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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.
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. -

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.
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Masterpieces of Japanese Puppetry. Sculptured Heads of the Bunraku Theater
by Seijiro, Saito
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Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collection Of Rare Japanese Color Prints The Property of Mr. Judson D. Metzgar, Of Moline, Illinois, To Be Sold At Unrestricted Public Sale, On May 15-16, 1919, At The American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, New York
by Metzgar, Judson D.
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The American Art Association, NY, 1919; 8vo, 118 pages; illustrated. Original 1919 auction catalogue for the historic sale of the private Japanese print collection of J.D. Metzgar (1869-1958), distinguished American scholar, collector, authority on Japanese color prints, and author of "Adventures in Japanese Prints" (Grabhorn Press,1943). Over 1,200 of Metzgar’s personal prints are listed here for sale, from such masters as Hiroshige, Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Moronobu, Kiyomasu, Shunsho, Buncho, Harunobu, Yeishi, Shigemasa, Shunyei (including the complete Chushingura series), and many other legendary and early artists. Twenty-three b&w illustration plates at the back containing 98 photos of selected works by Buncho, Shunyei, Yoshinobu, Koruisai, Tamagawa Shuncho, Yeishi, Kiyonaga, Harunobu, Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Katsuchika Taito, Kunisada, Hiroshige (over 40 of them), and numerous others, each photo identified by lot number. Metzgar’s copy, with some marginalia. Metzgar…
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Tsubasa Album De Reproductions 2 (Japanese Version)
by Clamp
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Kodansha, 2009. Paperback with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is in Japanese. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Very light scuffing along to top edges of the dust jacket. Small tear on the top right corner of the bottom black banner on the front cover. No markings on the inside of the book.Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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by MORIYAMA, Daido.
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Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2015. Original black and white Type-C print signed by Daido Moriyama in gold ink on the front of the image it is tipped in. First edition / First printing. Limited edition. Number 437 of 500 copies. Metallic laminated boards. Very fine. The 90th publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series.
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Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu
by Yukio Lippit
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EXTREMELY RARE first edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed by the authors. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking. A much-anticipated harbinger of spring, the cherry blossom is also exemplary of the Japanese artistic aesthetic? A delight in simple, natural beauty and an attentiveness to the changing seasons. This spring will mark the centennial of Japan's gift of three thousand cherry trees to Washington, DC, and this sumptuously illustrated catalogue is the companion to a celebratory exhibition at the National Gallery of Art featuring the work of Ito Jakuchu.Jakuchu (1716–1800), a wealthy wholesaler and talented painter, is, in Japan, the most recognized artist of the premodern era. His thirty-scroll set of bird-and-flower paintings titled Colorful Realm of Living Beings is a renowned cultural treasure, one of the most beautiful and skilled examples of how the natural world is depicted…
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Masterpieces of Japanese Puppetry. Sculptured Heads of the Bunraku Theater
by Seijiro, Saito
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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.
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Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collection Of Rare Japanese Color Prints The Property of Mr. Judson D. Metzgar, Of Moline, Illinois, To Be Sold At Unrestricted Public Sale, On May 15-16, 1919, At The American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, New York
by Metzgar, Judson D.
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The American Art Association, NY, 1919; 8vo, 118 pages; illustrated. Original 1919 auction catalogue for the historic sale of the private Japanese print collection of J.D. Metzgar (1869-1958), distinguished American scholar, collector, authority on Japanese color prints, and author of "Adventures in Japanese Prints" (Grabhorn Press,1943). Over 1,200 of Metzgar’s personal prints are listed here for sale, from such masters as Hiroshige, Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Moronobu, Kiyomasu, Shunsho, Buncho, Harunobu, Yeishi, Shigemasa, Shunyei (including the complete Chushingura series), and many other legendary and early artists. Twenty-three b&w illustration plates at the back containing 98 photos of selected works by Buncho, Shunyei, Yoshinobu, Koruisai, Tamagawa Shuncho, Yeishi, Kiyonaga, Harunobu, Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Katsuchika Taito, Kunisada, Hiroshige (over 40 of them), and numerous others, each photo identified by lot number. Metzgar’s copy, with some marginalia. Metzgar…
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Tsubasa Album De Reproductions 2 (Japanese Version)
by Clamp
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Kodansha, 2009. Paperback with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is in Japanese. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Very light scuffing along to top edges of the dust jacket. Small tear on the top right corner of the bottom black banner on the front cover. No markings on the inside of the book.Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2015. Original black and white Type-C print signed by Daido Moriyama in gold ink on the front of the image it is tipped in. First edition / First printing. Limited edition. Number 437 of 500 copies. Metallic laminated boards. Very fine. The 90th publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series.
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Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu
by Yukio Lippit
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EXTREMELY RARE first edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed by the authors. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking. A much-anticipated harbinger of spring, the cherry blossom is also exemplary of the Japanese artistic aesthetic? A delight in simple, natural beauty and an attentiveness to the changing seasons. This spring will mark the centennial of Japan's gift of three thousand cherry trees to Washington, DC, and this sumptuously illustrated catalogue is the companion to a celebratory exhibition at the National Gallery of Art featuring the work of Ito Jakuchu.Jakuchu (1716–1800), a wealthy wholesaler and talented painter, is, in Japan, the most recognized artist of the premodern era. His thirty-scroll set of bird-and-flower paintings titled Colorful Realm of Living Beings is a renowned cultural treasure, one of the most beautiful and skilled examples of how the natural world is depicted…
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The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture
by Lieberman, William S. [Introduction]
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New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 240 x 210 mm), 116 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Catalogue for a U.S. traveling exhibition of 46 Japanese artists. Short bios of each artist, along with black-and-white illustrations of their works. The catalogue also features 13 color illustrations at the beginning of the book. Introduction by the curator, William S. Lieberman. CONDITION: Light edge wear and soiling to wrappers, toning to page edges. Very Good.
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Sho Fukumoto Sketchbook 1986: Leda (Boxed Set)
by Sho Fukumoto
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N. Nomura & Co., Ltd., 1986. Book. Like New. Boxed Set. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A hardcover book and a softcover book in a cloth-covered box, all in like-new condition. Clamshell box is covered in natural-covered linen with brown lettering to spine and brown facsimile signature on top. Hardcover with three-quarter charcoal-gray cloth with blue marbled (faux) boards; no text other than a tipped-in plate with title, etc. in English; pages are facsimile reproductions of the sketched art--b&w and color of Leda and Swan; no title on binding. Softcover is staplebound with blue cardstock cover with title etc. in English on front; approx. 27 pages; b&w photo frontispiece of artist; 7 plates of art; text in Japanese. Books are about 9-1/2" by 6-1/4". Box is 10-1/2" by 6-3/4"..
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Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers
by Hiroshige, Ando; introduction by Cynthea J. Bogel; commentaries on the plates by Israel Goldman; poetry translated by Alfred H. Marks
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NY: Braziller, 1988. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Braziller, 1988, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 14 1/2", 192pp., illustrated with 91 full color plates. Fine in near fine. price clipped dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. Folio.
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Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool.
by NARA, Yoshitomo
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New York: Asia Society Museum / Harry N. Abrams: 2010. First edition / First printing. Illustrated laminated boards in die-cut illustrated slipcase. Very fine in a very fine slipcase.
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Traditional Japanese Furniture: A Definitive Guide
by Kazuko Koizumi
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Kodansha International, 1986. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine DJ. Minor shelf and handling wear to DJ. Else Fine. Photo is of the copy at Barbed Wire Books.
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Tsubasa Album De Reproductions 2 (Japanese Version)
by Clamp
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Kodansha, 2009. Paperback with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is in Japanese. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Very light scuffing along to top edges of the dust jacket. Small tear on the top right corner of the bottom black banner on the front cover. No markings on the inside of the book.Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints From The Anne Van Biema Collection
by Ann Yonemura; Donald Keene; Andrew Gerstle; Elizabeth De Sabato Swinton; Joshua S. Mostow
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Both the book and dj are in 'as new' condition. It has . 10 unpaginated pages followed by 362 numbered pages. It was published to coincide with the exibition of the same name. A beautiful book with well over 100 color illustrations and even more in b&w. The book includes a series of essays on the historic, economic, and cultural environment of Edo period Japan and the collections focus on early Kabuki actor prints, including many by the artists Toyokuni and Kuniyoshi).Book will be priority mailed to any domestic address. International sale may incur additional charges.
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Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden
by Marc P. Jiro Takei; Keane
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Book cover like new, slight wear at end caps - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.Jacket like new.
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The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly 1000 years ago, making it the oldest work on Japanese gardening; in fact, the oldest book on gardening in the world! In this edition of the Sakuteiki, the authors provide both an English-language translation of this classic work; and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening. A Japanese court noble wrote the Sakuteiki during the Heian period (794-1184). During this critical era in Japanese history cultural influences on poetry, clothing-and gardening-that had been imported from China and Korea over the previous centuries were reexamined and reinterpreted into their unique Japanese forms. The Sakuteiki contains the first systematic record of this new… Read More
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Nihonga: Nihonga - Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting, 1868-1968
by Ellen P. Conant
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The Saint Louis Art Museum / The Japan Foundation, 1995. Good condition. Spine is creased and has minor soiling. Covers show shelf and handling wear with abrasion, light soiling, small creases, and worn corners. Interior pages show faint age-related toning around edges and two small black marks at the top of pgs 180-181. A solid copy. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
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Stories & Sketches
by Lafcadio Hearn , Preface, Compiled with Notes by R. Tanabe, Professor in the Peeresses School, Frontispiece with Color with Tissue Guard that has Yellowed,some fox & small Sticker blank endpapers
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Hokuseido, Tokyo Japan, 1925. HBNODJ, 1925, 1st edition, 1st Issue,Olive Green Embossed decorated Cloth with Paper Label Lettered in Black,VG/VG, AS-IS, NODJ, Cover minor Rub, Wear & Small Nick & tiny Corner Chip, Spine only Slightly Sunned, 276 pgs + notes AD, Interior Minor Wear, Slight Fox , Some pgs show slight Yellowing, . First Edition. Hard Cover.
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