Chō senshu (A Thousand Kinds of Butterflies), Volume 2

Artist: Kamisaka Sekka, Japanese, 1866–1942
Publisher: Yamada Naosaburō, Japanese, 1866–1932
Publisher: Yamada Unsōdō, Kyoto, Japan
Period: Meiji period, 1868–1912
Date: 1904
Material: Woodblock-printed album; ink and color on paper
published in: Kyoto, Kyoto urban prefecture, Japan, Asia
Classification: Books & manuscripts
Collection: Asian Art
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: cover: 9 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. (25.1 x 18.4 cm)
image: 9 7/8 x 14 9/16 in. (25.1 x 37 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Shop Fund
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 124:1992.2

- 1992
Leonard B. Schlosser (1925–1991), New York, NY [1]

1992 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased at auction, Sotheby's New York, Fine Japanese Prints and Books, Including the Leonard B. Schlosser Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, Sale 6327, June 4, 1992 (New York: Sotheby's, 1992), lot no. 296 [2]

Notes:
[1] Leonard B. Schlosser is listed as the owner of this object; see Sotheby's New York, Fine Japanese Prints and Books, Including the Leonard B. Schlosser Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, Sale 6327, June 4, 1992 (New York: Sotheby's, 1992), lot no. 296.

[2] See note [1]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 25, 1992.

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