1983. KANZAKI ONJUN, printmaker. SHOHYÔSHÛ KAZE. One of 15 house copies, signed by Kanzaki, printed after the distributed edition of 50 copies. So, #58 of 65, inscribed to Imamura Hidetarou. Shôwa 58 [1983]. 22 x 16 cm. With 15 tipped in katazome stencil printed bookplates. The orihon folding album is..... More
1986. [KATAZOME] KANZAKA Onjun. TOKI TO NINGYÔ TO. Horita Ryohei, n.p. [Osaka?], Showa 61 [1986]. 16.3 x 22.2 cm. Designed, printed and colored by Onjun in his katazome stencil medium. Number 49 of only 50 copies of this lovely book bound in orihon folding album style in stiff washi-covered boards..... More
1984. [KATAZOME] Kanzaki ONJUN, artist. RANPU [Rinpyô] 1 vol. 23.0 x 16.1 cm, Tôkyô, Gohachi, Shôwa 59 [1984]. 50 copies were distributed, plus there were "house copies" that were given to friends. This is thus numbered #58. A counterpoint of Kanzaki's designs for lamps facing pages of designs for matchbox..... More
1960. [KATAZOME] OKAMURA Kichiemon 岡村吉右衛門. NARADA NO TAFU 奈良乃太布. Shôwa 35 [1960]. String-bound Japanese-style, privately printed in 50 copies. 31.1 x 19.7 cm., Okamura (1916-2002) was a student of Serizawa Keisuke and embraced his interest in traditional Japanese folk arts, papermaking and stencil printing (katazome). This lovely monograph on Japanese..... More
1960. Okamura Kichiemon 岡村吉右衛門 TOKUJIRÔ SHÔGYÔ 徳次郎正業 Privately printed. Shōwa 35 [1960]. 29.9 x 21.3 cm. One of 100 copies, signed by Okamura. The work, printed in stencil in color on handmade paper is string-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Okamura was Serizawa's most important student and excelled at producing compelling livre d'artiste..... More
1959. Okamura Kichiemon 岡村吉右衛門. WASURE NOKOSARESHI MUTSUGAMI NO HANASHI 陸奥紙残忘緑 (忘れ残されしむつがみのはなし) 29.9 x 21.6cm string-bound, Japanese-style. One of 50 copies printed. Signed by the artist. 21 x 15cm printed explanation booklet in Japanese laid in. Stencil printed monochrome with textual illustrations on records of hand papermaking from the provinces..... More
1956. Okamura Kichiemon 岡村吉右衛門 ZAYÛ SANBÔ NO SHÔ 座右三宝之頌 3 v. 32.2 x 20.4 cm. Privately published in 100 copies by Okamura Kichiemon 岡村吉右衛門, a remarkably talented and prolific artist and scholar, who recorded the arts and crafts of postWar Japan using the stencil techniques of katazome dyeing on beautiful..... More
1960. Okamura Kichiemon 岡村吉右衛門. DATE MONIWA NO SHINANUNO 伊達茂庭之榀布. N.p. Shōwa 35 [1960]. 30.4 x 20.8 cm. One of 200 copies, signed by Okamura. (Other reading of title is Date Moniwa no Shinanuno.) Tipped-in fabric sample approx 17 x 9.5cm. The work, printed in stencil in color on handmade paper..... More
18. [PAPER SAMPLES]. TÔSEI SHINKOMON HONCHÔ. String-bound, Japanese -style, fukuro-toji. 28 X 21 cm, with 138 designs on 23 pages (6 per page). Stencil-printed "komon" designs. The blindstamped patterned covers are lovely and subtle. Interesting, skillfully printed tiny repeating pattern designs of white dots on black. Overall the condition is..... More
[PAPER, JAPANESE]. Mingei-gami KUREHA. [Kyôto] Showa 32 [1957] Oblong folio, in brocade covers with printed paper title label, 25.9 X 40.3 cm, oblong. There are 30 pages of color stencil-dyed patterned papers, mounted one or two to a page within paper frames. In a tied chitsu folding box. Superb quality..... More
1980. [Papermaking, Korean] Gotô Seikichirô. KANKOKU NO KAMI. Tokyo, Gohachi, Showa 55 [1980]. Orihon folding album (24 x 18.3 cm) in block-printed paper covers. Number 12 of a limited edition of 150 copies and is signed and sealed by Goto, certainly the most important historian of East Asian papermaking in..... 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
1968. SERIZAWA Keisuke. YOKUJO, Tokyo, Gallery Gohachi, Showa 43 [1968]. #38 of 100cc. 26.6 x 22.5 cm. Yellow paper over board covers. 10 small stencils in Serizawa's inimitable style of women bathing. Hand-stenciled and hand-colored by Serizawa, with his stenciled initials on the title page. In the original red cloth..... More
1969. Serizawa Keisuke 芹沢銈介. Serizawa Keisuke Tebikaejō 芹沢銈介手控帖. Showa 44 [1969]. Tokyo. Kyūryūdō 求龍堂, publisher. 28 x 26.5cm album with paper-covered boards is housed in a fabric-covered clamshell box 30.1 x 25.8cm with title stamped on box spine. Stored in a cardboard box 32 x 30.5cm with printed title label..... More
1944. SERIZAWA Keisuke 芹沢銈介, artist. SHIKIBA Ryûzaburô 式場隆三郎, author. MINGEI TO SEIKATSU 民芸と生活. Tôkyô, Shôwa 19 [1944]. Privately published by the author and printed in Tôkyô before the disastrous air raids to come. Bound Western-style, 26.8 x 19.0 cm., printed on over 400 pages of wonderful Japanese hand-made paper, with..... More
1982. SERIZAWA Keisuke, artist. KATAZOME RINBYÔ, 2 vols. Tôkyô, Gohachi. #134 of 230 copies. 2 folding albums, 18.2 x 15.0 cm., 81 wonderful colored stencil designs, formatted to a size and shape appropriate to matchbox covers. Serizawa again illustrates his skills in design. In perfect condition, in the original clasped..... More
1950. [PAPERMAKING] SERIZAWA Keisuke. 芹沢銈介 KAMI WO TSUKURU HITOTACHI. 紙を作る人たち Privately printed by Serizawa in Shôwa 25 [1950] in an edition of 50 copies. 30 x 28 cm. 7 pages, katazome prints in wrappers with a printed paper title label. Enclosed in a hand printed folding cover which is a work..... More
1985. [STENCIL PRINTING] SERIZAWA Keisuke; YOSHIDA Kogor. KIRISHITAN MONOGATARI. Tokyo, Gohachi, Showa 60 [1985]. Bound Western-style in wrappers, large 26.7 x 26.3 cm album of b+w stencil prints by Serizawa illustrating a brief text by Yoshida, a famous scholar and historian. Pictorial vignetttes of the 16th century introduction of Christianity..... More