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Ono Bakufu (1888-1976)
Great Japanese Fish Picture Collection (Dai Nihon gyorui gashu), Volume 1, 1937-38
The complete set of 12 woodblock prints, comprising:

1.Sea bream
2.Sweet Fish
3.Spiny lobster
4.Bera
5.Mahaze
6.Flying fish
7.Rockfish
8.Crucian carp
9.File fish
10.Rainbow trout
11.Halibut
12.Goldfish

Each mounted at corners to original card mounts, original orange folio with title slip and with 12 original individually-bound leaflets in both English and Japanese with information relating to each type of fish

Published by Nishinomiya Shoin, 1937-38, some designs embellished with mica details
The folio 50 x 38cm x 2cm., each print approx. 42 x 28.2cm.
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