Edo prints
| Publisher: | Takejirō Hasegawa (1853-1938) | |||||
| Title: | Sword & Blossom Poems: second album | |||||
| Size: | 18.0 x 12.5 cm | |||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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This is the second album in the Sword & Blossom Poems three-volume set. As the colophon in the album indicates, this is its first edition printed in Meiji 41, the eighth month, the first day (i.e., August the 1st, 1908):
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The cover of this album is a crepe woodblock print fastened onto a padded board. Its contents and number and types of printings can all be seen here. All the text in these three albums was carved and printed simultaneously with the images. Moreover, the lettering used for all this text was specifically designed by publisher Hasegawa, and is now therefore known as “the Hasegawa font”. A digitized version of the font created in Summer 2019 by Markku Mujunen can be obtained from his website here.
The 3-volume set that I was able to obtain came with a blue wrap-around case with ivory clasps:
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Provenance: The Baxley Stamps website