Takehisa Yumeji: Shamisen gusa 三味線草 (Shamisen Leaves) - British Museum

Artist: Takehisa Yumeji

Title: Shamisen gusa 三味線草 (Shamisen Leaves)

Date: 1915

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Source: British Museum
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Illustrated book. Six small-scale colour woodblock-prints bound into one volume. Illustrations after Yumeji's paintings or sketches in line process, collotype and halftone; of young geishas and other professional female players of the 'syamisen'. With his selection of 'ko-uta' poems. Sealed, signed and dated.

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