Lot 205

A collection of twelve small Japanese prints depicting 'He-gassen' (The Fart Battle) with officials in combat in interiors, possibly by Kyosai -- each 4in.x 5¼in., paper wrapper; a double sided album containing twenty-four prints by Watanabe Seitei (Shotei) and other artists variously depicting figures at leisure, birds, animals and flowers; another double sided album by Ikkei with thirty-six prints of scenes around Edo; three further albums; and a large print divided into three sections with a procession of figures travelling through a river landscape -- 23in.x 28½in. (7)