Book 1897200817
The Hanami
(Flower-Picnic)

Covers

Paste on Title Label

25 Color Collotype Plates

Condition. The book is in Good+ condition. The cloth on the covers is age soiled with chips and significat fraying of the cloth, particularily on the top and bottom edges. The corners are bumped and chipped. The spine covering is solid but eroded at the head and foot. The paste on title lable is soiled and peeling up at the upper right corner. The hinges are unbroken although the front hinge is weak. The bottom string tie is missing the tassle. Both ties are solid. Internally the plates are in Very Good condition. All tissue gurards are present. The plates have light age toning. One plate has a small areas of staining/foxing.

Ogawa, K. (Kazumasa)
Takashima, A.B.

The Hanami (Flower - Picnic) Described by S. Takashima, A.B., Reproduced and Published by K. Ogawa, F.R.P.S., Tokyo, Tokyo, K. Ogawa, 1897 (Meiji 30), distributed by Kelly & Walsh, Yokohama, large 4to (11 3/4 x 15 in - 30 x 38 cm), decorative cloth covered boards and spine, gilt edges, silk paste on title label, string tied (2), gold speckled and decorated inside covers (front and back) and facing page, one page of "Explanatory Notes," 25 tissue guard protected color collotype plates. All plates, except one (the flower plate), have a descriptive title in English at the bottom of the image. The flower collotype plate is a multi-pass color collotype plate as those found at the front of the Brinkley books. The others are lightly colored collotype plates.

I have examined this book with the same plates but in a different sequence. That book book is recorded here.

Title Page

Explanatory Notes

The present volume forms another addition to a series of photographs, illustrating different phases of Japanese life, which we have already published. The select views of the three well-known flower resorts in and near the capital, i.e. Uyeno, Mukojima and Koganei, herein contained are faithful representations of the Hanami (Flower-view). It is the Sakura, or cherry that carries away the hearts of little ones, young maidens, and some grown-up children in this country who take it seriously amiss not to try a picnic, when nature adorns the trees with roscate blossoms. With all its prosaic features, the Hanami in none the less an interesting and popular institution in Japan, and after once enjoying it the scene will long linger in the memory of the participant.

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All 25 Plates in This Book

Plates  1-14   Flower Collotype & Views in Uyeno Park, Tokyo
Plates 15-22   Views in Mukojima
Plates 23-25   Views in Koganei - last plate is a multi-pass
	         color collotype of cherry blossoms