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[DESIGN] UENO Kiyoe, designer : HANA NO KAKE

[DESIGN] UENO Kiyoe, designer. HANA NO KAKE. Meiji 33 [1900]. Kyoto, Honda Ichijiro. String-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji, 17.5 x 24.4 cm, 30 full page color plates after designs by Ueno, one of the most important Yuzen dyers of his day. Published by Honda Ichijiro, later the founder of Unkindo^. The covers and the interior are clean and the printings and colors are excellent (with metallic inks, blind-stamping, etc.). The fourth volume of this series. (See Cheryl Boettcher, THE KIMONO IMAGINED, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana).