[YŪBUNKAN SHUPPANBU].有文舘出版部.

愚仙畫報 風景の巻. [Gusen gaho fukei no maki].
[Gusen Pictorial: Landscapes].

京都.[Kyoto]. 有文舘.[Yūbunkan]. 明治四十五 [ 1912]. Stock ID #160728

16 two-tone black and grey woodblock prints with accompanying Japanese text on opposite leaf, [31]pp unpaginated, four stab hole string binding, paper title label laid down upper cover. Covers worn and stained, extremities worn with loss. Some hold barely affecting the text one leaf and loss of paper upper corner lower paste down. Generally good. 16.6 x 23.9cm.

Yamauchi Gusen(1866-1927), was a staff illustrator at Osaka Asahi Newspaper. He studied under Takahashi Yuichi and Goseda Horyu. These illustrations originally drawn on Yamauchi Gusn's trip from Shanghai to Europe were first published in the Osaka Asahi Shimbun and where they proved to be very popular. (Nihonjinmei daijiten. Japanese name dictionary).

The plates in this volume show five images of Shanghai, one image of Hong Kong, one image of the southern end of the Malay Peninsula, four images of Sri Lanka's Port of Colombo Port and four images of the Suez canal. Scarce.

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