Description: Hardcover 26.5 x 19 cm, grey cloth, red lettering in kanji over black stripe to front, lettering to spine, tan endpapers, pictorial slipcase 27 x 19.5 cm; pp.: [1-6] 7-95 [96], pasted frontispiece and 79 colour illustrations with captions, within a collation. Series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №8.

ISBN: 9780870110986; 0870110985.

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Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | “THE DECADENTS” | by Jūzō Suzuki and Isaburō Oka | translation by John Bester | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A. || (Vertical text in kanji to the right, between rules).

Artists: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese [歌川 国貞], 1786 – 1865); Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese [歌川 国芳], 1798 – 1861); Keisai Eisen [Japanese [渓斎 英泉], 1790 – 1848).

Contributors:

Jūzō Suzuki [鈴木重三] (Japanese, 1919 – 2010) – author.

Isaburō Oka [岡畏三郎] (Japanese, 1914 –2010) – author.

John Bester (British, 1927 – 2010) – translator

Kunisada’s fan print in this collection (exactly the same copy) [SVJP-0380.2022]: