HOKUSAI'S 100 VIEWS OF FUJI AND KAWANABE DOIKU

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
KAWANABE KYŌSAI (1831-1889)
MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY

A full set of the Fugaku hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji) in three volumes, each woodblock-printed illustrated book with a colophon dated Meiji 8 (1875), published by Eirakuya Toshiro (Tohekido), each 22.7cm x 15.7cm; together with a copy of the Kyōsai Donga (Idle Drawings of Kyōsai), signed Kawanabe Dōiku, published in 1881 by Masuyama Naoyoshi, first edition, 12cm x 18.2cm. (4)

Provenance: from the Estate of a Collector, Heath House, Hampshire, and thence by descent. By repute, acquired in Asia at the turn of the 19th century.