TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-92) OGATA GEKKO (1859-1920) MIZUNO TOSHIKATA (1866-1908) MIGITA TOSHIHIDE (1863-1925) AND OTHERS MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY A Japanese album of woodblock prints, the cover with a paper slip reading Bijutsu Azuma nishiki-e (Fine Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures), containing: 1- Ogata Gekko (1859-1920), a triptych entitled Go-Daigo Tennō (Emperor Go-Daigo Dreams of Ghosts in his Palace in Kasagiyama), signed Gekko and with a red seal, published in 1898; 2- Unidentified artist, a triptych depicting a handscroll in trompe l'oeil, with armour-clad samurai looking at other figures in the distance, the golden phoenix of Kinkaku-Ji Temple in Kyoto visible beyond, inscribed on the right; 3- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-92), a triptych entitled Fujiwara Yasumasa gekka roteki zu (Fujiwara Yasumasa plays the flute by moonlight), signed Oju Taiso Yoshitoshi sha, sealed Taiso and Yoshitoshi, published by Akiyama Buemon on 12 February 1883, oban tate-e; 4- Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908), a triptych entitled 'Kusunoki Masakage escaping from his enemy with his mother', signed and sealed on the right sheet, published by Akiyama Buemon in 1891; 5- Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908), the central and right panel from a triptych entitled 'Honda Tadakatsu's Victory at Mount Komaki', published in 1891; 6- Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908), the left panel from a triptych entitled Kato Kiyomasa taiseki o tenjite Orankai no kenjo o uchi-yabureru zu -part (B y rolling boulders Kato Kiyomasa destroys the strong fortress of the Uriankhai), published by Akiyama Buemon in 1895; 7- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-92), a triptych depicting The Fourth Shogun Ietsuna Visiting the Family Mausoleum at Nikko, f rom the series Tokugawa chiseki nenkan kiji (Annals of the Tokugawa Administration), published in 1875; 8- Unidentified artist, a triptych depicting two armour-clad samurai resting under trees, with a shrine in the distance; 9- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-92), a triptych entitled Azuma meisho sumidagawa umewaka no furugoto (The Ancient Incident of Umewaka and the Child Seller beside the Sumida River), from the series Sumidagawa-Umewaka no koji (Famous Places in the East), signed Taiso Yoshitoshi and sealed Yoshitoshi, p ublished by Akiyama Buemon in 1886; 10- Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908), a triptych entitled 'Saburo Ise meets Prince Ushiwakamaru', signed and sealed, 1893; 11- Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908), a triptych entitled Sasaki Moritsuna Bizen no kuni Fujito no watari ni Heigun o osowanto gyojin ni mizu no senshin o tou zu ( Sasaki Moritsuna asking a fisherman to reveal the shallows where his troops can cross and attack the Taira Forces at Fujito in Bizen Province), signed and sealed, published in 1884; 12- Migita Toshihide (1863-1925), a triptych entitled Horikawa gosho yashū no zu (Night Attack on the Horikawa Palace), published in 1887-97; 13- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-92), a triptych entitled ' Okuko Hikozaemon Protects the Tokugawa Shōgun from the Spear of Goro Matabei Mototsugu', from the series Osaka Gunki no Uchi (The Siege of Osaka), signed Ōju Taiso Yoshitoshi, published by Akiyama in 1884; Some prints embellished with metallic pigments, gofun and embossing; each page 35.1cm x 23.7cm, the four sides of the spine covered in silver pigments. Provenance: a private English collection, Heath House, Hampshire. The same collection includes a Louis XVI bureau plat which was originally the working desk of the French Emperor Napoleon III.