![Item #90932 [Two Matchbook Label Albums][Rinpyō 燐票](https://rarebook.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/90932.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1652473174)
19. [Two matchbook label albums] [Rinpyō 燐票] [C. Late Meiji, early Taisho 1900-1920] Two 15.8 x 11cm orihon folding albums with cloth covered boards and decorative title slips. There are matchbook labels on front and back sides of the folding albums with 3 to 4 matchbook labels, (one book has..... More
You tong wen ku di 1 ji 幼童文章 第一集 [24 vols] Minguo 民國 23-24 [1934-5] Shang wu yin shu guan 商務印書館, publisher Shanghai 上海 24 volumes of children’s books staple-bound approx 18.5 x 13cm published from 1934-5 in China with illustrations and Chinese text throughout. Front wrapper color illustrations..... More
![Item #87358 [Zodiacal Animals Handscroll] [Emaki - Handscroll 絵巻](https://rarebook.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/87358_0.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1526654501)
1800. [Zodiacal Animals Handscroll] [Emaki - Handscroll 絵巻] [C. 1850] [Emaki - Handscroll 絵巻]. A handscroll of zodiacal animals measures 29 x 582 cm. intotal length with 26 cm. blank at the start on heavy paper in a brocade cover. Never finished, it has 10 animals, with..... More
[Zuan - Stencil Design Book]. Kyoto? Shōtoku 正徳 [1711 - 1716] to Meiji Gannen 明治元年 [1868]. 24.7 x 17.7cm volume of design patterns string bound fukuro toji. Hand printed sample stencil sample book assembled by a dyeing house in Kyoto. A total of 507 monochrome designs, from single to multiple..... More
Zuijin Guowen Jiaokeshu 最新国文教科書. circa 1904. Shanghai? [Commercial Press 商務印書館]. 22 x 13.5cm String bound fukuro toji with 59 cho, complete as such. A small Chinese schoolbook from the early 20th century. Chinese text with over 70 charming monochrome wood engravings that illustrate each lesson. Introduction and index in Chinese..... More
1934. [PREWAR ARCHITECTURE] TAKASUGI Mikitaro, editor. JUTAKU KENCHIKU Kensho Sekkei Zuanshu. Tokyo, Kenchiku Gakkai, Showa 9 [1934]. 8vo., printed wrappers. This book of award-winning designs for domestic architecture has forty plus pages of designs and projections. Very good condition. More
1922. Stewart, Basil. SUBJECTS PORTRAYED IN JAPANESE COLOUR PRINTS.... New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1922. Folio, xvi, 382pp. Grey paper covered boards backed in tan cloth, leather title label in gilt. With reproductions of over 270 prints (22 in colour). A very good copy that shows some soiling at..... More
1904. [DESIGN] Shimomura Tamahiro, designer. SEKAI SARASA 2 vols. Kyoto, Unkindo^, 22.3 x 31.3 cm., Meiji 37 [1904]. 2 vols., Tassel-bound in decorated paper covers, fukuro-toji. 27 full page color woodcut plates of cotton chintz designs from around the world. Nicely printed, very good condition. More
1917. MORSE, Edward S. JAPAN DAY BY DAY: 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83. Boston: Mifflin Company, Cambridge: The University Press, 1917. First edition. Two volumes: xiv, [2], 441; [6], 453 pp. Illustrated with a color frontispiece in each volume and throughout with many b&w text illustrations by the author. Large 8vo., grey..... More
1814. [EHON] Sato SUISEKI. SUISEKI GAFU. Bunka 11 [1814]. 25.6 X 18.8 cm. This copy of the first series of Suiseki's gafu of figures is a classic of the Shijo genre, universally praised. [See Mitchell pp 505,6; Hillier Vol.2, pp. 753-6; Holloway 51; Ryerson 379; Brown p.93] This copy is..... More
1924. MURAYAMA Tomoyoshi. MIZUE, No. 217. Tokyo, Taisho 13 [1924]. Wrappers, 8vo. This issue of the important art journal MIZUE is notable for the inclusion of a 5 page article by avant-garde artist and critic, Murayama Tomoyoshi, entitled "KIKAITEKI YOSO NO GEIJUTSU E NO DONYU" ["THE PATH TO A CONSTRUCTIVIST..... More
1933. [CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE - JAPANESE]. KODOMO NO KUNI V. 12, #2. Tokyo, February 1933. 26.0 x 18.7 cm There are 32 color pages on heavy paper with work by such artists as Takei himself, Maeshima Tomo, Kawakami Shiro^, Kumatani Motoichi, and many others. There is also a 20 page flimsy..... More
1871. ADAMS, F. O. [Francis Ottiwell]. THIRD REPORT BY MR. ADAMS ON SILK CULTURE IN JAPAN, DATED AUGUST 10, 1870. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London: Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1871. At the head of t.p. is printed "JAPAN. No. 1 (1871)" and..... More
1911. ADAMS, I. William. YODOGIMA IN FEUDALISTIC JAPAN. New York: The Mikilosch Press, 1911. 302 pp., 12mo., red cloth lettered in gilt, spine in gilt. With a 1" x 1" spot at the top of the spine where the dye and gilt have largely leached from the cloth, else very..... More
1930. (ADVERTISEMENT). KAMAKURA KAIHAN HOTEL. Kamakura, Japan. (Tokyo: Inatsu Co.), [N.D., circa 1930]. A single accordian-folded sheet, whose folded size measures 7 1/2 by 3 1/2 (19.2 x 8.9 cm.), with photo illustrations of the hotel and surrounding attractions; the final panel is a map which shows railway and tram..... More
[ADVERTISING - 20TH CENTURY MATCHBOX COVERS]. [Rinpyō 燐票]. A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1300 MATCHBOX COVERS, LABELS AND ADVERTISING CARDS DEPICTING A VARIETY OF PRODUCTS, BUSINESSES, AND PASTIMES. A collection of carefully preserved matchbox covers, labels and advertising cards tipped-in to 2 commercially manufactured scrapbook albums. The albums are bound in..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 1. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Do^mon..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 6. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 8. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 9. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. The issues..... More
1939. [ADVERTISING ART - JAPAN]. KOKOKKAI. ADVERTISING AND COMMERCIAL ART. Volume 16, number 9. Tokyo, Seibundo, Showa 14 [1939]. Decorated wrappers. 26.3 x 19 cm. 96 pp. Kokokkai was the premier professional journal on the art and science of advertising in Japan at the time of its publication. Ken Domon..... More
[ADVERTISING] SUZUKI Nagai, editor. Shiroto ni mo Kantan ni mo dekiru KAKUSHU KANBAN SOSHOKU NO TSUKURIKATA PRACTICAL METHODS OF BUILDING UP VARIOUS SIGNS AND DISPLAYS. Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha, Showa 13 [1938]. Oblong printed wrappers. 18.8 x 26 pp. 32pp+. Sign design for the amateur. Good condition. More
1881. [AGRICULTURE] Miyazaki Ryujo. Koeki NOKO ZENSHO 5 vols. Tokyo, n.d.[1881]. Bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Original covers and title labels. 22.7 x 15.5 cm. An extensive guide to the practice of agriculture in the early modern era of Meiji Japan. Largely text, but illustrated throughout in woodcut, some of which in..... More
1964. [AINU] HATTORI Shiro, editor. AINUGO HO^GEN JITEN. Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten, 1964. Large 8vo., dark green cloth, 556+ pp. Important dialect dictionary of the Ainu language. Written in Japanese. About in publisher's slipcase. More
1786. Miyako Meisho Zue 都名所圖會 (都名所図会) 5 of 6 vols Akisato Ritō 秋里籬島, author & Takehara Shunchōsai 竹原信繁 (竹原朝斎), artist Yoshinoya Ihachi 吉野家為八, publisher Kyōto 1786 [Temmei 6] Kyōto, Yoshinoya Ihachi 吉野家為八, publisher. A 6 volume title, lacking volume 5, thus incomplete. 27.2 x 18.7 cm. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji..... More