19. [Cherries on a blue ground 64/150]. Itō Wako 伊藤倭子. Sheet size 32 x 45cm and image size 17 x 29.5cm. Mezzotint print of cherries on a blue ground numbered 64/150 and signed in pencil. Itō Wako 伊藤倭子 (b. 1945) was born in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, the..... More

19. Wakō Shūji 若生秀二 (b. 1953). A Shade of Difference. Sheet size 76 x 56.5cm and Image size 63 x 45cm. Numbered 39/60 and signed in pencil in the bottom margin. Undated. Lithograph print of blue and gold decorated fabric, an origami crane and an envelope with collaged postage stamps..... More

Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳. Kōrin Manga 光琳漫画. c. 1890-95. Toshikawa Hanshichi, publisher. 2 vols 24 x 16cm bound fukuro toji with printed title slips. Vol 1 has 30 cho of monochrome woodblock prints plus 1 cho of introductory Japanese text preceding the prints and a 22 x 10cm title slip laid..... More

192. Gofuku 呉服 [4 kimono textile magazines] . Tokyo. Ichida Shōten 市田商店. Four kimono magazines published by a Tokyo kimono and obi store with branches in Tokyo and Kyoto. Metallic gold and red (Issue # 61) - The December issue of Shōwa 2 昭和二年 [1927]. 31.2 x 22.7cm kimono..... More

1928. Maki Hisao 牧寿雄, artist and editor, et al. Kokusai Zuan 国際図案, The Textile and Dyeing Design, Vol 1, Issue 1. Uchida Bijutsu Shoshi 内田美術書肆, publisher. Kyoto. Shōwa 3, 1928. 27.3 x 18.9cm volume of avant-garde design with 14 original plates tipped in, varying in size from 13.2 x 9cm..... More

1928. Kokusai Bunka 国際文化 La Inter-Kulto Year 1, Issue # 2 (Kokusai Bunka Kenkyūjo Kikanshi 国際文化研究所機関誌). Kokusai Bunka Kenkyūjo 国際文化研究所, publisher. December 1928 Shōwa 3 昭和三年12月. Tokyo. 22 x 14.8cm volume with 296 pages of printed Japanese text, artwork and photos on the socialist movement in Japan and abroad, some..... More

1935. Onchi Kōshirō 恩地孝四郎. Kisetsuhyō 季節表 (Shibun-shū 詩文集). Tokyo: Aoi Shobō アオイ書房.Shōwa 10 [1935]. This copy is number 34 of only 50 deluxe copies from a total edition of 200. 3 full-page color illustrations by Onchi. Folio, 36 x 31 cm, printed on very heavy paper, bound in gilt-printed Japanese..... More

Kōno Bairei 幸野楳嶺, artist. Bairei Hyakuchō Gafu Zokuhen 楳嶺百鳥畫譜 續編 (続編) [Bairei’s Album of 100 Birds] Supplementary Series, 3 vols. Meiji 17 [1884]. Tokyo. Ōkura Magobē 大倉孫兵衛, publisher. 3 volumes approx 24.5 x 16.5cm string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji in original decorated wrappers and title slips with printed labels on top right..... More

1946. Fugaku Honsha 富岳本社, publisher. Nihon no Sansui 日本の山水. Showa 21 [1946].Tōkyō. 26 x 18.6cm volume bound Western style with decorated wrappers, opens Japanese style. Wrappers are decorated in a blue and green floral design. Title page decorated with an unattributed woodcut. 66 pages with a final note on the..... More

1921. Okamoto Ippei 岡本一平, Maekawa Sempan 前川千帆, Hiratsuka Un’ichi 平塚 運一 et al. Tōkaidō GoJūSan-sugi Manga Emaki 東海道五十三次漫画絵巻. [Taisho 10 大正 10 1921]. Jo Ge 上下. Two scrolls, each over 30 feet long and 10” high. The scroll set was done in some 250 - 300 copies by 18 members..... More

Karma: A Story of Early Buddhism, Third Ed. [crepe paper]. Paul Carus, author and Komiya Yasu 小宮ヤス, artist. Hasegawa Takejirō 長谷川武次郎, publisher (for The Open Court Publishing Co. Chicago). Tokyo. Meiji 30 [1897]. (20x15.5cm) crepe paper book (chirimen-bon 縮緬本), illustrated with color woodcuts. Bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji with stab binding..... More

Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 7: The Old Man and the Devils 瘤取 [Kobutori]. [Doctor Hepburn]ドクトルヘボン, translator. Tokyo. Meiji 19 [1886]. 18.2 x 12.2cm small book, bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji opens Western style. [9] cho with decorated wrappers in color, story ends on inside rear wrapper. Colophon in Japanese on..... More

Nishimori 西森武城, author. Hachiman Tarō (Jidō Kyōiku Rekishi Banashi) 八幡太郎 (兒童教育 歴史噺) Also 児童教育. [Tōsendō 島鮮堂, publisher]. Tokyo. [c. 1903]. 18.3 x 12.2cm volume stapled, opens Japanese style. Incomplete. 7 cho with the 2nd side of cho missing. 8 full color, original woodblock prints with decorated front wrapper and Japanese..... More