80/5119 Album with 19 painted and calligraphed tanzaku. Watercolour and brush and ink on paper/ board, all w. signature and/ or seal of (various) artists, some w. gold edging or background, 6-7,5x36 cm., some w. annotations (transcription or information about the artist) on verso, ±1900-2000 (mostly 1930-1960), loosely inserted in leporello-bound album w. silk cl. over boards and pasted on title.

- Some of the tanzaku (sl.) foxed; some w. sl. dam. corners.

= Tanzaku refers to long, vertical strips of paper on which poems are written. These poems (or paintings) can be displayed on so-called tanzaku-kake (tanzaku-holder or -stand). Tanzaku are also often used during the festival of Tanabata to write wishes on, sometimes in the form of poetry, to be hung on bamboo branches. The tanzaku in this album show a variety of subjects, such as animals, people or natural scenes.