Ki Baitei
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Ki Baitei
Kyuro Gafu (A Book of Drawings by Kuro), 1799
3062-BK
10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (27 x 19 cm)
Two volumes. Originally published about 1795, later revised and enlarged issues were published in 1799 and 1824. Includes sixty-two pages of black and white illustrations, without the Haiku poems of the 1795 version; original brown covers with subtle embossed foliage decoration and original title labels. A native of Kyoto, Ki Baitei's art was greatly influenced by Yosa Buson, a poet and painter, under whom he studied. This is listed in Graphic Art of Japan/The Classical School by Owen E. Holloway (1957) page 104, as among the chief albums of artists of the classical school and reproduced among his black and white figures at the end. It is a fine example of a beautiful book with wonderfully bold black and white lines in observation of street and pastoral life, flowers and sky. Compositions are sometimes astoundingly simple in line and they do not continue across the double page, though the balance seems always to be carefully considered.
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