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Meiyo Ju-hachi Ban
by Toshihide Migita

This acordion type Japanese picture book is/was offered in artelino's fourth e-hon auction in September 2003. The picture album is titled Meiyo Ju-hachi Ban and has 18 diptych prints in oban size by Toshihide Migita (1863-1925). 

The album opens from the right. It has altogether eighteen diptychs - nine on the frontside and nine on the backside. The album was produced with utmost care and is luxuriously decorated with embossing, metallic pigments and shomen-zuri.

Publisher was Akyama Buemon (Kokkeido). The album was published in 1902 after the single sheets and the frontpage had been continuously published since 1893.

Ghost of Taira no Tomomori and Benkei

Gathering of Yamabushi

Nitta Shiro Yoshisada

Ise Saburo

Taira-no-koremochi

Chinese Officials

Kagekiyo Fighting in front of Buddha

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