Lithographs, Kanto Earthquake, 1923

(lot of 9) Group of Japanese oversize lithographs, series 'Tokyo daijishin gaho' (=Pictorial of the Great Tokyo Earthquake), dated Taisho 12.10 (October 1923), depicting various scenes from the Great Kanto earthquake of September 1, 1923, including miraculous visions of Kannon, panicking circus animals at Asakusa, people fleeing the ensuing fire-storm and fires that engulfed the houses, parks, temples and official buildings of Tokyo, each with long explanatory text on the right margin, the left with date and publisher notation of Urano Ginjiro (Urashima-do), 15.5''h x 21.75''w