Rare Prints Gallery: Description of Manabu Miyoshi's Iris Laevigata Fisch

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Description of Manabu Miyoshi's Iris Laevigata Fisch

These beautiful, delicately colored iris plates are from Manabu Miyoshi's rare work entitled Iris Laevigata Fisch. It was published by Geiso-Do in Kyoto in 1921. The work contained 105 plates of irises on multi-layed chain-linked paper. Each iris plate measures ~ 8 1/2" by 12" and features original hand-coloring.