1896. Kimura Kōkichi 木村浩吉 (?-1940). Kōkai Kaisen ni Okeru Matsushimakan no Kannai no Jyōkyō 黄海海戦に於ける松島艦内の状況. 明治29年 Meiji 29 [1896]. Tokyo. Uchida Rōkakuho 内田老鶴圃刊 (Uchida Yoshibe’e 内田芳兵衛). 33 x 24.5cm work bound with thin, knotted ties, opens Japanese style and is housed in a modern chitsu with clasps 33.4 x 25.3cm..... More
![Item #90982 Pikaso [Picasso]. Kanbara Tai 神原泰, Kambara also](/pictures/thumb/90982_1.jpg?v=1652473186)
Kanbara Tai 神原泰 [also, Kambara]. Pikaso [Picasso]. ARS (Arusu-sha アルス社). Tokyo. Taisho 14 大正 [1925]. 19 x 13.5cm book with red fabric cloth hardcovers is bound Western style and opens Japanese style. The front cover has a black border and a red dot in the center and the binding has..... More
Fujimori Seikichi 藤森成吉, author and Murayama Tomoyoshi 村山知義, cover artwork. Naniga Kanojo o Sōsasetaka? 何が彼女をそうさせたか？[What Made Her Do It?]. Kaizōsha 改造社. Tokyo. Showa 2 昭和2年 [1927]. 19 x 13.5cm hardcover book opens Japanese style. Cover artwork by avant-garde artist and critic Murayama Tomoyoshi 村山知義 (1901-1977). The black and brown design..... More
Furuta Jūrō 古田重郎. Some E-chō そめ絵帖. Gohachi 吾八. Showa 36 [1961], June. 25.6 x 14.4cm orihon folding album of original, woodblock print designs in the Sōsaku Hanga 創作版画 (Creative Print Movement) tradition by artist Furuta Jūrō 古田重郎 (1921-). Pull off slip case of handmade paper has a centered, stenciled title..... More
Pikaso Sobyōshū ピカソ素描集 [Picasso Drawing Collection] - Atelier Magazine 13 #7 アトリエ 第十三巻 第七号 (with purple dust jacket). Tokyo. Atelier Shahan アトリエ社版. June, Showa 11, 1936. 26 x 19cm Atelier magazine with purple dust covers with a reproduced black and white drawing of a partial profile. Beige front wrappers with..... More
1936. Pikaso Sobyōshū ピカソ素描集 [Picasso Drawing Collection] - Atelier Magazine 13 #7 アトリエ 第十三巻 第七号. Atelier Shahan アトリエ社版. June, Showa 11 [1936]. 26 x 19cm art magazine, this volume being Picasso, published in June of Showa 11 [1936]. Vol 13 Issue 5 of Atelier magazine アトリエ published by Atelier Shahan..... More
[Dragon Tile Ceiling] Mid 18th century 67 painted wood tiles, approx. 17” square that form a ceiling artwork of dragons done in brown, green, red and gold metallic paint. The dragon tiles, individually, are about 16.25" by 17" [41.2 cm x 43.2cm]. All together they are about 125..... More
1948. Kawai Kijirō 川合喜二郎. Kappaban ABC 合羽版 ABC. Sei-ensō [privately printed]. Shōwa 23 [1948]. 17.5 x 14.7cm hardcover alphabet book bound Western style opens Japanese style with a blue stencil-printed, wraparound dust wrapper of a horizontal nude female. The front wrapper has the title 合羽版 ABC [Kappaban ABC] stenciled horizontally..... More
1975. [Seino or Nishino Tomi] [西野とみ]. Daradarakei 茶羅茶羅経. (Shikaban 私家版 [Privately published]). [昭和50] [1975] . 20.4 x 8.5cm slim volume with cream paper wrappers opens Japanese style and has a centered title slip, stenciled in dark red ink with a brown background. Inside wrappers and free end papers are single..... More
1714. [BOTANICAL] Li Shizhen, revised by Inô Jakusui. Shinkôsei HONZO KOMOKU. Kyôto & Edo. Shôtoku 4 [1714]. Ohon size, Ino [1655-1715], an important traditonal doctor, revised and enalarged Li Shizhen [1518-93]'s seminal work of materia medica, which had been imported into Japan through Nagasaki in the early 17th century. Hayashi..... More
![Item #90894 Gendai Haiga Shū 現代俳画集 [A Collection of Modern Haiga]. Nakamura Fusetsu...](/pictures/thumb/90894.jpg?v=1652473154)
1915. Gendai Haiga Shū 現代俳画集 [A Collection of Modern Haiga] Nakamura Fusetsu 中村不折, et al, artists Tokyo Haigadō 俳画堂, publisher Taisho 4-6 [1915-17] 4 volumes approx 25 x 16.5cm string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji, thread-sewn Yamato binding. One volume is dated Taisho 4 [1915] (Spring), one is 5 [1916] (Summer) and..... More
1909. [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist. MOMOYOGUSA. Kyoto: Unsodo, Meiji 42-43 [1909-10]. 3 volumes. 30.1 X 22.5 cm. Most consider it the finest Japanese design book of all time, this exquisite suite of 60 double-page color-printed woodblocks is printed and overprinted using opaque and metallic inks to produce a sumptuous surface..... More
1957. Michel Tapié, editor. Gutai, Vol 8 具体 25.2 x 26.3cm magazine with [44 pp] of black and white and color photographs of artworks, identified with artist’s names. Partial publisher’s cardboard enclosure with title printed in French on front and in Japanese on rear: L'Aventure Informelle / アヴァンチュール アンフオルメル. This issue..... More
1818. Aikawa MINWA 合川珉和, artist... 『光琳画式』 KŌRIN GASHIKI Zen. Ōsaka & Kyôto, Bunka 15 [1818]...26.1 x 18.5 cm. A wonderful compilation of Rimpa-inspired designs was created by Minwa, a very talented artist of the time who was capable of almost any style. Here he has created a wonderful compendium of..... More
1870. Katsushika HOKUSAI 葛飾北斎 「武者絵本、[MUSHA-EHON WARRIOR BOOKS」 EHON SAKIGAKE 絵本魁; EHON MUSASHI ABUMI 絵本武蔵鐙; EHON WAKAN NO HOMARE 絵本和漢誉... Toukyou, Suzuki Tadashi 鈴木忠. n.d.... c. early Meiji [1870s?] 23.5 Ｘ15.5 CM in three matching volumes, bound in green, string bound fukuro-toji, with the original title labels. Suzuki Tadashi is described as the owner..... More
1928. [AVANT GARDE DESIGN] FURUKAWA Kôhei, artist. Shinkankaku Moyō 新感覚模様.25 x 18cm orihon folding album housed in a case 26 x 18.5cm. 25 double leaves with a total of 44 pages of color woodblock printed designs, printed by the famous Uchida company, Uchida Bijutsu Shoshi 内田美術書肆, who were responsible for..... More
![Item #90932 [Two Matchbook Label Albums][Rinpyō 燐票](/pictures/thumb/90932.jpg?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
1912. Asai Chū 淺井忠. Mokugo Zuanshū 默語圖案集. Kyōto : Unsōdō. Meiji 45 [1912]. 1st printing Meiji 42 [1909]. This is the third printing of Meiji 45 [1912]. Printed paper covers over boards, tassel-bound. In the original clasped chitsu with a paper label. This tall 4to sized volume (36.5 x 25cm..... More
Iijima Fumitsune 飯島文常, artist. Chikugado 竹画堂刀 , block cutter. Fumitsune Hōgikuchō 文常芳菊帖 (also Hōgikuchō 芳菊帖). Korakudo 後楽堂, publisher. [Tenpo 2 天保二 1832]. 27.5 x 19cm orihon folding album with navy blue boards in brown chitsu with clasps. Photocopied title slip on front board; chitsu title slip reads Hōgikuchō 芳菊帖. Introductory..... More
1897. [PRANG, Louis]. ORIENTAL CERAMIC ART Illustrated by Examples from the Collection of W. T. Walters. Text by S. W. Bushell, M.D., Physician to H. B. M. Legation, Peking. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. From an edition limited to 500 copies (although it is unlikely that more than..... More
1926. [AVANT GARDE EROTICA] MURAYAMA Tomoyoshi. HENTAI GEIJUTSU-SHI. Taishou 15 [1926] Bungei Shiryou Kenkyuukai, Toukyou, Frontis., 2pp, 2pp, 52+pp. 22.0 x 15.0 cm., bound Japanese-style, string- bound, fukuro-touji, with a printed paper title label on the cover. There are many plates, b+w and color, selected to demonstrate Murayama's essay on..... More
![Item #90863 Yōsei no Kyori 妖精の距離 [Fairy’s Distance]. author Takiguchi...](/pictures/thumb/90863_01.jpg?v=1652473128)
1937. Takiguchi Shūzō 瀧口修造, author and Abe Yoshifumi (also Yoshibumi, Abe Nobuya) 阿部芳文 (阿部展也), artist. Yōsei no Kyori 妖精の距離 [Fairy’s Distance]. Showa 12 [1937]. Tokyo: Shunchōkai 春鳥会. 30.3 x 24.5cm folio of poetry with a magnifying glass design on the front cover. Three single sheets 30.2 x 24.2cm: one with..... More
![Item #90912 Japanese Village - Bradley’s Straight Line Picture Cut-outs [Unmade paper model]....](/pictures/thumb/90912_01.jpg?v=1652473168)
1920. Japanese Village - Bradley’s Straight Line Picture Cut-outs [Unmade paper model]. Milton Bradley Company. Springfield, MA. 1920. Unmade paper model in sheets is enclosed in a green and white envelope depicting a Japanese village with people, trees, a bridge and buildings. The cut-out pieces are in black and white..... More
189. [Mori Yūzan 森雄山, artist]. Shiki no Yosooi (Vol 1) 四季のよそほひ 上. [Kyoto, Unsōdō 芸艸堂, publisher]. [c. Meiji 29-36 c.1896-1903]. Single volume 23.7 x 16.4 cm string-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji in printed paper wrappers. 1st of 2 volumes with 25 cho of 50 delicately illustrated woodblock patterns. Preliminary cho has..... More
Kuwagata Keisai 鍬形恵斎, artist (also known as Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美). Keisai Ryakuga Zen 恵斎畧画全. Touto 東都 (Tokyo/Edo). Suharaya Mōhei. n.d. [c.1850s]. 25.2 x 18.2cm string-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji with the original printed title label. The title on the internal title page is Keisai Ryakuga-En 恵斎畧画苑. 32 cho including introductory notes, with..... More