Kanroku Kubota — Masterpieces by Sesshu

Tokyo, The Shimbi Shoin, 1913. Second. Hardcover. Printed green silk on boards, silk cloth spine, purple cord tied binding, brown buckram slipcase. 9 pages of text, 60 engraved plates mostly bw, some with multiple colors. Plates have tissue protectors. Oversized and heavy. Front cover is another printed design of Sesshu's. From the introductory text: "If we point out the greatest of all landscape painters, numerous in old as well as in modern times of Japan, Sesshu must be the first one. He was a Zen priest, and his real name was Toyo; but he used several pseudonyms: Bikeisai, Beigen Sanshu, Unkoku, etc." Annotations given for each plate. Exceedingly rare. VG-, ex-library with bookplate and a few other labels and stamps. Bottom and top of text block stamped lightly. Cover show slight wear, silk spine fragile, chipped, and missing on top two inches. Slipcase has frayed spine ends, some torn cloth and separation near top and bottom of each opening.