1951. [COMMERCIAL DESIGN] ONCHI Kôshiro, SUGIURA Hisui, et al. SHÔGYÔ DESAIN ZENSHÛ 2 PR-hen. Tôkyô, 1951. 26.2 x 18.5 cm. Bound western-style in cloth, with original slipcase. Onchi, Hisui, Yamana Ayao, Wada Sanzô and many others, a virtual who's who of art and design in mid-century, were involved either as..... More
1951. [COMMERCIAL DESIGN] ONCHI Kôshiro, SUGIURA Hisui, et al. SHÔGYÔ DESAIN ZENSHÛ 3 Shôhin-hen. Tôkyô, 1951. 26.2 x 18.5 cm. Bound western-style in cloth, with original slipcase. Onchi, Hisui, Yamana Ayao, Wada Sanzô and many others, a virtual who's who of art and design in mid-century, were involved either as..... More
[DESIGN]. DESIGN DOCUMENTS. Drawings and Design Documentation for the Applied Arts 1840-1940. [Exhibition catalogue]. London: Yu-Chee Chong Fine Art, [n.d.]. Oblong 8vo., printed wrappers, illustrated in color and black & white. Touch of scuffing to wrappers, else fine. More
1901. SEKKA Kamisaka. [DESIGN BOOK] Kamisaka SEKKA [Yoshitaka]. SHIKISHI. Kyoto: Tanaka jihei, Meiji 34 [1901]. 2 folios, each 31.2 x 21.5 cm. Volume one has 2 color prints and 30 b+w sumi prints, volume two has 30 b+w sumi prints. An interesting design book of subtlety. The covers are quite..... More
1935. SEIHÔ Takeuchi. [PRINT ALBUM] Takeuchi SEIHÔ. SEIHÔ IPPINSHÛ. Kyoto & Tokyo, Unsodo, Showa 12 - 14 [1937 - 9]. 53.2 cm x 42.7 cm. The first series, complete with all 31 prints which were issued in two formats: (1) ten paper fascicules and also (2) tassel-bound by the publisher..... More
1935. [DESIGN BOOK] Takeuchi SEIHÔ. SEIHÔ IPPINSHÛ. Kyoto & Tokyo, Unsodo, Meiji 12 - 13 [1935 - 6]. The first series, complete with 31 prints in 10 portfolios of SEIHO'S MASTERWORKS. In EHON: THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK IN JAPAN, Roger Keyes' catalogue to the 2007 NYPL exhibition of the..... More
1934. [DESIGN BOOK] Yoshida Gyokujô, compiler. TANSAI GAFU. Kyoto, Happpôdô, Shôwa 9 [1934]. 2 vols., complete. Tall folios, 36.7 x 25.4 cm, orihon folded album in woodcut printed paper over board covers with printed paper title labels. There are 25 total full page color woodblock prints. Interesting style, mixing flat..... More
1937. [DESIGN MAGAZINE]. TEIKOKU KÔGEI Vol.11, #12. Tokyo, Showa 12 [1937]. 25.7 x 19 cm. Decorated wrappers. Interesting articles on contenporary art and design.... furniture, fashion, kitchenware, graphics, etc., etc. The dominant sensibility is Deco throughout. Illustrated with halftone photo plates. Very good. More
1915. [DESIGN MAGAZINE] Fukada Zuan Kenkyûsho. GENDAI NO ZUAN; GENDAI NO ZUAN KÔGEI; ZUAN TO KÔGEI. Tokyo, Taisho 4 [1915] to Taisho 13 [1924]. 23 issues of this important periodical on design in Japan. The dominant aesthetic is a Japanese version of Art Deco. Each issue has many illustrations, several..... More
[DESIGN]. SAIKÔKYÛ MIRAAKOOTO-KAMI TOPPAN-ZURI OODAMATCHI MIHONCHO NP, ND [Japan, 1960s?]. 16.3 X 24.5 cm. Leatheroid covers, 23 pages of 5.5 x 8 cm designs for matchbox covers, done in a "mirrorcoat" process of relief printing. One sample clipped for color matching. The back covers is loosening. Overall, a good copy..... More
1890. [DESIGN] SHIN ZUAN, #11-20, 10 volumes. Kyoto, Shinzuankai. Nakayasu Shinsaburô, Meiji 25-7 [1890-2]. 24.4 x 16.5 cm. Cord- bound Japanese-style (fukuro toji). Printed paper covers, each with at least 12 single page color woodcuts after designs by Kamisaka Sekka, Kaishi [Kaigai] Tennen and others. These are volumes eleven through..... More
1919. [DESIGN] Sugiura HISUI. HISUI ZUAN-SHÛ. Tokyo, Bun'endo. Taisho 8 [1919], the sixth printing. Folder of 50 numbered sheets of 187 designs in various media and styles (woodcut, lithograph and offset). A wonderful epitome of Taisho-era "chic", produced by Bun'endo, perhaps the finest publisher of the time using all the..... More
1908. [DESIGN] ASAI Chu. MOKUGO ZUAN SHU. Kyoto: Unsodo, Meiji 41 [1908]. Printed paper covers over boards, tassel bound. This tall 4to sized volume (36.5 x 25 cm) is a wonderful deluxe compendium of Asai's design work. Asai is famous as one of the most important Japanese Western-style oil painters..... More
1937. [DESIGN] Azuma Dôjin. Koutashirabe AZUMA KOROMO. Unsôdô, Kyôto & Tôkyô, Shôwa 12 [1937]. A large folding album (34.0 x 24.8 cm), 10 pages (15 designs) of superbly printed color woodblock images by the "Companions from the East" The margins and facing pages have browning and foxing. This, the "spring"..... More
1902. [DESIGN] Fujii Rindô. SHOKUMON ZUKAN 1-4. Kyôto, Yamada Unsôdô, Meiji 35 [1902]. Four volumes, complete, each volume with printed title, string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. 24.2 x 16.4 cm. Illustrated throughout with lightly colored woodblock prints of traditional design motifs. The covers are worn, some pages split but present. More
1933. [DESIGN] FUJII Tatsukichi, designer. SÔSAKU SENSHOKU ZUANSHÛ. [A Collection of Designs for Dyework] Tokyo & Osaka: Bungado, Showa 8 [1933]. Large portfolio, 41 x 31 cm., decorative cloth covered clasped chitsu case with a printed decorative label, all enclosed in the publisher's folding cardboard outer box. A 4 page..... More
1908. [DESIGN] Furuya KÔRIN. KÔGEI NO BI. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 41 [1908]. 3 vols. Folding orihon albums, 32 X 22.5 cm, in paper over boards with integral printed title labels. The first printing of this set, as here, is very scarce and quite delightful - the 75 large double page..... More
19. [DESIGN] Furuya KÔRIN. SEIKA. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 36 [1903]. Tall folio folding album, 36.8 X 24.9 cm, Double-page table of contents and final colophon page. The latter indicates this is a "saihan", a reprint done a month after the first printing. There are 12 large double-page designs in color..... More
1905. [DESIGN] FURUYA KORIN. MATSU ZUKUSHI. Kyoto: Unsodo, Meiji 38 [1905]. Oblong album, 18.3 x 24.9 cm, one page introduction and final colophon page, along with 50 designs on twenty-five pages of color woodcut designs on a pine-tree theme by Furuya Korin, one of the most important of Unsodo's early..... More
1903. [DESIGN] Gotô Ryûkô. HANA NO NISHIKI #3. Kyoto: Unkindo, Meiji 36 [1903]. A single woodblock-printed sheet, approx. 36 X 50 cm., folded into printed covers, 25.2 x 17.8 cm. Unkindo, a short-lived but brilliant publisher, later merged into the Unsodo concern. A bit browned and edgeworn, it is number..... More
1910. [DESIGN] Hagino Issui, designer. ZUAN HYAKUDAI. 3 Vols. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 43 [1910] An orihon in 3 volumes, (27 X 19 cm) with woodblock printed covers, all in a later fitted clasped cloth chitsu case. Unsodo outdid itself in this early design effort. Dozens of double page horizontal designs..... More
1938. [DESIGN] HAPPÔDÔ, publisher/printer. KOKUGA ÔGI. Kyôto, Happôdô, N.D. [other sources indicate a date of 1938] Very large oblong brocade porfolio, 36.5 x 59.0 cm. Contains an undated Happôdô colophon and 50 design prints (49 in color and one as a textual calligraphic introduction to the work) A source indicates..... More
1894. [DESIGN] HARUNA Shigeharu, editor. Kôgei Ôyô ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues. No.'s 20-26, Tôkyô, Meiji 26-27 [1893-4]. 24.5 x 16.6 cm. Stab-bound wrapper's in woodblock printed paper covers. Haruna Shigeharu (1847-1913) was a pottery painter born into the upper classes in Ishikawa prefecture, here using his artistic and design skills..... More
1937. [DESIGN] HIRABARA [Norifumi?], editor. IRO TO KATACHI 23 (of 25) volumes. Tokyo: Iro to Katachi-sha, Showa 12 - Showa 14 [1937-39]. Volume nos. 2-18, 20-25. Small pamphlet-sized wrappered periodicals, 19 x 13 cm., ranging in size from some 22 pages to 48 pages apiece. As the title "COLOR AND..... More
1933. [DESIGN] Hisatomi Jun; Yoshida Tamashiro, designes. SHINKÔ KOSODE BURI 1, 2, 3, 5. Kyôto, Happôdô, Shôwa 8 [1933] 36.1 x 26.1 cm. Each volume of the four (of five) contains 10 lovely color-printed woodblock design in a kimono sleeve format. A wonderful collection of these "shinkô" "modern" designs. The..... More