四季山水図 4 Seasons Landscapes / 熊谷 直彦 Kumagai Naohiko 1829-19134 Seasons Landscapes Kumagai Naohiko 1829 1913 Handpainted on silk Size 34 x 26 x 3. 5 cm 12 handpainted landscapes, ink and pigment on silk, Kumagai Naohiko 1829 1913 Biography: https: ja. wikipedia. org wiki %E7%86%8A%E8%B0%B7%E7%9B%B4%E5%BD%A6 last photo (20x magnification) shows the structure of silk and pigment Orihon (accordion) book structure. No foxing, stains or tear. Normal yellowish for its age. Sealed and signed on each design. Comes with

their poems and annotations

which celebrated the lifestyle of the scholarly recluse

Missing back cover

Impressive very long emakimono

Marubeni Shoten designs

a few small stains

“according to historical facts”

Title: 火乃要心 Hi no Yogore - Fire Prevention

1705 ) was a poet

Sugiura Hisui

Other than a reference to the prints being created using "advanced woodblock techniques" allowing "each artist's unique use of color and brushwork" to be faithfully reproduced

were lost/destroyed in the war so the few editions that followed were linotype or color collotype reproductions