A SET OF SEVENTEEN BOOKS (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
Imperial Inscription on the Paintings of Growing Cotton
31.5 x 30 cm. (12 ³⁄₈ x 11 ³⁄₄ in.)
With colophon and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Guang Cang Gu Shi Lu
34.4 x 23.6 cm. (13 ¹⁄₂ x 9 ¹⁄₄ in.)
With colophon and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Zheng Zuo Wei Tie
41 x 25.8 cm. (16 ¹⁄₈ x 10 ¹⁄₈ in.)

Sheng Jiao Xu
29.5 x 27 cm. (11 ⁵⁄₈ x 10 ⁵⁄₈ in.)

Si Bu Cong Kan
20 x 13.5 cm. (7 ⁷⁄₈ x 5 ³⁄₈ in.)
With colophon and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Poems by Yu Xi Sheng
20 x 13.3 cm. (7 ⁷⁄₈ x 5 ¹⁄₄ in.)
With inscription, signature and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Meng Zi
20.3 x 13.5 cm. (8 x 5 ³⁄₈ in.)
With inscription, signature and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Shi Ye Ye Wen
22 x 15 cm. (8 ⁵⁄₈ x 5 ⁷⁄₈ in.)

Zhong Zhou Ji (Poems)
20 x 13.3 cm. (7 ⁷⁄₈ x 5 ¹⁄₄ in.)
With painting, inscription, signature and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Siku Quanshu
31.5 x 20 cm. (12 ³⁄₈ x 7 ⁷⁄₈ in.)

Cai Tang Ji (by Lu Peifen)
17.3 x 10.3 cm. (6 ³⁄₄ x 4 in.)
With colophon and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Li Bu Yun
27.5 x 21 cm. (10 ⁷⁄₈ x 8 ¹⁄₄ in.)

Shu Bo Yong Tan(by Dong Kang)
25 x 14.9 cm. (9 ⁷⁄₈ x 5 ⁷⁄₈ in.)
With collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Jiu Min Sui Bi
26 x 15 cm. (10 ¹⁄₄ x 5 ⁷⁄₈ in.)
With colophon and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Lan Ting Xu
31 x 18 cm. (12 ¹⁄₄ x 7 ¹⁄₈ in.)

Tang Dyansty Collected
19.4 x 12.5 cm. (7 ⁵⁄₈ x 4 ⁷⁄₈ in.)
With a letter, and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Bao Yun
42 x 23 cm. (16 ¹⁄₂ x 9 in.)
With colophon and collector’s seals of Tokutomi Sohō (1863-1957)

Mr Tokutomi Sohō (1863 - 1957) was a famous journalist, who was very active between the Meiji and Showa periods. At the age of 28, he founded "Kokumin (People's) Newspaper" and worked as a chief editor and managing director for many years. As a historian he was extremely famous known especially for his The Modern Japanese History volume 1-100.

Mr Tokutomi deeply appreciated Chinese culture, as he was acquainted with Tang dynasty Poem Selection, and he was highly respected by policy-makers, business leaders and Chinese poem specialist Shinpei Goto (1857-1929).

He was able to form a major collection of important Chinese paintings with a help from his great circle of friends, such as the Chinese seal maker Senro Kawai (1871-1945), historian Konan Naito (1866-1934) and graduates from University of Toa Doubunshoin.