (Mitate Genji Hana no en)

-2of 3 Kunisada – night scene on a balcony overlooking a pond with carp c1850

-2 of 3 of an unidentified Kunisada triptych from c1860

£2500