Description [JAPANESE FOLKLORE & YOKAI]
Three works of Japanese folklore, comprising:
河鍋暁斎 Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831-1889). 暁斎百鬼画談 Kyōsai hyakki gadan (Kyosai's pictures of one hundred demons), 1890. Ink and color woodblock prints of illustrations, enclosed in a blue folio. First edition,published posthumously.—還魂紙料 Kankon shiryō (Material on the passed). Second volume only. Sewn bindings in paper. —椿説鬼魅談語 三編下 Chinsetsu Kimidango (Explanations of Chinsetsu demons). Tokyo, 1857. Second volume of the third edition.
Together 3 works in 5 volumes of folded leaves each with paper sewn bindings.
Property from a Prominent Chicago Collection
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