Taisho Period Japanese Manuscript with 58 Sumi Ink Landscapes hustler toy co with some surface rusting

with some surface rusting

This wonderful small bust is signed but undated

Black ink on wove paper mounted to a heavier weight brown backing sheet

and silver clasp with blue stones

Taisho Period Japanese Manuscript with 58 Sumi Ink Landscapes hustler toy co with some surface rustingOf course I wish I could read Japanese to know what is written on the right hand page of each spread in this lovely early 20th century manuscript notebook, but the sumi ink drawings on the left of the spread (58 total by my count) more than stand on their own. Each drawing painting is of a landscape view framed by an oval border, with each seeming like a portrait of a specific place at a specific moment sometimes with rain streaming down, sometimes