1828. Amano Genkai and Kaseya Sojun. FUYÔ KIKAN. Published 1828 [Bunsei 11] Fifteen double page woodblock printed views of Mt Fuji. Ink and color on paper; paper covers. Orihon folding album. Original printed title label, original cover. No colophon, but date in preface. Seems to have same content as Pulverer... More
1979. [Poetry] Horiguchi, Daigaku. SHISHÛ, FUJISAN A collection of Horiguchi's poetry. Includes 3 prints by the important creative print movement printmaker, Sekinô Junichiro. A lithograph, a mezzotint and a color woodblock print, as called for. Signed by Horiguchi. A lovely production. Includes the original advance pamphlet, laid-in. Very fine in... More
1514. [Ehon] Sin, Yong-gae. SOK SAMGANG HAENGSILTO. Preface from 1514 but presumed to be a 1579 printing. Although a later impression, Korean volumes of this age and importance are seldom found. The Sok Samgang Haengsilto ('Continued Illustrated Exemplars of the Three Bonds') was published as a continuation or 'updated... More
1985. [Creative Print Movement] Kajiyama, Toshio, KAJIYAMA TOSHIO SHOHYÔ SAKUHIN: ZANMU KAIRAI-JÔ. 1985 Shôwa 60. An album of tipped-in woodblock-printed ex-libris designed by acclaimed illustrator Kajiyama Toshio (1935-2015). This volume is one of a limited edition of only seven copies, and is inscribed and stamped by Kajiyama to Saito Senichiro..... More
1974. MONMON-CHÔ [Katazome]. Serizawa Keisuke, artist. Tokyo: Gallery Gohachi, 1974 Showa 49. First edition. An orihon folding album with many free designs created by Serizawa Keisuke, the master stencil-printing and mingei artist, who was named a Living National Treasure in 1956. The album includes a total of 62 monochrome collotype-printed... More
1783. [Kyôka] Bakuribô, Teiya, [edited by]. Kyôka Kaki no Tane [Kyoto]: Fujiya Shinbe, 1783. First edition. A book of kyôka poems accompanied by twenty-one delightful sumi-e vignettes, edited by Bakuribo Teiya. Bakuribo, a kyôka poet based in Kyoto, was a student of kyôka poet Kyûjokan Donei (1723-1767). He..... More
1955. [SÔSAKU HANGA]. SEKINO Jun'ichirô, artist. TENMOKU SANSÔ: Eiri Shôsetsu. Tokyo: Sekino Jun'ichirô, 1955 Shôwa 30. First edition. A novel written, illustrated, designed, and published by important Creative Print Movement artist Sekino Junichiro (1914-1988). Sekino, a friend of Munakata Shiko, originally studied etching under Kon Junzo before becoming a student..... More
1958. [Sôsaku Hanga]. Mokuyôshi, Morimoto. Surî Pâda Tôchô-ki. Ôsaka: Ôsaka Rîchi, 1958. First edition. A record of artist Morimoto Mokuyoshi's climb up Mount Sri Pada (Adam's Peak), Sri Lanka, in 1928, illustrated with color woodblock prints and bound in an interesting palm leaf-style binding. The upper board of the book..... More
[PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPAN] ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE KANTO EARTHQUAKE OF 1923. Oblong 11" x 15" grey cloth cord-bound covers. 93 original b/w photographs 4 3/8" x 6" mounted on thick card stock, two per page.Bookplate to fly leaf reads "ex libris K. Sinkai". Boards are slightly... More
1860. [SHUNGA] Attributed to Utagawa Kunimori II. SHAKA HASSÔ ZOKU YAMATO BUNKO 3 vols. [Preface dated Mannen 1 {1860} Kunimori was active from about 1840 to 1860. 22.7 x 15.3 cm. String-bound, fukuro-toji, hanshibon. In the original printed covers, volumes two and three have the original printed title labels, volume... More
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1929. [AVANT GARDE] ITAGAKI Takao, et al. SHINKÔ GEIJUTSU [Complete run] Tôkyô, Geibun-shoin. A complete six-issue set of the periodical 'Shinko Geijutsu', in 5 volumes (issues five and six were published together in one volume). 'Shinko Geijustu', translated as 'the new arts', or 'the avant-garde arts', was a magazine created..... More
1997. [CREATIVE PRINT MOVEMENT] KANAMORI Yoshio. KAHAKUDÔ-GATARI. Tôkyô, Gohachi. An illustrated record of the travels of Japanese creative print artist Kanamori Yoshio (1922-). In this volume Kanamori describes his travels to the Yangtze, the Three Gorges Dam, Washington, Australia, Alaska, and so on. His memoirs are accompanied by six full-page..... More
1840. [EHON] TSURUNOYA Osamaru, editor. KYÔKA KANYÛSHÛ. [Tempô 11 {1840}] Ôsaka, carved by Shihosan Kiyû. A compilation of comical tanka, with illustratons in stunning colours by Kitagawa Horonobu and Matsukawa Hanzan (1815-1882). While little is known about the former artist, Matsukawa Hanzan is known to have studied art under ukiyo-e..... More
[SÔSAKU HANGA] TAKEI Takeo. KANPON SAKUHIN SHINRUI TSÛSHIN; SHINRUI MEIBO. Tôkyô, 1963 - 1981. A set of 24 issues of 'Kanpon Sakuhin Shinrui Tsushin', together with two issues of 'Takei Takeo Kanpon Sakuhin Shinrui Meibo', by the famous Japanese illustrator, Takei Takeo (1894-1983). 'Shinrui Tsushin' were small booklets..... More
[CHINESE PRINTING] FANG Guan-cheng; Qianlong, Emperor of China. YU TI MIAN HUA TU [Early 20th C.?] An album of 12 reproductions of stone rubbings from Qing Dynasty Chinese court painter and noble Fang Guancheng's work 'Yu Ti Mian Hua Tu' ['Imperially Inscribed Illustrations of Cotton Production']. The original work by... More
1804. [ENPON - SHUNGA] Kitagawa UTAMARO, artist. MICHIYUKI KOI NO FUTOSAO. N.D. [1802]. 21.1 x 15.0 cm. 3 volumes. Original handpainted covers, and abraded original title labels. The b+w version of this important work by Utamaro, usually accepted as the original edition before the addition of color blocks. A very... More
1801. [EHON] Utagawa TOYOKUNI I. Yôbô Shashin HAIYÛ SANKAI-KYÔ. Edo, Nishimiya Shinroku, Yorozuya Tajiemon, Kansei 13 [1801]. 21.6 x 15.2 cm., hanshibon, string-bound, fukuro-toji. With the original blind-stamped covers. The printed title labels is soiled but present on volume one and nearly gone from volume two. It has the title... More
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1934. [DESIGN] Ôzu Dôjin, design group. HIMEKESHI [REISHUN]. Uchida Bijutsu, Kyoto, Showa 9 [1934] ..x.. cm. Orihon in brocade covers with printed paper title label, all in the original publisher's clasped chitsu with title label. There are 32 pages, 16 double page printes in color woodblock of flower and botanical... More
1943. SERIZAWA KEISUKE. MASHIKO HIGAERI. This work was privately printed by Serizawa in 1943 in katazome stencil printing, bound fukuro-toji, string-bound Japanese-style. there are 23 full page colored stencil plates. The first 25 copies of A DAY TRIP TO MASHIKO were in full size, as here, 30.2 x 21.5 cm... More
1900. [CREPE PAPER BOOK] FLORENZ, K. Japanische Dramen TERAKOYA u. ASAGAO. Leipzig: C.F. Amelangs Verlag (Hasegawa, Yotsuya Hommura, Tokyo, Meiji 33 [1900]) Large format (19.6 X 15.4 cm) creped paper book, illustrated with color woodcuts. This is the "Dritte Auflage". Near fine in a clasped wraparound that shows but the... More
1837. [MEISHOKI]. NIKKÔ SANSHI, 5 vols. Edo, Tempo 8 [1837]. 25.7 x 18.3 cm., With original covers, though they are not the light blue covers called for at Mitchell 436, but rather grey covers with a blind-printed pattern of floral roundels. A fresh and clean copy in good impression (perhaps... More
1949. SEKINO Jun'ichirô, artist. KOJIKI EMAKI. Tôkyô, Sei-en-sô, Shôwa 24 [1949]. Printed "hors commerce" #33 in an edition of 120 copies, signed by Sekino. A large (36 x 30 cm) kappa-ban, color stencil-printed volume in stencil-printed boards, bound fukuro-toji but with Western-style spine. A rendition of the early histories embodied... More
1970. [CREATIVE PRINT MOVEMENT] KANAMORI Yoshio. KOZAN. Nihon Aishokai, Shôwa 45, signed by Kanamori. Number 132 of 150 copies. Huge western bound folio, 45.9 x 31.7 cm. Each of the 15 color woodblock illustrations is double page - and are in consequence remarkably large and therefore difficult to print. Quite... More
1911. [EHON - Design Book] Yamada Unsôdô, publisher. MOMIJI. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, Meiji 44 [1911]. 26.5 x 19 cm. Orihon, with printed paper covers over boards. Thirty double fold sets of color woodcuts detailing the leaf forms of some 187 different species of Japanese maple. A scarce example of Unsodo's... More
1929. [EHON - BOTANICAL] Tanigami KÔNAN, artist. SHÔKEI KABENJÔ San. Kyoto, Unsôdô, Shôwa 4 [1929]. There is a complex series of puns involved with the titling of this work. Suffice it to say that the title describes a collection of designs of flowers and grasses of an unusually large size..... More