222 - Japan - NISHIKAWA SUKENOBU & KUROKAWA (Mamichi), publishers. Nihon f?zoku zue [A Survey of Japanese Customs]. Fourth installment (???). Tokyo, Nihon F?zoku Zue Kank?kai, 1914 (Taish? era, year 3).

Japan - NISHIKAWA SUKENOBU & KUROKAWA (Mamichi), publishers. Nihon f?zoku zue [A Survey of Japanese Customs]. Fourth installment (???). Tokyo, Nihon F?zoku Zue Kank?kai, 1914 (Taish? era, year 3). Large 8vo, soft Japanese paperback, color-illustrated cover with printed title labels, housed in a blue cloth slipcase with a calligraphic title label, fastened with ties. (Some internal wear to the slipcase.) A beautiful Japanese publication featuring woodblock reproductions of collections of old prints and drawings depicting Japanese customs and costumes. This fourth installment, edited by Kurokawa Mamichi, brings together three illustrated works: "Ehon Tokiwa-gusa" and "Ehon Jochō fuzoku tsuya-kagami," by Nishikawa Sukenobu, as well as "Ehon Kagami hyakushu," by Nishikawa Suketada (Sukei). Numerous woodblock prints, depicting in particular women in traditional dress, scenes of daily life, interiors, landscapes, and warriors. This publication is part of a series of twelve volumes published in 1914–1915. Colophon dated September 5, 1914. Endpaper bearing a handwritten Japanese dedication dated May 1925, with the Western-style signature “U. Uchiyama.”