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
1970. [CREATIVE PRINT MOVEMENT] KANAMORI Yoshio. KOZAN. Nihon Aishokai, Shôwa 45, signed by Kanamori. Number 132 of 150 copies. Huge western bound folio, 45.9 x 31.7 cm. Each of the 15 color woodblock illustrations is double page - and are in consequence remarkably large and therefore difficult to print. Quite..... More
1939. SEIHÔ Takeuchi. [PRINT ALBUM] Takeuchi SEIHÔ. SEIHÔ IPPINSHÛ. 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..... More
1921. [EHON] Itô Chûta. ASHURA CHÔ 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] Ôta Saburô, 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
1981. Kanamori Yoshio 金守世士夫, artist and Uruma Motomi 漆間元三, writer. Toyama no Matsuri とやまの祭り. Shōwa 昭和 56 [1981]. Published by Kosankai 湖山会. n.p. 100 of a limited edition of 150 copies. Single volume 14.5 x 23cm bound fukuro toji housed in a portfolio 14.5 x 23.5cm with a printed title..... 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 28 of only 50 copies of this lovely book bound in orihon folding album style in stiff washi-covered boards..... 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
1948. KAWAI Kijiro^, artist. Kappaban ABC. Sei-enso^, Sho^wa 23 [1948] 18.0 x 15.0 cm. Stencil-printed covers in a stencil-printed dustwrapper. Number 22 of the deluxe edition of 30cc [of 100cc total]. A wonderful little ABCDEry done in kappaban stencil in English. A lovely production, particularly unusual in early postWar Japan..... More
1866. KAWAMURA UKOKU. NAGASAKI KIKÔ 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 Yasôji, poet and artist. Bôchû 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. Bôchû Kanpon Sono ni, ESASHI NO SHIGEJIRÔ, ANI. Tôkyô, Seiensô. 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 kôhan. 12 x 13 cm..... More
1961. [MIMEOGRAPH/STENCIL ART] Wakayama Yasôji, 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 Yasôji, 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
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1977. Okamura Kichiemon 岡村吉右衛門 . Okushima Tōzan 奥嶋唐棧. Sansei Kōgei 三彩工芸 [Sansei Arts and Crafts]. Osaka. Shōwa 52 [1977]. A limited edition of 200 copies. 27 x 22.5 single volume opens Japanese style and is housed in a chitsu with clasps 27 x 23.5cm. In a cardboard box 29 x...... More
1958. Okamura Kichiemon 岡村吉右衛門. Nōtō Gōshū Bandani 農陶江川伴谷. Showa 33年[1958]. Folio of 6 stencil prints 33.5 x 28cm on Japanese paper plus one stenciled title page in a case 35 x 30cm. Limited edition of 100. Original stencils in dark blue, medium blue and yellow in the traditional mingei..... More
1942. ONCHI Kôshiro. 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
1935. ONCHI Koshiro. Onchi Koshiro Shibun-shû KISETSU-HYÔ. Tokyo: Aoi- Shobo. 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 paper over..... More
1946. ONCHI Koshiro. Shikashû 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
1947. ONCHI Kôshiro, artist; Inoue Yasufumi, poet. Shishû 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 Koshirô, editor. A set of SHOSÔ Magazine (all but issue 79) 30 volumes. Tokyo, Showa 10-19 [1935-44] Aoi Shobo. [700cc?]. 8vo. in size, wrappers. This set consists of all but one volume of the 31 in magazine format of this, the premier journal dedicated to the book arts..... More
1946. ONCHI Koshiro, artist & MAEDA Sekibo, poet. Kashu SHINSHO^ FUJI [Collection of Poetry: NEW PRAISE, FUJI] Tokyo: Fugaku Honsha, Showa 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 covers, in a dustwrapper depicting..... More
1947. KAWAJI Ryûkô, poet. ONCHI Koshiro, artist. MUI NO SEKKEI, Shishû. 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