[EHON] Yosa BUSON ????, author; Matsumura GOSHUN???? [GEKKEI ?? ], artist — Shin Hanatsumi????

1797. [EHON] Yosa BUSON ????, author; Matsumura GOSHUN???? [GEKKEI ?? ], artist. SHIN HANATSUMI????. Published In Osaka, c. 1798. 25.7 x 18.4 cm. One volume, complete. Here, Goshun, one of Buson's most illustrious students, has illustrated a collection of wonderful haikai and diary notes by Buson from a humorous work he brushed in the 1780s, here posthumously block-carved in Buson's distinctive style, with a group of literati images by Goshun which are some of the most praised of the genre. Goshun was a master of both literati and Maruyama style, derived from his close relationship with Okyo????and Buson. Always in demand as a masterpiece of the genre, very few copies ever come to market. With vintage but replaced covers, a brushed titles label, a tiny bit of worming and very good impressions. A species of the lightly colored version quite like those at the British Museum and UCLA. With the same two page ad laid onto the inner back cover as those copies, so only the first ad page can be read I this one. Reference to the Union Catalogue seems to indicate that this Kansei edition was the first to be cut and printed. Although UCLA claims this version to be a later printing, I see no earlier version listed anywhere, though the postscript by Goshun is dated during Temmei. The UCLA copy had passed through the hands of Sorimachi Shigeo, the greatest bookseller of the Showa era, so perhaps he knew of an earlier printed version.. But there is no sign of it today. Enclosed in a custom clasped chitsu case. .