{"product_id":"nikuhitsu-manga-kenkoku-2500-nenshi-zue-illustrated-history-2500th-7poo24ns","title":"Nikuhitsu manga kenkoku 2500-nenshi zue [Illustrated History of the 2500th Anniversary of the Founding of Japan in original cartoons].","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautifully humorous and irreverent look at 2500 years of Japanese history by over two dozen members of the Central Art Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was a collective that included some of the most outstanding cartoonists of the first half of the 20th century, incl. Kitazawa Rakuten (aka. the father of Modern Manga), Mizushima Niou, Ikebe Hitoshi, Okamoto Ippei, Miyao Shigeo, and Tanaka Hisara. Opening with the dance of the foundation myth involving the gods Izanagi and Izanami creating the Japanese islands and closing with the ritual suicide of members of the White Tiger Unit (Byakkotai) on Iimori Hill during the Boshin War (1868-69), this is a fascinating catalogue of the characters and events that shaped Japanese history prior to the Meiji Restoration: Nintoku Tenno, Kobo Taishi, Ono no Tofu, Murasaki Shikibu, Saigyo Hoshi, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Matsuo Basho are interspersed with images of Todaiji, Byodo-in, Ginkakuji, arrival of Perry’s Black ships, etc. Each plate is hand-painted, making every set slightly different in its brushwork. There is no information in the book about the number of copies that were produced, but estimates range from between 100-200 copies. Several variant issues of this work exist: Some are bound in two brocade covered albums with 100plates, some are in one album with 50plates, the present is the issue with 50 loose plates preserved in a plain cardboard folder. It is a reduced version, but all the plates stated in the table of contents are present. It would appear that the current version may have been distributed amongst book-dealers or agents in order to obtain orders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRare. Only one set in OCLC. (National Library of Australia).\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833653702813,"sku":"263690","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/263690_05.jpg?v=1787571619","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/nikuhitsu-manga-kenkoku-2500-nenshi-zue-illustrated-history-2500th-7poo24ns","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}