Lot 55: YAMAKAWA SHUHO (1898-1944)

A complete set with presentation folders, in its original cloth-covered box, of the series Kindai reijin gafu [An album of contemporary beauties] published by Nishigetsu Shoin of Osaka in 1936, each sheet signed Shuho with seal Jindo, very good impression, colour and condition The set consists of: By Candlelight Clear Eyes Japanese Girl in a Port City Early Spring Dai-oban : each sheet approximately 161/2 x 113/4 in. (42 x 30 cm.) (4) NOTES Another impression of By Candlelight is illustrated in Kendall H. Brown, Light in Darkness: Women in Japanese Prints of Early Showa (University of Southern California, 1996), p.10.