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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Fine Views of the Eastern Capital at a Glance (Toto shokei ichiran), 1815
2 volumes (complete) in yellow covers, title-slips missing

Volume 1 with 11 leaves, comprising 3 pages of preface, 9 double-page illustrations in colour of famous places in Edo with kyoka poems above

Volume 2 with 11 leaves, comprising 10 double-page illustrations and one single page of famous places in Edo with kyoka poems above, a colophon as the last page listing Hokusai Tatsumasa as the artist and Andi Enshi as the engraver, dated 9th month of the Year of the Boar (1815), publishers Suharaya Mohei, Suharaya Ihachi of Edo, Hishiya Kimbei of Nagoya
25.3 x 17.9cm.

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This is the most famous book of well-known places in Edo. The places would have been instantly recognisable to the contemporary viewer and are genearlly depicted at the time of year, or the festival occasion, commonly associated with them. For example the ideal day for seeing the Yoshiwara was on the first day of August when the courtesans paraded in white kimono and this scene is depicted in volume 2. For a fully illustrated copy in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 1979,0305,0.438.1, go to www.britishmuseum.org/research