Hikobae (Root sprouts)

ENQUIRE

Hikobae ["Root sprouts"]

Ōta, Saburō [illustrated by].

Tōkyō: Seibidō , Meiji 44 [1911].

An album featuring a three-page preface by the artist and seventy full-page illustrations in a variety of media, including half-tones and lithographs, on a variety of papers, several tipped-in. The illustrator, Ōta Saburō (1884-1969, sometimes referred to as Ōta Samurō), studied Western-style painting under the artist and politician Kuroda Seiki (1866-1924) and Japanese-style painting under Terasaki Kōgyō (1866-1919). Following a trip overseas in the 1920s, Ōta's style was influenced by Cubism and Fauvism. The work is recorded in the colophon as Shōhin gashū: hikobae ("Album of small pictures: root sprouts").

One volume, complete. Original boards, with light stains and marks. Spine and extremities slightly browned. Corners lightly bumped. Offsetting, browning, and occasional foxing to leaves. Unpaginated. 22.7 x 15 cm.

Hikobae (Root sprouts)
SOLD