Stock ID #177408 朝陽閣カン賞. [Chōyōkaku kanshō]. [Japanese Book of Gold Thread and Damask Fabric Designs].
朝陽閣カン賞. [Chōyōkaku kanshō]. [Japanese Book of Gold Thread and Damask Fabric Designs].
朝陽閣カン賞. [Chōyōkaku kanshō]. [Japanese Book of Gold Thread and Damask Fabric Designs].
朝陽閣カン賞. [Chōyōkaku kanshō]. [Japanese Book of Gold Thread and Damask Fabric Designs].

朝陽閣カン賞. [Chōyōkaku kanshō].
[Japanese Book of Gold Thread and Damask Fabric Designs].

[Japan]. No publisher. Meiji 16 [ 1883]. Stock ID #177408

Japanese accordion style book (orihon), 10 numbered double page colour lithograph illustrations (multiple images per page), 24.7 x 17.5 cm, patterned cloth-covered boards. Some soiling, wear to cover extremities, some even browning to pages but overall the contents are in very good condition.

The illustrations feature details of brocade cloths with gold thread and silver thread as well as damask textile and gold foiled textile. Some of the samples are enlarged so that it is possible to see the details of the weave. The book is exquisitely printed in colour to give the effect of the real thing. It is an early example of Japanese colour lithography, and an item of interest to fabric and clothing historians. The chop on the last page says that it was printed in the Printing Agency of the Treasury, dated on July 28 Meiji 16 (1883).

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