Collection J. Garié. Objets D'Art Et Peintures Du Japon Et De La Chine Dont La Vente Aura Lieu Du Lundi 5 Mars Au Samedi 10 Mars 1906 Inclus à L'Hotel Drouot, Salle No 7. -

Tokyo: Executive Committee of the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1990. Book. Fine. Paperbound. printed paper wraps, paperbound with dust jacket, gilt wraps, 159 pages, illustrated, (numerous full color illustrations, Includes index. Japanese books from the earliest to the present. Illustrations include, scrolls, Buddist texts, illuatrated books, scientific works, novels. a bright copy. a very large folio measuring 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches, ( 36.5 x 26 cm) will require extra post. Size: Foilio, (37 cm.).

Rosemary Bandini, London, 1999, Fine Hardcover / Near Fine Dustjacket, 174 pages, 8.75" x 11.25", slight edgewear on dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight. Collector Harriet Szechenyi concentrated on collecting "netsuke" of animals and mythical beings.

Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, Publisher. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1586851136; 013707 . Black covered boards with slight edge wear. DJ is more worn, and has a few small tears along the edges, and one tear on the spin, about 1.25" up from the bottom. Pages are all clean and the binding is still tight and straight. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 256 p. .

Tokyo: Shokokusha, 1955 First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few short tears to the edges. Attractive clean copy. Text is in English and Japanese.

A beautiful book. Text in English with 427 illustrations - the vast majority in full color and many full page. Both Book and unclipped dj are in "as new" condition.

Book will be priority mailed to any domestic address.

Rutland, Vermont/Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1958. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with only light traces of wear. The jacket is virtually complete, a small chip out of the top of the spine. Otherwise very good. Completely clean inside and out. This is a limited edition of 375 numbered copies. This collection of 32 sculptured heads from Bunraku theater represents the best work of its kind. All 32 puppet heads reproduced in full-page color plates and full catalog entries. Additionally there are twelve black & white photographs of more heads. And 26 figures in the text. Foreword by Roy Andrew Miller who also translated this edition. 14.5" high X 10" wide, 91 pages. A beautiful production. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Limited/Numbered Edition of 375 Copies. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

St Louis City Art Museum, 1995-11-01. First Edition Paperback. Paperback. Very Good. 11x9x1. Unmarked. Text appears to be free of highlighting, underlining or writing. Softcover shows some edge and shelf wear from normal use. No rips, tears or stains. First edition paperback, First Printing, Full Print Line Displayed. A currently OOP (out of print), uncommon, or hard to find book. Ships in box, quickly and with care.

1956. Hard cover in original cloth. Text in Japanese. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 3/4", 9 pp. text in Japanese, 54 one sided sheets of plates on heavy satin stock, plus 2 sheets of 27 plates of signatures and seals used by Sesshu. Plates have captions in English. Red cloth with black titles and designs. Some soiling and fade to the cloth, minor wear at the tips and spine ends. Very good. Fine internally. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio.

Very good Japanese woodblock print by Utagawa Kunisada II
Depicting a rather unusual scene from a Kabuki play with two actors holding up another actor as though he were a puppet in a Bunraku play.
Nakamura Fukusuke I is paraded like a Puppet of Yaoya Hanbei by two supporting actors Arashi Kangoro I as Yoshida Kango (right), and Nakamura Kangoro I as Yoshida Kanta (left).
The play is Na Nomi Yaoya Ryori no Futsutsuka, from Wakaki no Ume Satomi no Yatsufusa.
Published by Hayashiya Shogoro in Tokyo in Ansei 4 of the Edo Era (1857).
Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print maker and head of the Utagawa school. He worked in many genres including theatre actors (yakusha-e), beauty pictures (bijinga), erotica (shunga), literary scenes. He never achieved the level of success of his master.
Good impression with deep colour and rich black, slight age toning to the paper.
On verso, four adhesive stains to the bottom and top edges from a previous mount easily covered if matted. Small mark in… Read More

Stated First Edition.
Book cover like new - pages clean and unmarked, slight tanning at edges – spine like new.
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The Tokaido -- the name of this highway today epitomizes a golden age of Japan's past. This "Eastern Sea Road", which connected the emperor's capital in Kyoto and the seat of the shogun's administration in Edo (now Tokyo) was heavily traveled in all seasons; the numerous prints and guidebooks about the Tokaido represent the time of prosperity and peace when even the average citizen could undertake the adventure of travel along this highway. It was Hiroshige who immortalized the Tokaido. In the famous prints of the fifty-three stages reproduced in this book, this master artist of the ukiyo-e print captured the beauty, romance, adventure, mystery, and joy - all the myriad and glowing facets of the people and places, in all seasons and times of day, of the Tokaido highway. Hiroshige's… Read More