Item from the Mokuhankan Flea Market

Akashi - The Tale of Genji

Size: 40.0cm by 30.5cm (15.75 in by 12.01 in) | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ?

Designer: Okada Yoshio

Era: Mid Showa | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: ¥ 60,000$ 490.00£ 370.00€ 445.00 [Item has been sold]

Description: We have here a single print from the well-known set of four designs that the late Okada Yoshio created for the Genji Monogatari. [The full set is included in our Mokuhankan Collection here.]

The print set was created by the Yuyudo Company in the late 1970s. Okada's designs originally appeared in the Shukan Asahi weekly magazine, to accompany a modern adaptation of the Genji story by the noted writer Tanabe Seiko.

This print was trapped in a bad frame for years, and is thus heavily toned. But there is no foxing or mold, and - unusually for this print - the vermillion pigment is still in excellent condition (the frame must have been quite airtight).

There are remnants of tape on the reverse (see photos).

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