19. [Ehon] Yanagawa Shigenobu, artist. YANAGAWA GAJO. Owari [Nagoya]: Minôya Iroku, Minôya Bunjirô, n.d., 22.8 x 15.7 cm. Red covers, paper label, 47 (+1) pages of color woodcut illustrations. [Ref: Forrer, pp.246,7] There is a title page on the front inner cover anda publishers' ad for six titles inside the..... More
1823. [EHON] Yashima GAKUTEI, artist. ICHIRO GAFU. Ôsaka, Maekawa Zembei, [preface dated zodiacally as 1823]. 22.1 X 15.4 cm. Orange covers blind-patterned with a lozenge design, dark blue printed paper title label, fukuro toji binding, string-bound Japanese style. Illustrated throughout in color with many single and double page landscapes with..... More
1823. [EHON] Yashima GAKUTEI, artist. ICHIRO GAFU. Gasendo, 1823 [zodiacal date]. 22.8 X 16.1 cm. Blind-patterned grey-green covers, dark blue printed paper title label, fukuro toji binding, string-bound Japanese style. Illustrated throughout in color with many single and double page landscapes with figures. [Re: Hillier & Smith #127; Hillier Vol.2..... More
1813. [EHON] Yorita Kyûhô. Shinkoku KINSHI GAFU. Nagoya, Ôsaka, Edo & Kyôto, Tôhekido, et al. Bunka 10 [1813]. 29.6 x 19.3 cm, original covers and printed paper title label. Some staining but a wonderful printing overall. There are copies at Waseda and the Diet Library in Tokyo. Not in Mitchell..... More
[EHON] [Ki Baitei, artist]. KYÛRO GAFU. 1 volume. Kôto [Kyôto], N.D. [Bunsei?]. 26.2 x 18.6 cm String-bound Japanese style fukuro- toji. Resembles the copy "c" in Mitchell at p. 403 for the presence of 64 single page images in sumi, (a greater number of images than the first edition with..... More
ELLSWORTH, Robert Hatfield. CHINESE FURNITURE: Hardwood Examples and Early Ch'ing Dynasties. New York: Random House, (c. 1970). From the library of the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, Mass, with the Museum's bookpate to fpd, small ink stamp to half-title; no external marks. 4to., olive cloth, lettered and..... More
1986. ELLSWORTH, Robert Hatfield. LATER CHINESE PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY: 1800-1950, 3 VOLUMES. New York, 1986. 10.5 x 15", 3 vols, xvi; xviii; xxiii, 399; 369; 281 pp., 875 color plates, 118 text-figures, text in English with Chinese captions, index, cloth, all edges gilt in gold, brown decorative clamshell style box..... More
1872. [EMAKI - HANDSCROLL] Shimizu TÔYÔ, artist. HEIAN TÔYÔ JÛNIGETSU JIMBUTSU GAZU. 29 cm. tall and about 684 cm long (over 20 feet). Tôyô was a Shijô style Japanese painter who here has captured the energy and fun of the holidays of the twelve months in Kyôto. The handscroll was..... More
[EMAKI PAINTED HANDSCROLL] Sei Shonagon. MAKURA ZÔSHI. Very long (approximately 33 feet long and 10 3/4 inches tall) black and white painted and calligraphed illustrated version of this classic Heian era literary work, the PILLOW BOOK. The original work was finished about 1002 after the author had spent years as..... More
1800. [EMAKI]. ZODIACAL ANIMALS HANDSCROLL. Never finished: It has 10 animals, with a space near the beginning - after the first animal - for 2 more. All but the boar [inoshishi] and the ox [ushi] are present. A skilled hand - most probably late Edo, unsigned, unsealed. 29 x 582..... More
1918. [EMA] Tanaka SHUNJI, editor. EMA KAGAMI Isshû, Nishû. Printed by by Bankadô in Kyôto, Taishô 7 [1918]. Two large tassel-bound volumes of designs and explanatory text regarding the ubiquitous ema tablets used as offerings at shrines. Originally "pictures of horses" "e-ma" were used as a substitute for the horse..... More
1935. ENDERS, Gordon B. and ANTHONY, Edward. NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. With sixty-four photographs. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1935). Inscribed presentation copy from Edward Anthony. 8vo., grey cloth; 434pp.. Sunning at spine. Very good, in a jacket with nicks at edges... More
1928. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPAN] Endoo Ryooshin. HONGANJI SHASHINCHOO. Kyoto, 1928. 37.8 X 28 cm. Cord-bound in an oblong format. Wood-block printed crepe paper over stiff boards. With 26 beautiful full-page b+w photogravures of sights in the temple complex of Honganji, the captions of which are printed in Japanese and French..... More
[JAPANESE EPHEMERA] JAPANESE EPHEMERA COLLECTION - 125 PIECES, PHOTOS, CARDS, 19TH-20TH CENTURY. Mostly for Western tourists, this collection includes hotel luggage labels and tags in various shapes and sizes; matchbox labels (in English and Japanese); trade cards with ornate designs; three hand colored albumen photographs, 8 x 10.5 in.; greeting..... More
1958. [EPHEMERA] VIETNAM PRESS/VIET-NAM THONG TA'N XA. [Saigon:] Vietnam Press [n.d. ca. 1958]. 28 + [2] pp. 8vo., printed illustrated stapled wrappers in red, yellow and black. Very good, small shallow dampstain to bottom edge of text and covers (not affecting interior text). B/w photo reproductions. The Saigon agency's self-promoting..... More
19. [EPHEMERA - Matchbox and Matchbook Covers]. A COLLECTION OF OVER 950 JAPANESE MATCHBOX AND MATCHBOOK COVERS from both the pre- and postwar period mounted in one album. The vast majority are clipped matchbox covers from the preWar era - cafe culture at its finest on display. Then there are..... More
2012. ESKENAZI. QING PORCELAIN FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION. London: Eskenazi, 2012. 4to, 106pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt to front and spine. Fine, in fine dustjacket. More
2002. ESKENAZI. TWO RARE CHINESE PORCELAIN FISH JARS OF THE 14TH AND 16TH CENTURIES. London: Eskanazi, 2002. 4to. 51pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt to front and spine. Fine, in fine dustjacket. More
1923. (EXHIBITION CATALOGUE). CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY MODERN JAPANESE ARTISTS. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1923. 8vo, 10 pp. text + 26 pp. half-tone reproductions. Printed wraps, worn and soiled, slight soil also to title p., else very good internally... More
1976. [EXHIBITION]. ORIENTAL LACQUER. An exhibition organized by guest curator, F. Bailey Vanderhoef, Jr. (Santa Barbara): Santa Barbara Museum of Art, (1976). 1/1000 copies. 4to., brown wrappers; 32 pp. Fine. More
1935. [EXHIBITION CATALOGUE] Asahi Shinbunsha. Shûkan Asahi Rinjisôkan NIKA GASHÛ. Ôsaka. Shôwa 10 [1935]. Folio, color-printed paper wrappers, 38.1 x 26.3cm. Profusely illustrated with b+w photo illustrations of art exhibited in the 22nd annual Nikakai exhibition in 1935. Very slight edgewear, very good overall. An interesting resource on this important..... More
1970. [FACSIMILE] THORNTON, John. ENGLISH PILOT. The Third Book. Describing the Sea-Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Straits, Shoals, Rocks and Dangers....in the Oriental Navigation. (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Series of Atlases in Facsimile, Fifth Series, Volume III. A facsimile of the John How edition, London, 1703.With an Introduction by Coolie Verner and R.A...... More
19. [FAIRY TALE SERIES]. HANASAKI JIJI [Translated internally as THE OLD MAN WHO MADE THE DEAD TREES BLOSSOM] Kobunsha, Tokyo, Meiji 18 [1885]. A large format, 18.3 x 12.5 cm, plain paper version of this title. An extremely early version of this work, with no mention of the Fairy Tale..... More
18. [FAN PAINTING] Murata KAGEN, artist. An unmounted fan painting by Kagen [d.1849], an Osaka artist mentioned in both Hillier's UNINHIBITED BRUSH and his 2 vol. work on ehon as a book designer and book illustrator. A lovely simple Shijô-style composition of flowers in light ink and muted colors. Signed..... More
18. [FAN PAINTING] Ueda KÔCHO, artist. ISE JINGU - PRIEST AND ATTENDANT. Original color and sumi painting on fan - shaped heavy paper (unmounted) by Ueda Kôcho, the important and prolific Shijô school artist and illustrator of the the first half of the 19th Century. (See Mitchell 102 for the..... More