Lot 2015: Yamaguchi Soken (1759-1818)

Soken sansu gafu (Book of landscape drawings by Soken), published 1818 Comprising the complete set of two volumes, depicting landscapes in line drawings and ink shading, published in Kyoto, grey covers with title slips, in slip case: Vol. 1 with four pages of preface by Sanyo Gaishi and two single-sheet and twenty-five double-sheet illustrations Vol. 2 with one single-sheet and twenty-five double-sheet illustrations 10 3/8 x 7 3/8in (26.4 x 18.8cm)

26.4 x 18.8cm

A description of this work is published in C.H. Mitchell's The Illustrated Books of the Nanga, Maruyama, Shijo and Other Related Schools of Japan (Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1972), page 499.