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Fujin Fuzoku zukushi
by Ogata Gekko

This acordion type Japanese picture album is/was offered in artelino's fourth e-hon auction in September 2003. The image book is titled Fujin Fuzoku zukushi (List of Customs and Manners for Women) and contains 36 woodblock prints in Oban size by Ogata Gekko (1859-1920). 

The album opens from the right. Eighteen print images are on the frontside and eighteen on the backside. The album was produced with utmost care and is luxuriously decorated with embossing, metallic pigments and shomen-zuri.

Publisher was Matsuki Heikichi and the publishing date was 1898. This album was presented in "Dai San-kai Naikoku Kangyo Hakuran-kai" (the 3rd Trade Exposition in Japan) and received the excellence award for the specialty item art printings.

In Company of a Cat

Playing Koto

Doing her Hair

Cooling off at Riverside

Viewing Cherry Blossom

Praying in Kannon Temple

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