19. [BIRD AND FLOWER]. TAISEI KACHOU GAFU. 29.3 X 23.9 cm. Beautifully bound as an orihon folding album into the original brocade covers with title label... This WESTERN BIRD AND FLOWER ALBUM has 12 lovely full color woodblock prints of naturalistically rendered birds in nature. Wonderfully well printed.... We have..... More
1735. Tachibana MORIKUNI, artist. Wakan Shinzu FUSO GAFU 5 volumes. 26.2 x 18.5 cm. Edo, Kyoto and Osaka. Kyoho 20 [1735]. Morikuni was a remarkably adept illustrator and this set includes many wonderful works depicting scenes from East Asian history, both legendary and historical. Often double page, they have a...... More
1847. [MEISHOKI] Akatsuki KANENARI; Urakawa KOUSA KONPIRA SANKEI MEISHO ZUE. 6 vols. 25.4 x 18.1 cm. The colophon is dated Kouka 4 [1847]. This lovely meishoki was composed by Akenari, a painter and illustrator of considerable reputation, as was Urakawa Kosa. The Konpira shrine complex on the island of Shikoku..... More
1797. [EHON] Yosa BUSON 与謝蕪村, author; Matsumura GOSHUN松村呉春 [GEKKEI 月渓 ], artist. SHIN HANATSUMI新花摘み. Published In Osaka, c. 1798. 25.7 x 18.4 cm. One volume, complete. Here, Goshun, one of Buson's most illustrious students, has illustrated a collection of wonderful haikai and diary notes by Buson from a humorous work..... More
1806. [EHON] Yamaguchi SOKEN. SOKEN GAFU Sôka no Bu. 3 volumes, complete. Medium grey paper covers with original printed title labels. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. 26.2 x 19.0 cm. Bunka 3 [1806] Illustrated in b+w and grey woodcut throughout. This is perhaps Sôken's most successful ehon - illustrating a series of..... More
1909. [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist. MOMOYOGUSA. Kyoto: Unsodo, Meiji 42 [1909]. Volume one of three. 30.1 X 22.5 cm. Most consider it the finest Japanese design book of all time, this exquisite suite of double-page color-printed woodblocks is printed and overprinted using opaque and metallic inks to produce a sumptuous..... More
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1928. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 7 #9 August 1928.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1936. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 15 #13 November 1936.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1935. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 14 #7 June 1935.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1928. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 7 #3 March 1928.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1928. [Periodical]. Kodomo no Kuni [Land of Children] Vol. 7 #1 January 1928.. Perhaps the most beautifully illustrated children's magazine of preWar Japan, KODOMO NO KUNI was edited by artists and writers and displayed a wonderful spirit. As it happpened, Takei Takeo and others running the magazine made sure to..... More
1902. Furuya Ko^rin, editor. SHINBIJUTSUKAI 7 volumes.... Kyoto & Tokyo, Unso^do^... 23.9 x 16.2 cm. The complete inventory of design prints from the run of this important design magazine, edited by Furuya Ko^rin, one of the finest artists of the Kyoto Design Revival of late Meiji. He and many others..... More
1964. [JAPANESE PAPERMAKING] GOTO Seikichiro. KAMI NO TABI. Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppansha. Showa 39 [1964]. Large oblong folio in washi covers, 33.5 x 44.3 cm. #196 of 300cc. Illustrated beautifully in katazome throughout. The illustrations as well as the text are by Goto, a fine artist as well as one of..... More
1799. [EHON] Yamaguchi SO^KEN, artist. YAMATO JIMBUTSU GAFU. 3 vols., blue-grey covers string-bound fukuro-toji with printed paper title labels. So^ken (1759-1818) was one of O^kyo^'s most important students and his YAMATO JIMBUTSU GAFU is one of the early classics of the Shijo^ genre. Published in three volumes in 1799-1800, a...... More
Miyako Rinsen Meisho Zue [An Illustrated Guide to Famous Gardens in Kyoto] .Kyoto, Edo, Osaka, Nagoya.. Kansei 11 [1799] 5 volumes bound in 6 (with two parts to Vol 1: Upper and Lower. 26.8 x 18.3 cm volumes are string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Published in Kyoto, Edo, Osaka and Nagoya, the..... More
1875. [EHON] Katsushika HOKUSAI. FUGAKU HYAKKEI. (100 Views of Fuji). Meiji 8 [1875]. Aichi, Katano To^shiro^. 3 vols. Yellow covers. 15.7 x 22.6 cm. Paper labels. This Meiji reprint of Hokusai's classic is in very good condition with original yellow covers and title labels. The impressions are fair to good..... More
1926. [AVANT-GARDE] MURAYAMA Tomoyoshi. KOSEIHA KENKYU. [Research on Constructivism]. Tokyo, Taisho 15 [1926]. First Printing. (10),81pp., 31 plates, + finals and ads. Decorated wrappers with cover design by Murayama, printed in red and black. The plates cover works by European and Japanese proponents of Constructivism. An unusual and fragile work..... More
1934. [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA. UTA-E Kyoto & Tokyo: Unsodo, Showa 9 [1934]. 1 volume, 31 x 22 cm, cloth, ribbon bound covers, paper label. 25 color full page images after designs by Sekka. As Sekka's last work, it crowns his remarkable career with a lovely evocation of Koetsu's Saga-bon. (For..... More
1937. KITASONO Katue, poet & ONCHI Koshiro, artist. Shishu NATSU NO TEGAMI. Tokyo, Aoi Shobo, Showa 12 [1937] Folio, 30.0 X 22.0 cm, #22 of 200 copies printed. The binding, the typography, the illustrations, all combine as a fluid visual container for Kitasono's brilliant poems. Interesting to compare this work..... More
1889. [EHON] Fujikawa Sankei. SUISAN ZUKAI. Ko^be & O^saka, Meiji 22 [1889]. 2 vols., 26.2 x 18.2 cm. String-bound Japanese style, fukuro toji. Printed paper title labels. Blue grey paper covers with a net pattern. Vol.1: 2 sheets prelims.; 10 sheets preface and contents table, 40 sheets text and illustrations..... More
6. [EHON] Tani BUNCHO, artist. SHAZANRO GAHON. Edo; Izumiya Tojiro, Bunka 14 [1817]. Original grey/brown embossed covers, worn printed paper title label. 27.7 X 18.3 cm. Seems to follow (with minor differences) the collation of the 1817 edition, which Mitchell had in his collection. He did not see the 1816..... More
1811. [POETRY] GIBAKU 宜麦(1751-1828) compiler. ZOKU E KASEN 続絵歌仙. 2 vols. {Bunka 8 [1811]}. 22.7 x 16.0 cm . There are 83 single page images with poems, printed skillfully in sumi-e.... Interestingly, the block cutter Asakura Konpachi 朝倉今八, is credited but no one else. The date comes from the preface..... More
1827. [POETRY] TAICHUU 帒柱, compiler. SONO HASAE その葉さへ. {Bunsei 文政10 [1827]} 22.9 x 15.8 cm. Wonderful sumi-e prints with poems throughout, 58 single page and one double page prints.... The printing is lovely, the condition very clean, in the original covers with title label... It appears there may be a...... More
1975. SERIZAWA Keisuke. Shinpan EHON DON KIHOUTE. To^kyo^, Gohachi, Sho^wa 51 [1976]. Large color stencil printed ehon based on the story of Don Quixote, done as a "new version" 40 years after Serizawa's original version. The scale, the images, all are quite different from the first version. This is number..... More
1903. [DESIGN] UNSODO 芸艸堂, Publisher. BIJUTSUKAI 美術海. Kyoto, Unsodo, 24.0 x 16.3 cm 61 numbers of the 70 numbers printed in the BIJUTSUKAI design series, Numbers 1 thru 61, Originally issued in 70 volumes in the early 1900s.... Number one was published on January 1st, Meiji 36 [1903], Number 61..... More