Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

The Old Town Of Matsue [LIMITED EDITION]

Fukuhara, Shinzo (photographs); Higashine Tokuo (ed.)

Tokyo: Nihon Shashinkai (Japan Photographic Society), 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 1/500 (Heiting, page 63). Quarto. 10 leaves, incl. 5 half-titles; 30 (1) plates. Original tan paper-covered boards with black lettering on brown label of cover, black lettering on spine, housed in screen printed slipcase with blue lettering on cover, both protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece photograph with descriptive text. The painterly quality of Fukuhara's photographs is said to be influenced by his time in Paris, where he settled in 1913 after travels in England and Germany. It was here where he viewed exhibitions of postimpressionist, particularly Seurat, taking photographs that became later the collection of "Paris and the Seine."

Collection of thirty b/w photographs of the old town of Matsue, the oldest as well as an important castle town at the coast of the Japan Sea near the Tsushima channel, state of Isumo, San-in district, the west of Japan; today capital city of the Shimane Prefecture. The photographs are separated into five groups, showing six images each of the Arisawa Villa, the Town (Matsue), the House of Lafcadio Hearn, the Lakeside, and the Tenrin-Ji Temple. Text in Japanese and English. Slipcase with light wear along edges, light chipping. Boards of book with some foxing, one small stain on front free endpaper. Very good condition. Item #49680

Price: $2,000.00