19. Ōsaka Jyō Hakkei 大阪城八景 [8 Views of Osaka Castle] [Woodblock Album]. Oblong orihon folio 25 x 35 cm, in stiff silk-covered boards with a printed paper title label. Interspersed with Japanese text is a group of interesting original color woodcuts depicting traditional views of Osaka Castle during the..... More
Zuijin Guowen Jiaokeshu 最新国文教科書. circa 1904. Shanghai? [Commercial Press 商務印書館]. 22 x 13.5cm String bound fukuro toji with 59 cho, complete as such. A small Chinese schoolbook from the early 20th century. Chinese text with over 70 charming monochrome wood engravings that illustrate each lesson. Introduction and index in Chinese..... More
Sekino Junichirō 関野準一郎, Takei Takeo 武井 武雄 Hashimoto Okiie et al. Editor unknown. Yamataka Noboru 山高登, 橋本興家. n.p. n.d. String bound fukuro toji 20 x 15cm with title slip in Japanese on front cover. A handmade album with a delightful collection of 52 color and monochrome bookplates and stamps by..... More
1939. [PRINT ALBUM] Takeuchi SEIHO. SEIHO IPPINSHU. Kyoto & Tokyo, Unsodo, Showa 12 - 14 [1937 - 9]. 53.2 cm x 42.7 cm. The first series, complete with all 31 prints which were issued in two formats: (1) ten paper fascicules and also (2) tassel-bound by the publisher in brocade..... More
1921. [EHON] Ito Chuta. ASHURA CHO Dai Go-kan. Tokyo: Kokusui Shuppansha, (Arata Eisuke), Taisho 10 [1921]. 5 volumes complete. Bound in printed cloth over [25.6 x 21.4 cm] boards with thongs. Entitled (roughly) "Demon Sketchbook". The Asuras of the title are the warrior gods of Indian religion, condemned to constant..... More
1912. [EHON] Ota Saburo, artist. ASA GIRI Tokyo, Meiji 45 [1912]. 2 volumes, string-bound Japanese style, 19.1 x 13 cm. Each volume contains 35 color prints with a facing page of text. The prints appear to be a hybrid of lithography and color woodcut. [See Hillier's discussion of the book..... More
1971. [KATAZOME] SERIZAWA Keisuke. Katazome KOZARA MOYÔ HINAGATA. Tôkyô, Gohachi, Shôwa 46 [1971]. The publisher's own copy, #1 of 100 cc, with his bookplate done by Kawakami Sumio. Remarkable association copy. 28.7 x 25.6 cm. Printed on and bound into Japanese handmade paper. Lovely stencilled designs of small dish patterns..... More
1866. KAWAMURA UKOKU. NAGASAKI KIKO SHASEICHO 42 double page [image size 25.3 x 29.2 cm] paintings in sumi with slight color, painted by Ukoku in 1866. There are also 8 double page paintings in a different hand and one double page of calligraphy dated to Taisho 11 [1922]. Ukoku [1838-1906]..... More
1971. [MIMEOGRAPH/STENCIL ART] Wakayama Yasoji, poet and artist. Bochu Kanpon Sono ichi, GIN NO SHIMA Chizu Hensenki. Tokyo, Seienso. Showa 45 [1970]. One of 150 copies, signed by Wakayama. Small western-bound quarter leather and printed paper volume, illustrated by Wakayama in his own technique of stencil art, named kohan. 12.3..... More
1971. [MIMEOGRAPH/STENCIL ART] Wakayama Yasoji, poet and artist. Bo^chu^ Kanpon Sono ni, ESASHI NO SHIGEJIRO^, ANI. To^kyo^, Seienso^. 1971. #81 of 150 copies, signed by Wakayama. Small western-bound half leather and printed cloth volume, illustrated by Wakayama in his own technique of stencil art, named ko^han. 12 x 13 cm..... More
1961. [MIMEOGRAPH/STENCIL ART] Wakayama Yasoji, poet and artist. KAENAI KIMONO. Tokyo, Seienso. Showa 36 [1961]. One of 200 copies, signed by Wakayama. Small western-bound full leather volume of poems, illustrated by Wakayama in his own technique of stencil art, named kohan. 10.5 x 9 cm. There is an inset kohan..... More
1965. [MIMEOGRAPH/STENCIL ART] Wakayama Yasoji, artist. TENSAI NO MATSURI. Tokyo, Seienso. Showa 40 [1965]. Number 6 of 85 of 150cc. [special edition], signed by Wakayama. Western-bound volume of "fables for adults", illustrated by Wakayama in his own technique of stencil art, named kohan. 24.7 x 19 cm. There is an..... More
1975. Ōhashi Yōji. 大橋雍二 . Mamehon Hannyashingyō 豆本 般若心経. Tochigi-ken 栃木県 : Endō Publishing 遠藤印刷所 , Showa 50 [1975] . A 6 x 4cm Western style bound mamehon with fabric covered boards and printed title slip in Japanese text. This miniature book is housed in a clear plastic slipcase with..... More
1946. ONCHI Koshiro. Shikashu Anthology of Contemporary Japan NIHON NO HANA FLOWERS OF JAPAN. Tokyo: Hongakusha, Showa 21 [1946]. Another Hongakusha work, this one is edited by Onchi Koshiro, and many of the lovely woodcut textual illustrations are by him as well. Other artists include the important Creative Print movement..... More
1946. Onchi Kōshirō 恩地孝四郎, artist & MAEDA Sekibô, poet. Shinshō Fuji - Kashū 新頌富士 歌集 [New Praise, Fuji - Collection of Poetry], FUJI] Tokyo: Fugaku Honsha, Shôwa 21 [1946]. 28.7 x 20 cm. 2 full page color woodcuts designed by Onchi, 1 tipped-in page of printed calligraphy. Blue and white flexible..... More
1935. Onchi Kōshirō 恩地孝四郎. Onchi Koshiro Shibun-shû KISETSU-HYO 季節標. Tokyo: Aoi- Shobô. Showa 10 [1935]. This copy is #50 of only 50 deluxe copies from a total edition of 200. 3 full-page color illustrations by Onchi. Folio, 36 x 31 cm, printed on very heavy paper, bound in gilt-printed Japanese..... More
1947. ONCHI Koshiro, artist; Inoue Yasufumi, poet. Shishu UME. Fugaku Honsha, Showa 22 [1947]. #64 of 600cc, signed by Inoue, the author. 8vo, printed decorative wrappers, book designed by Onchi Koshiro, frontispiece a woodcut designed by Onchi, as well. [Onchi Raissonne, #281, "Portrait of a Poet (Inner Image)"]. In very..... More
1935. ONCHI Koshiro, editor. A set of SHOSO^ Magazine 30 volumes. Tokyo, Showa 10-19 [1935-44] Aoi Shobo. [700cc?]. 8vo. in size, wrappers. 30 volumes in magazine format of this, the premier journal in Japan dedicated to the book arts and graphics of its day, edited by the foremost artist and..... More
1942. ONCHI Koshiro. HAKUBUTSUSHI Zuihitsu Shashin. Tokyo, Genkosha, Showa 17 [1942], 1 of 1500cc, Cloth, printed in silver ink, 27.0 x 19.4 cm. Very unusual work by Onchi, combining his written thought on natural forms with reproductions of his photography (depicting plants, insects, animals). An interesting and scarce title, this..... More
1947. KAWAJI Ryuko, poet. ONCHI Koshiro, artist. MUI NO SEKKEI, Shishu. Tokyo, Fugaku Honsha, Showa 22 [1947]. Large 8vo., the book was designed by Onchi and illustrated by him as well. There is a wonderful abstract "essential portrait of the poet" in color woodcut by Onchi. Kawaji was the mentor..... More
1941. [PRINTMAKER'S SET]. SHOSO HANGACHO JURENSHU 9 vols. Tokyo: Aoi Shobô, 1941-3. Each volume 26.8 x 21.2 cm in printed wrappers. A complete set, 8 volumes are numbered 174 and the Oda Kazuma volume numbered 21. 250 copies. How this set was ever created on such exquisite paper during wartime..... More
1983. Sakazume Atsuo 坂爪厚生 (b. 1941). Safari Lando Mamanaranu Kokoro サファリランド - ままならぬ心 [Safari Land - Uncontrollable Heart] [1983]. Sheet size 47 x 37cm and image size 38 x 29.5cm. Numbered 6/30 and signed in pencil in the bottom margin. Black and white mezzotint depicting an iguana and more. Sakazume..... More
1933. SATO^ Haruo, author; HAZAMA Inosuke, artist. E-iri MIYOKO. Seikado^, 1933. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji, blind-patterned brown paper covers with a printed paper title label. 18 paginated bifold leaves and one unpaginated. Ltd. edition, number 442 of 500 copies. A b+w woodcut frontispiece of the author and 4 color woodcut plates..... More
1949. SEKINO Jun'ichirô, artist. KOJIKI EMAKI. Tôkyô, Sei-en-sô, Shôwa 24 [1949]. Printed "hors commerce" #78 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
1978. SEKINO Junichiro. NIHON NO KAIDO^ JAPANESE STREETS. Tokyo, 1978, Asahi Shimbunsha. #4 of 60 cc. Large square 4to., Red cloth covered boards, black leather spine, with red cloth-covered tied portfolio, all in clasped red clamshell box. The bibligunal text of the book describes Sekino's series, the portfolio contains 3..... More