Unidentified mid-19th Century Japanese Preparatory drawing or Shita-e/Gako Engravings birds and fish

birds and fish

1 et confestim mane consilium facientes summi sacerdotes cum senioribus et scribis et universo concilio vincientes Iesum duxerunt et tradiderunt Pilato

including the first and last pages and the leaves for the book of Psalms

Bound in traditional contemporary black Morocco Binding and joints firm but with wear to leather spine and joints and with bumped corners

rust around staples)

Unidentified mid-19th Century Japanese Preparatory drawing or Shita-e/Gako Engravings birds and fishUnidentified mid 19th Century Japanese Preparatory drawing or Shita e Gako Anonymous Utagawa school 32 x 23m Drawn in Chinese Ink on thin paper with red seal to bottom of page Clean imaging but creasing to the page and some smudges and marks In this preparatory drawing two actors are shown as Samurai one holding a sword and bow, and the other a fan. The image and artist are unidentified, but the style is consistent with being by one of the popular