a fine Japanese portfolio, Zuan dobutsu senshu (Collection of animal designs), complete with 30 loose plates of decorative designs (zuan) mostly of animals figures but also of various subjects of western inspiration still in a kind of fin du siècle mode. Printed in color litography. a very interesting example of Japanese Art Deco style. Complete with a plate of introduction, an index and a plate of frontispiece. Compiled by Hara Mitsuo (active in Taisho period). Size 25,5x19 cm. Original case with title slip and colophon dated Taisho 11 (1923), some occasional foxing but in general very good conditions. Another example is illustrated in the catalog from the Sezon Museum of Art. Japanese Aesthetics and Sense of Space ii. Modern Taste: Ornament and Eroticism 1900-1945.Tokyo 1992, no. 321