Nakagawa Kiun's Kyō Warabe (京童) Guide to famous places in Kyoto, vol. 4, Meireiki 4, 明暦4 [1658] in emakimono form, colored version

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Nakagawa Kiun's Kyō Warabe (京童) Guide to famous places in Kyoto, vol. 4, Meireiki 4, 明暦4 [1658] in emakimono form, colored versionInitially thought to be a Meiji scroll is in fact the fourth volume of Ky Warabe ( loosely translated as "Guide to Famous Places in Kyoto") published in Meireiki 4 (1658) made (most probably for better preserving) into an emakimono mounting. To my knowledge, there are only 2 libraries in Japan that hold the volumes (Waseda, missing the fifth volume and Ritsumeikan Univ. and in Tokyo Museum) None of those libraries have or mention a color version.

sealedNational Diet Library entry: https://iss

consisting of four volumes with commentary and calligraphic tributes (see Figure 4A for an example of one such tribute) and in sixteen individual bound booklets each containing five prints

This one has 36 prints

I cannot read the seal script

titled Tung blossom bird 桐花小禽Suiko Fukuda is from the circle of Kyoto painters and printmakers

See National Diet Library: https://dl

The entire work is composed of 55 episodes compiled by Yamada Isai 山田意斎and 35 monochrome illustrations crafted by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

The volumes can be seen in Pulverer collections here: https://pulverer

Superb ink on paper brushwork

in his own way

It appears that these last four volumes were not issued separately but that a new publisher (Shuseikan who had already published vol

Ōishi Yoshio 大石良雄

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