Yachigusa (Sundry herbs)

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Yachigusa ["Sundry herbs"]

Ueno, Seikō [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Honda Unkindō, Meiji 34 [1901].

Volume two of Yachigusa, featuring thirty haori designs by Ueno Seikō. The work uses printing and carving techniques including sabibori (a carving technique used to produce an effect mimicking brushstrokes), kirazuri (printing with mica), bokashi (gradation), karazuri (blind-debossing) and shōmenzuri (blind-embossing). Metallic pigments and gofun (a white calcium carbonate pigment made from crushed seashells) have also been used. A collection of eye-catching designs for haori by the skilled zuan artist Ueno Seikō.

One four-hole (yotsutoji) volume, complete, on double leaves, traditional East Asian binding style (fukurotoji). Light soiling, creases, marks, and abrasion to original wrappers. Extremities rubbed. First page and colophon browned. Very minor soiling, a few small marks, and occasional offsetting to prints. Trivial foxing to one print. Volume two of Yachigusa. Unpaged (16 unnumbered leaves). 25.1 x 17.7 cm.

Yachigusa (Sundry herbs)
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