Condition First edition, Meiji 28 (1895). Lower volume: cover shows sun fading, with edge tears, damage, and small losses along the edges. Upper volume: average to slightly above-average condition for its age. Please check the photos for details. Artist Mizuno Toshikata? Title Nichiyo Hokan – Kijo no Shiori (Complete Set of Upper and Lower Volumes)? […]
Is a refined and emotionally resonant woodblock print by Mizuno Toshikata, created in 1908 during the late Meiji period. This work was produced as a. (frontispiece illustration) for the influential literary magazine Bungei Kurabu, a publication that played a major role in shaping modern Japanese literary and visual culture. The title, which may be translated […]
Toshikata was trained as a painter and printmaker in Tokyo in the 1880s. He became a well-known Ukiyo-e printmaker and newspaper illustrator in the 1890s, designing war prints and battle scenes based on the Sino-Japanese War and later as a designer of “bijin” (beautiful women) and genre prints. He produced the “Modern Beauties” series in […]