Lot n° 475
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- Lot 475
Takuzo YAMANE - Choko Taikan (The Sights of the Yangtse).
Tokyo, Toho Jiron Sha, 1917. Album in-4, Italian style (253 x 370 mm), in a light brown silk binding decorated with a painted decoration in green and brown tones, a boat sailing on the waves, Japanese characters and a seal on the first cover, two white silk cords, in a grey cloth corded folder reproducing the same decoration (case damaged and roughly restored inside).
FIRST EDITION. 9], 136, [1] leaves. The cover was designed by the artist Kohgyo Terazaki. Preface (dated July 10, 1916) and table in Japanese and English. These views of the Yangtse are the result of a 10-year journey to the heart of the Chinese republic. The album of 136 superb collotypes illustrates the course of the Yangtse. Each view is preceded by a caption in Japanese and English. The album opens with the river embankment and foreign concessions in Shanghai and then takes us to Hangzhou and West Lake, Suzhou, Nanjing, Wuhu, Lushan, Wuhan, various other places on the Yangtze, including the Gorges, and parts of southern China. The collection includes six panoramas showing the West Lake (4 parts), Lushan Mountain (5 parts), Wuhan, the view from Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang (6 parts), Changsha, capital of Hunan Province (5 parts), Yolu Mountain near Changsha (2 parts), and a bird's-eye view of Sasi (Shashi) on the Yangtze River (2 parts)
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