Illustrated manuscript on paper, entitled on upper wrapper “Kakine tehon” [“Samples of Fences”].
21 full-page black & gray brush drawings of styles of fences. 11 folding leaves. 8vo (245 x 166 mm.), orig. wrappers, stitched as issued. From the upper wrapper: “Hori no uchi Ueno shi” [“Mr. Ueno who resides in Hori no uchi”]. [Japan]: late Edo.
There are well over 100 different styles of bamboo fences (takegaki) in Japan, employed for many purposes. Our manuscript illustrates fences constructed from various parts of many kinds of bamboo (take) and the branches of bush clover (hagi) or a mixture of the two. They were primarily used for tea ceremony gardens where bamboo fences became... More