Joreishiki no Zu (Illustrations of Ladies' Etiquette)

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Joreishiki no Zu ["Illustrations of Ladies' Etiquette"] 

[Yasui], Kotō [illustrated by].

Nihonbashi, [Tōkyō]: Matsuno Yonejirō, Meiji 28 [1895].

A colour woodblock-printed album of scenes of elegant Japanese ladies engaging in traditionally appropriate pastimes and ceremonies. The fourteen scenes spread over eight leaves picture women exchanging New Year greetings, participating in a wedding ceremony, arranging flowers, drinking tea, singing, studying, playing Go (?), painting, bowing while seated, exchanging pleasantries, smelling incense, practicing the koto, embroidering, and arranging bonseki (miniature landscapes). The little-known artist, Yasui Kotō, seems to have produced several other works together with the publisher, the jihon doiya Matsuno Yonejirō.

One accordion-folding orihon volume, complete. Original boards lightly soiled and marked. Minor creases and marks internally. Small bumps to extremities. [8] leaves. 17.5 x 12 cm.

Joreishiki no Zu (Illustrations of Ladies' Etiquette)
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