Identification title(s): sketch tour by ten artists. Junin shasei ryoko (title on object). Object type: book object number: rp-p-2005-607. Description: book with text and illustrations by ten artists; hard leather cover with title in gold on front and spine; on the back, image of an island in the sea; cover and endpaper with caricatures of the ten artists; title page with image of man with sickle; 1-3, introduction; 1-8, table of contents; 85 illustrations in various techniques, one per sheet, with scenes on and around the seto inland sea and the island of shodo; 1-68, text by the artists; one page, colophon. In original cassette with image of a woman and child walking on the beach. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: nakamura fusetsu (mentioned on object), printmaker: oshita tojiro (mentioned on object), printmaker: yoshida hiroshi (mentioned on object), printmaker: ishii hakutei (mentioned on object), publisher: kobunsha (mentioned on object). Place of manufacture: printmaker: japan, printmaker: japan, printmaker: japan, printmaker: japan, publisher: tokyo. Dating: feb-1911. Physical characteristics: letterpress; miscellaneous; lithograph; color woodcut. Material: paper technique: letterpress / color woodcut / lithography (technique). Dimensions: cover: h 194 mm × w 129 mm. Credit line: purchase with support from the f. G. Waller fund, the mondriaan foundation, the prince bernhard cultural fund and the vsb fund. Acquisition: purchase 2005. Date: February 1911.
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