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Tokaido Meisho No Uchi - June 2, 2005

Dear friends of Japanese prints

This auction is something special. We offer the first 60 lots from a consignment of 133 prints from the woodblock series "Tokaido - meishi-no-uchi" from 1863. The series was designed by more than a dozen artists and commissioned to commemorate the procession of shogun Iemochi in 1863 from Edo to Kyoto to pay his respect to the emperor.

All sheets are without any major condition problems. Such a nearly complete set is rather rare. The National Diet Library of Japan has 141 prints of the series in their posession. Some of their missing prints are even among our offered lots.

We put some effort in writing an article with background information and a few references that we could find on the internet. Although this is one of the largest series ever published during the Edo period, we could not get a hundred percent clear picture of the precise number and artists in this series. If you have reliable information, please contact us.

This article also includes instructions how you can view and read the information on the Japanese-only web site of the National Diet Library of Japan by using a translation feature provided by Google. It is not complicated. Try it, it works!

You find the article on www.artelino.com/articles/tokaido-meisho-no-uchi.asp

In writing so much about this series, we nearly forgot to mention the auction! You find it as always on www.artelino.com/auction/catalog.asp and it will end next Sunday, June 5 at 8:00 PM local time (CET) = 2:00 PM in New York.

Enjoy the collection, and if you like our site, please bid in our auctions and buy from us.

your artelino team

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