1919. [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] Ôtani Sonyû & Iguchi Kashû, artists. TOKAIDÔ GOJÛSAN-TSUGI EMAKI Kyoto Taisho 11 [1922]. Eight handscrolls with woodcut coloring over collotype, complete. The scrolls have bone jiku with brocade covers and sumi over gold title labels. SCROLL ONE. Congratulatory inscriptions by Otani Kozui (then Abbot of Nishi Hoganji..... More
1927. Toyosha, publisher. Fujingahō 婦人書報 The Ladies Graphic no 267. Tokyo : Tokyosha, 1927 November. 26 x18.5m. 192 pp. Western bound magazine in colored, printed paper wrappers that opens Japanese style. Japanese text with some English language captions. November issue of a monthly womens' lifestyle magazine, Fujingahō, established in 1905..... More
1978. Uemura Rokuro 上村六郎 . Nishikiori Taikanzen Edojidai (Chūgoku) Genjin/Motondo Shiki 錦織大鑑 全 江戸時代 (中国) 元人識 . n.p.: Showa 53 [1978]. 32 x 39.5cm double accordion fold album comprised of hand-mounted samples of vintage Chinese fabrics housed in a 35.5 x 43.5cm custom wooden box with ribbon ties. Patterned fabric-covered..... More
18. [UKIYO-E ALBUM] TOYOKUNI III [KUNISADA] ALBUM OF 68 UKIYO-E PRINTS, mid-19th Century. A folding album, brocade-covered album of mounted oban-size ukiyo-e prints, back to back. 68 prints in all by Kunisada, including singles, diptychs and triptychs, all signed and sealed. There are some very interesting prints in good impression..... More
1715. [UKIYOZÔSHI] Ejima Kiseki, author. Shinpan E-iri SEKEN MUSUKO KATAGI 世間子息気質. Kyôto, Preface dated Shôtoku 5 [1715], 24.9 x 17.6 cm., string-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Ejimaya. With a notice of the impending publication of the sequel SEKEN MUSUME KATAGI, so a very early printing, indeed, a fact born out by its..... More
1979. Yonekura Masakane 米倉 斉加年 Ômara Kômara 大麻羅小麻羅. 未来工房. Tokyo. Mirai Kōbō. Showa 54 [1979]. A 10.5 x 8.5 cm western bound book in black cloth housed in a yellow slipcase with title and author on front and spine. Signed by the author. Numbered 528 in a limited edition of..... More