1865. [EHON] Yamamoto BAIOKU, artist. BAIOKU GAFU. N.P., N.D. No publishing information, but the final note is dated Keiô Gan-nen [1865]. 27.2 x 20.5 cm. String-bound, Japanese style, fukuro-toji, with the printed paper title label intact. The covers are a bit worn and there are a few internal blemishes, but..... 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
1898. [FUJI] TANAKA Shigetarô 田中茂太郎 SHINSHA FUJI HYAKUZU 真写富士百図 Tôhoku no bu. 東北の部 Tôkyô, Kyoto and Ôsaka. Meiji 31 [1898] Though this group of 24 single page and 8 double page grey scale woodblock images (with occasional light coloring) is subtitled "northest section", there were no later parts. Thus complete. Bound orihon..... More
1830. [HAIKAI] RINRAI Katsurayama. SHIJIMI KAGO-SHU 1 volume, complete. N.p., n.p., Bunsei 13 [1830]. 22.8 x 15.8 cm. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukurô toji. Little is known of the editor of this haiku compilation, Rinrai, other than that he was a haiku poet and monk of the late Edo period who also..... More
![Item #89955 (Eari 絵有) Kaidan Zensho 怪談全書 [Ukiyozōshi 浮世草子], 5 vols. author...](/pictures/thumb/89955.jpg?v=1652472616)
1698. Hayashi Razan 林羅山, author (Eari 絵有) Kaidan Zensho 怪談全書 [Ukiyozōshi 浮世草子], 5 vols. Edo & Kyoto Genroku 元禄 11 [1698] 25.1 x 17.6 cm. String- bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. (Hayashi Razan 林羅山 (1583-1657) was the Confucian tutor of the third Tokugawa shogun and translated the..... More
1914. Hirase Yoichirō 平瀬與一郎. Kai Senshu 貝千種. Kyoto: Unsodo 芸艸堂, 4 vols. Taisho 3-11 [1914-22] 24.8 X 17.8 cm. 4 vols., complete. Printed paper title labels, silk over boards. Orihon folding books of color woodcuts of shells. Each volume contains 20 double page prints. Though the English title would be..... More
![Item #88707 [Denshin Kaishu] HOKUSAI MANGA Rop-pen. HOKUSAI MANGA, Katsushika I-itsu](/pictures/thumb/88707.jpg?v=1611849830)
1819. (HOKUSAI MANGA) Katsushika I-itsu [Denshin Kaishu] HOKUSAI MANGA Roppen. Edo: Kadomaruya, Bunsei 2 [1819]. 22.7 x 15.9 cm. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Original covers with brushed title. Though Nagoya-based Eirakuya Toshiro editions of the MANGA are quite common, the Edo issues by Kadomaruya are quite unusual. In addition, this is..... More
1804. [EHON] IKE NO TAIGA, artist. TAIGADO GAFU. [Kyoto], Prefatory date of Kyôwa 3 [1803], no colophon, like the Mitchell copy at page 509. 30.0 x 19.2 cm. Orihon folding album in rubbed tan covers with the original printed title label. Profusely illustrated throughout in color - this great classic..... More
[ISHIZURI]. KANCHU HAKKEI [EIGHT VIEWS OF GUANZHONG]. 20th Century stone printed style album of eight views and poems of sights near the ancient capital of Chang'an, celebrated through history for their beauty. This "stone printing" is based on a stele, commissioned in the 19th year of the K'ang Hsi Emperor..... More
1687. [EHON - KANAZO^SHI]. KAMPAKU MONOGATARI. Also known as the JURAKU MONOGATARI. An early Edo-era kanazo^shi genre story, here based on the bloody history of the Regent. Bound three volumes in one, 17 sheets; 22 sheets; 14 sheets. 26.8 x 18.5 cm., with one original printed title label tipped on..... More
1827. Kawamura Kiho^, artist. KIHO^ GAFU. Kyoto: Yoshida Shimbei, Bunsei 10 [1827]. 1 vol. (complete). 17.3 x 25.7 cm. 5 page prelims, 30 double page color woodblock prints, 1p final, 8pp ads, colophon. The covers are worn (probably not original). The contents are somewhat soiled and stained. Good impressions, contemporary..... More
1771. Kawamura MINSETSU, artist. Tanyu^ HYAKU FUJI. To^kyo^, Sho^eido^[N.D., late Meiji?] 18.0 x 25.2 cm. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. The original edition of 1771 is here reprinted [from the original blocks?] in four volumes with cream blindstamped covers and original printed title labels. A bit of soiling to the covers. Clean..... More
1873. KAWAMURA Teizan. BANKOKU TSU^SHIN O^RAI. To^kyo^, O^saka, etc., Meiji 6 [1873]. Bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji in the original covers with the remains of the original printed title label. The first few pages are printed in color woodblock, illustrating the treaty ports of the time, including Nagasaki, Ko^be, Yokohama, etc. There..... More
1887. Kawanabe Kyoosai [Gyosai]. GYOSAI GADAN. Tokyo: Iwamoto Shun, Meiji 20 [1887]. 25.4 x 17.6 cm. 4 volumes, string-bound Japanese-style in printed covers with paper labels. All in a folding "chitsu" box with a colorful woodblock printed label (clasps missing). Black and white and color illustrations throughout. This famous artist's..... More
1813. Sōka Ryakugashiki 草花略画式 Keisai Masayoshi 恵斎政美 (also Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美), artist Tōto 東都 (Edo 江戸): Suharaya Ichibe’e, et al 須原屋市兵衛, publishers Bunka 10 [1813] [Ehon, botanical, flowers] Single volume 27.3 x 18.2 cm. Original covers, printed title label. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji. Bold and simple renditions of plants..... More
2007. KEYES, Roger S. EHON: THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK IN JAPAN. Seattle, WA: New York Public Library/University of Washington Press, 2007. Second printing. 320 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in silver, in a color pictorial dust jacket. Book and jacket fine, as new. Companion to the New York Public..... More
1800. [KYÔKA] BAIKÔ Hakuensai. KYÔKA SETSUGETSUKA 1 volume, complete. Shioya Saburobei, Osaka, Kansei 12 [1800]. 22.1 x 15.8 cm. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukurô toji. Baikô (1737-1805) was a kyôka poet based in Osaka. His father, Setsuensai Ikkô, was the owner of a bookshop in Osaka and studied kyôka poetry under Nagata..... More
1777. [KYÔKA] BAIKÔ Hakuensai, KÔAMI Hokkyô (artist). E-IRI KYÔKA MITSUNOURA 1 volume, complete. Shioya Saburobei, Osaka, Anei 6 [1777]. 22.5 x 16.3 cm. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukurô toji. Baikô (1737-1805) was a kyôka poet based in Osaka. His father, Setsuensai Ikkô, was the owner of a bookshop in Osaka and studied..... More
![Item #89925 Ōkyo Gafu 應舉画譜 [also En-Ō Gafu 圓應画譜]. artist Maruyama Ōkyo...](/pictures/thumb/89925.jpg?v=1652472601)
1860. Ōkyo Gafu 應舉画譜 [also En-Ō Gafu 圓應画譜] (Vol 1 Jimbutsu no bu 人物之部 and Vol 2 Sansui no bu 山水之部) Maruyama Ōkyo 圓山應舉 (円山応挙), artist Kyoto: Hishiya Magobei 2 vols.. n.d., n.p., String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. With light colors and very good impressions and Japanese text. The original edition..... More
1786. [MEISHO-KI] Akisato Rito^ & Takehara Shuncho^sai. MIYAKO MEISHO ZU-E 6 volumes. 27.2 x 18.7 cm. Kyo^to, Yoshinoya Ihachi. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. The colophon lists the original edition as being from 1780 [An'ei 9] and the copy at hand a "recut, reprinted" expanded edition published in 1786 [Temmei 6]. It..... More
1857. [MILITARY] NAKANISHI Ki-ichiro^, author. SEIYO^ HEIGAKU KUNMO Zen. N.P., Ansei 4 [1857]. 25.8 x 18.2 cm. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Printed paper title label, original off-white covers. Done in traditional kinmo-zui style with a page of 9 color printed images of militaria from the West, facing a page with a...... More
![Item #87252 [Ehon 絵本] Kakemono Zukagami 懸物図鑑. artist Nishimura Tomonari...](/pictures/thumb/87252.jpg?v=1613851149)
1806. [Ehon 絵本] Kakemono Zukagami 懸物図鑑 Nishimura Tomonari 西村知備, artist N.P. Bunka 3 [1806] 26.6 x 19 cm volume, string-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji with brushed title slip. Interesting collection of 19 color printed images of kakemono 懸物: fragrant curative talismans made of leaves and flowers with aromatic..... More
![Item #88475 Soga Hyakubutsu 麁画百物 [Sketches of a Hundred Things]. artist Ōishi Matora...](/pictures/thumb/88475.jpg?v=1613851444)
1832. Soga Hyakubutsu 麁画百物 [Sketches of a Hundred Things] Ōishi Matora 大石真虎, artist Osaka: Bunkaido, Tsurugaya Kuhei, Tempo 3 [1832] 2 volumes 22.4 x 16 cm, string-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. In the original blue and white patterned covers with the original printed paper title label. The..... More