Lot Details
Lot 163
Katsushika Hokusai
, Ehon Toshisen, Picture Book of Tang Peoms, 5 vols. complete, aubergine kiku-head printed covers, title slips basically complete, Tempo 4 (1833), Kobayashi Shinbei, publisher, Nihonbashi, Edo; moderately good impressions and states, some wear to covers.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Sold for $1,200 (includes buyer's premium)
Additional Notes & Condition Report
Poetry of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) was considered the apogee of that cerebral art and has since then been copied, repeated and revered. Tang poetry is divided into three types, Jue-qu, Lu and Ku-shi. Jue-qu consists of four verses: the first begins the composition, the second fleshes it out, the third turns it and the fourth completes it. In Lu there are eight verses in which the third and fourth and the fifth and sixth are paired. Ku-shi is the oldest of the forms and does not rely on rhymes. There are two sub-forms of each of them: wuyen and qiyen of five and seven word verses and efforts were made in the Ehon to illustrate examples of each.
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