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England: Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Small amount of foxing on one preliminary page other wise spotless. Dust Jacket in clear mylar cover.
Shunga=Japanese Pillow Book by Hokusia, Katshushika (1760-1840)
by Hokusia, Katshushika (1760-1840)
Shunga=Japanese Pillow Book
by Hokusia, Katshushika (1760-1840)
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Np/np/nd. Oblong Quarto. Accordion fold binding with 11 prints of couples making love in a variety of positions and a variety of locations. Each print is backed by thicker paper with reinforced edges. Blue brocade covers and decorated endpapers. A Japanese "enpon" album of "shunga" erotic woodblock prints, each depicting a male/female couple in traditional Japanese dress. The definitive study of shunga in the Edo period is: Japanese Erotic Fantasies; Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005 p. 157-158). Silk has wear around the edges, a few small early wormhole repairs to outer margins not affecting illustrations, some finger soiling.
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- Keywords Edo Period, Shunga; Katushika Hokusai (1760-1840); Japanese Marriage Book;
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Japanese Military and Civil Swords and Dirks
by Fuller Richard; Gregory Ron
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- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First printing
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781853107153 / 1853107158
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Wellington, New Zealand
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$250.00
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NOH-KA GABI
by [COSTUME DESIGNS - NOH THEATER]
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- Used
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Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States
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19. [COSTUME DESIGNS - NOH THEATER] NOH-KA GABI. Tokyo & Kyoto: Unsodo, n.d. [Showa 9, 1934]. Large brocade covered wooden box of 102 (of 100 - there are 2 extra plates not called for in the contents pages) plates of Noh costumes, patterns, masks, etc. An impressive mixture of printing techniques - color woodcut, offset, color collotype and various hybrids thereof. Sheet size: 29 x 37 cm. One of the wonderful folios for which Unsodo was famous between the wars. Very good, complete, very unusual, text in Japanese.
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SAIGOKU SAN-JU^-SAN-SHO JUNREI EMAKI
by [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] NAKAZAWA Hiromitsu, artist
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Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States
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1946. [SKETCH TOUR GENRE] NAKAZAWA Hiromitsu, artist. SAIGOKU SAN-JU^-SAN-SHO JUNREI EMAKI. Kyoto, Kanao Bun'endo^, publisher. Sho^wa 21 [1946]. Oblong folio of o^ban size woodblock prints after designs by Hiromitsu, detailing the famous pilgrimage sites (and sights) in western Japan. The blocks were cut by Okada Seijiro^ and the printers were Nishimura Kumakichi and Takagi Kiyomitsu. This portfolio project was initially completed and printed in 1925. This edition, printed from the same blocks at the very end of Kanao's life, was obviously issued as a companion piece to the THIRTY-SIX VIEWS OF OSAKA, which Kanao also published in 1946. The colors of the original 1925 edition were quite a bit more light and "crumbly" than the bolder colors used in this printing, which accord with that used in the Osaka series. (I personally like this bolder approach to Hiromitsu's work.) There are eleven color woodblock printed preliminary pages, a table of contents page, 37 pilgrimage views, a final portrait of…
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Waro Kishi: Works and Projects.
by KISHI, Waro. With an essay by Masao Furuyama
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- first
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- As New
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- Fine
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- First edition / First printing.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9784887061903 / 4887061900
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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$350.00
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Milan: Electa Architecture, 2005. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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Japanese Prints: A Collection of Hanga by Shiko Munakata. SIGNED.
by Munakata, Shiko
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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Purple silk covered boards with gilt lettering to front; black title to spine & gilt decoration to rear. Includes a ten foot x 16.5 inch folded print entitled Daisekai no Saku "Ken" Kamigami Yori Jinrui E. Jacket has two closed tears; other wise a fine copy in a vibrant purple cloth by Wada Book Binding, Tokyo. Large (15x30 cm) bold brush & ink signature by Munakata to front free fly. Number 2813 of only 3000 copies in the original Japanese.; Folio 30x43 cm; 222 pages; Signed by Artist; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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NOH-KA GABI
by [COSTUME DESIGNS - NOH THEATER]
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- Condition
- Used
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- Unknown
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Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States
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19. [COSTUME DESIGNS - NOH THEATER] NOH-KA GABI. Tokyo & Kyoto: Unsodo, n.d. [Showa 9, 1934]. Large brocade covered wooden box of 102 (of 100 - there are 2 extra plates not called for in the contents pages) plates of Noh costumes, patterns, masks, etc. An impressive mixture of printing techniques - color woodcut, offset, color collotype and various hybrids thereof. Sheet size: 29 x 37 cm. One of the wonderful folios for which Unsodo was famous between the wars. Very good, complete, very unusual, text in Japanese.
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SAIGOKU SAN-JU^-SAN-SHO JUNREI EMAKI
by [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] NAKAZAWA Hiromitsu, artist
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- Condition
- Used
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- Unknown
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Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States
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1946. [SKETCH TOUR GENRE] NAKAZAWA Hiromitsu, artist. SAIGOKU SAN-JU^-SAN-SHO JUNREI EMAKI. Kyoto, Kanao Bun'endo^, publisher. Sho^wa 21 [1946]. Oblong folio of o^ban size woodblock prints after designs by Hiromitsu, detailing the famous pilgrimage sites (and sights) in western Japan. The blocks were cut by Okada Seijiro^ and the printers were Nishimura Kumakichi and Takagi Kiyomitsu. This portfolio project was initially completed and printed in 1925. This edition, printed from the same blocks at the very end of Kanao's life, was obviously issued as a companion piece to the THIRTY-SIX VIEWS OF OSAKA, which Kanao also published in 1946. The colors of the original 1925 edition were quite a bit more light and "crumbly" than the bolder colors used in this printing, which accord with that used in the Osaka series. (I personally like this bolder approach to Hiromitsu's work.) There are eleven color woodblock printed preliminary pages, a table of contents page, 37 pilgrimage views, a final portrait of…
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Japanese Prints: A Collection of Hanga by Shiko Munakata. SIGNED.
by Munakata, Shiko
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- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
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- First Edition
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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$4,720.00
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Purple silk covered boards with gilt lettering to front; black title to spine & gilt decoration to rear. Includes a ten foot x 16.5 inch folded print entitled Daisekai no Saku "Ken" Kamigami Yori Jinrui E. Jacket has two closed tears; other wise a fine copy in a vibrant purple cloth by Wada Book Binding, Tokyo. Large (15x30 cm) bold brush & ink signature by Munakata to front free fly. Number 2813 of only 3000 copies in the original Japanese.; Folio 30x43 cm; 222 pages; Signed by Artist; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Soka Hyakushu: (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers)
by Bairei Kono
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- Used - Very Good
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Complete set of Bairei Kono's Soka Hyakushu or Kusabana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada Unsodo, 1901-1904.231 color woodcut plates bound in 4 volumes, stored in a custom green-cloth slip-case. The woodblock plates printed with natural vegetable dyes for true-to-life colors.
Vol. 1: 58 plates, Vol. 2: 58 plates
Supplements: Vol. 3: 60 plates, Vol. 4: 55 plates.
Condition: pale-blue paper covers slightly worn and grubby, but interior fresh and vibrant. First page in each volume with a large red illegible stamp (two on text pages, two on flower plates). A few plates with white flowers oxidized.
Bairei Kono (1844-1895) was a Japanese painter, book illustrator and art teacher famous for his botanicals and kacho-e (flower and bird) paintings.
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Paper Sculpture 2
by Taniuchi, Tsuneo
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- as new
- Paperback
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- first
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- As New
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- 1st
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9784768300039 / 4768300030
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Savannah, Georgia, United States
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Text and instructions in Japanese and English. Dramatic color and black and white photo illustrations and diagrams, followed by pattern pages that can be copied or used as is. 79 pages. Published in Tokyo in 1987. First edition, signed by author.
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Sho Fukumoto Sketchbook 1986: Leda (Boxed Set)
by Sho Fukumoto
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- Hardcover
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- Like New
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- No Jacket
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- Hardcover
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Prescott, Arizona, United States
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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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Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden
by Marc P. Jiro Takei; Keane
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780804832946 / 0804832943
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Martinez, California, United States
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$90.00
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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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Shishi and Other Netsuke: The Collection of Harriet Szechenyi
by Rosemary Bandini
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Fine
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780953573301 / 0953573303
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Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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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.
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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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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780807611999 / 0807611999
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Granville, New York, United States
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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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$90.00
Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool.
by NARA, Yoshitomo
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
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- As New
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- First edition / First printing.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780810994140 / 0810994143
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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$100.00
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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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$100.00
Traditional Japanese Furniture: A Definitive Guide
by Kazuko Koizumi
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780870117220 / 087011722X
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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$110.00
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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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- Paperback
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- Used- Fine
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9784063647983 / 4063647986
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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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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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First
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- Hardcover
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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$120.00
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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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Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan 1580s-1680s
by LILLEHOJ, Elizabeth
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near fine
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- near fine
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9789004206120 / 9004206124
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BATH, United Kingdom
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$101.47
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Leiden: Brill, 2011. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/near fine. Vol 2 in the series, Japanese Visual Culture. Tall 8vo. (25.5cm). Boards, lettered title to cover. In unclipped dust jacket. pp. 296. W/ 98 colour plates. Some faint edgewear to jacket, minor signs of use, a very sound, almost as new copy.
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The Hokusai Sketchbooks
by James A. Michener
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- Used - Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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Martinez, California, United States
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$125.00
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Stated First Edition.Book cover like new, slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear, price-clipped. Cardboard slipcase near new, light soil/shelf wear.
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From flyleaf: Between the years 1814 and 1878 there was published in Japan a series of woodblock printed volumes entitled Hokusai Manga, or Hokusai's Sketches from Life, which was destined to be one of the most popular art publications ever issued anywhere in the world. With its rich tapestry of life as it was lived in the boisterous Tokyo of the day and its magical evocation of the beauties of the Japanese countryside, it was an immediate best-seller in Japan, and then, upon the West's discovery of Japanese art, went on to win the hearts of people everywhere. It is from this amazing book, amazing both in execution and breadth of scope, that the… Read More
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