Japanese album titled Komon chō (Collection of small patterns). One volume, complete. With 90 numbered textile samples with small decorative designs (komon) printed by stencil (katagami) on paper, mounted on 45 pages, ca. 1870-1890. Size 16x21 cm For a discussion on this kind of book see the chapter by Nagasaki Iwao, Designs for a Thousand Ages: Printed Pattern Books and Kosode in Gluckman & Takeda, When Art Became Fashion Kosode in Edo-Period Japan. New York 1992, p.111-112.