Hamaogishū (Collection of Seashore Reeds)

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Hamaogishū ["Collection of Seashore Reeds"]

Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by]. 

[Japan: publisher unidentified], Meiji 18 [1885].

A short selection of poems accompanied by one woodblock-printed karazuri (blind-embossed) frontispiece signed and stamped in the block by Kyōsai. The collection of poems (probably privately printed by those in the poetry group) was published in Meiji 18, a year of the rooster. It may have been based on the similarly titled three-volume collection of kyōka poetry Kyōka Hamaogishū (1812). The title presumably alludes to the famous line "What is called ashi in Naniwa is called hamaogi in Ise" recorded in the Tsukubashū (1356) anthology of renga poetry. The frontispiece of a rooster and hen is uncharacteristically staid for a work by Kyōsai. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts holds a single-sheet version of the illustration. No copies traced in OCLC.

One four-hole-bound (yotsumetoji) volume, complete, on double leaves, traditional East Asian binding style (fukurotoji). Original wrappers and frontispiece lightly marked. Previous binding holes to margins. Light creases to leaves. 9 leaves. 22.1 x 14.8 cm.

Hamaogishū (Collection of Seashore Reeds)
Price: $350.00 (USD)