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Japanese Art Books & Ephemera
SHIN-BIJUTSUKAI The New Monthly Magazine Of Various Designs By The Famous Artists Of Today
by Furuya Korin / Yamada Naosaburo (ed)
Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, 1903. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Furuya Korin. Exceptionally scarce Japanese design publication from the early 20th century. This issue from 1903, the third year of publication, features 22 full-page designs, all but one printed in colour. One page partially uncut. Front cover (Japanese script) is missing. English language cover has (filing?) label attached. Stock is toned and occasionally lightly marked, but in general...
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£300.00
SHIN-BIJUTSUKAI The New Monthly Magazine Of Various Designs By The Famous Artists Of Today
by Furuya Korin / Yamada Naosaburo (ed)
Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, 1902. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Furuya Korin. Exceptionally scarce Japanese design publication from the early 20th century. This issue from August 1902, the second year of publication, features 24 full-page designs, most in colour and some with additional silver overprinting. Front cover (Japanese script) is worn and marked. English language cover has (filing?) label attached and is dulled and stained. Stock is...
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£400.00
Waro Kishi: Works and Projects.
by KISHI, Waro. With an essay by Masao Furuyama
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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$350.00
Okimono: Japanese Porcelain Figures from the Edo Period
by Jorge Welsh (ed.); and Jörg, Professor Christiaan (introductory article)
Jorge Welsh Research and Publishing, 2022 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover.; 23.5 x 29.7 cm.; 1.9 Kg.; 256 pages with 229 colour and 4 black & white illustrations.; Limited edition of 400 copies.; Exibition catalogue dedicated to the theme of Japanese porcelain in the form of human and animal figures, mostly produced for the export market during the second half of the 17th and 18th centuries. The animals represented are usually found amongst Japanese iconography, whilst the...
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€140.00
New Blades (Arami meizukushi) 新刃銘盡 (あらみめいずくし)
by HAKURYUSHI, Kanda
1721 Japanese Sword Katana Arami Meizukushi Illustrated Handwritten New Blades
An interesting Edo and Meiji woodblock-print of 'New Blades.' This collection is the stamping of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Edo period and is equivalent to the sword of the Meiji era and later called "modern sword.". It follows up on the older collections of blade writings which summarized the accumulated knowledge of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Muromachi period. After the... Read more about this item
An interesting Edo and Meiji woodblock-print of 'New Blades.' This collection is the stamping of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Edo period and is equivalent to the sword of the Meiji era and later called "modern sword.". It follows up on the older collections of blade writings which summarized the accumulated knowledge of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Muromachi period. After the... Read more about this item
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$750.00
Japanese Fragments.
by Osborn, Captain Sherard
Osborn, Captain SherardJapanese Fragments, With Facsimiles of Illustrations by Artists of Yedo.
London, 1861 First Edition. Publisher Bradbury and Evans. Octavo. Pp. 139. Fine condition in modern full calf with extensive gilding to covers and spine. Complete with all 27 illustrations: Six full-page colored plates, Eleven full-page B&W woodblock plates, and Ten B&W woodblock prints within the text. The text is flawless, no inscriptions, spotting, or tears, and is clean, bright and tight. The bindings... Read more about this item
London, 1861 First Edition. Publisher Bradbury and Evans. Octavo. Pp. 139. Fine condition in modern full calf with extensive gilding to covers and spine. Complete with all 27 illustrations: Six full-page colored plates, Eleven full-page B&W woodblock plates, and Ten B&W woodblock prints within the text. The text is flawless, no inscriptions, spotting, or tears, and is clean, bright and tight. The bindings... Read more about this item
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$875.00
Japanese Export Laquer 1580-1850
by Impey, Oliver R.; Jörg, Christiaan
Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam, 2005 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket in slipcase); 25.5 x 33 cm; 3.023 Kg; 384 pages with 650 illustrations mainly in colour. Includes ribbon bookmark; New book with minor signs of shelf wear o the slipcase.; Japanese Laquer ranks among the most beautiful crafts produced in Asia for Western markets and had a profound influence on European art and decoration. The quantities shipped from Japan in the period 1580-1850 and...
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€450.00
Eikoh Hosoe: Masters of Photography.
by HOSOE, Eikoh. With an essay by Mark Holborn
Koln: Konemann Verlag / Aperture, 1999. Signed by the legendary photographer Eikoh Hosoe and dated 9.26.05 on the half title page. First Konemann edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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$250.00
Ko-Sometsuke (two volume set in slipcase with carton box)
by Kawahara, Masahiko
Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd., Japan, 1977 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Japanese and English text.; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued) in slipcase with carton box.; 23 x 32 cm; 3.5 Kg; Colour illustrations throughout, each with caption in Japanese and English.; Used with signs of wear on the card box. Signs of wear on the hardcover cloth and slipcase. The characters on the spine of the slipcase spine and also on the spines of the hardcover cloth are faded. Interior in very good condition.;...
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€1050.00
The Art of the Japanese Book (2 VOLUMES)
by Hillier, Jack
Sotheby's Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 1987 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; 2 Hardcover VOLUMES (with dust jackets) in slipcase.; 24.6 x 33.5 cm; 6.9 Kg; 1132 pages with colour and black and white illustrations throughout.; VOLUME I: 3.681 Kg, 608 pages; VOLUME II: 3.236 Kg, from page 609 to 1132.; Minor signs of wear on the slipcase and dust jackets. Interior as new.; It is surprising that so little of the great heritage of Japanese art in book form has been...
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€250.00
Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection (COMPLETE 3 VOLUMES)
by Hillier, Jack
Sotheby Parke Bernet Publication LTD, New Jersey and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, New York, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (3 volumes with dust jacket in slipcase). Top edges gilt.; 34 x 25.5 cm.; 8.3 Kg.; 1034 pages with black and white and a few colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jackets and slipcase. Interior in very good condition.; Limited edition of 2,000 copies of which this is 793.; Among the arts of Japan, the colour print continues to...
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€300.00
Satsuma: Masterpieces from the world's important collections (limited edition with carton box)
by Lawrence, Louis
Dauphin Publishing Limited, London in co-operation with Spink & Son Ltd., 1991 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Japanese text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket) with carton box; 23.5 x 30 cm; 1.750 Kg; 220 pages with colour illustrations. Includes fold outs of some of the pieces.; May show signs of long time storage and handling, namely the card box.; Satsuma is probably one of the best know names in the complex field of Japanese ceramics: yet surprisingly little has been published on...
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€90.00
Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
by Trede, Melanie and Bichler, Lorenz
Taschen GmbH, Koln, 2010 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. English text; Japanese binding in hardcover case with two clasps.; 26.2 x 31.5 cm, 2 Kg, 272 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear on the hardcover case. Due to use the binding is slightly curved on the right side first page of the binding. Very good copy.; Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world" ukiyo-e was a...
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€200.00
ISSEY MIYAKE
by MIYAKE, Issey; KITAMURA, Midori; KOIKE, Kazuko
Köln: Taschen, 2016. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Near fine. Lrg sq 4to. (30.5 x 30.5cm). pp. 511. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Follows Miyake from the very earliest days of his career, before he had established the Miyake Design Studio. Kitamura draws on more than 40 years of collaborative work with Miyake, to create an encyclopaedic reference to his materials and technical innovations, through the A Piece of Cloth concept, Body Series of the 1980s, Miyake Pleats series, and such...
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£216.00
Figure Prints of Old Japan; A Pictorial Pageant Of Actors & Courtesans Of The Eighteenth Century
by Harold Stern
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. very good/very good. Book Club of California, 1959. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition of only 400.52 colored or tinted plates. Introduction by Harold Stern. Illustrated from original prints in the collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Reproductions printed recto only. Includes prints by Harunobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, Sharaku, Utamaro, Kaigetsudo, et al. Bright, clean and...
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$225.00
![Nogaku Komenshu: Onshi Kyoto Hakubutsukan Tokuubetsu Tenkan [Old Portrait Masks of the Noh Drama]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/153/732/1202732153.0.b.jpg)
Nogaku Komenshu: Onshi Kyoto Hakubutsukan Tokuubetsu Tenkan [Old Portrait Masks of the Noh Drama]
Folio. Unpag. full-page plates (3 color with tissue guards). Japanese text. Pictorial boards with title on attached paper label, faded, lightly stained green cloth slipcase with bone clasps. Extra shipping and insurance required for this item.
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$425.00
Sights and Scenes in Fair Japan.
by [OGAWA KAZUMASA]
Tokyo: Imperial Government Railways.. (circa1910).. 50 delicate hand coloured collotype plates on high quality stiff card each captioned in English, presented in Japanese embroidered silk covered boards with tassle ties, All edges gilt., patterned gilt endpapers.The hinges of each image have been professionally repaired with Japanese paper and wheat starch paste. Neat pencilled annotations lower corners, leaves clean and bright. 26 x 38cm. This beautiful album proved very popular and was reprinted a...
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A$2500.00
Shimogakari Noh Chant Collections shimogakarishuuitaiseiutai下掛拾遺大成謡（したかけしゅういたいせいうたい）
by Unknown
1691 Japanese Handwritten Noh Play Theater Mask Demons Warrior Japan Shimogakari
An interesting Edo woodblock-print of 'Noh Chant Collections' from the early 17th century. Noh chants were adopted from Buddhist prayers and went with the musical background of Noh plays, which to this day is one of the most important performing arts in Japan. Noh plays borrowed from other arts with masks, music, and even structure. A normal Noh piece has five plays, god, warrior, woman, living person, and demon, which are... Read more about this item
An interesting Edo woodblock-print of 'Noh Chant Collections' from the early 17th century. Noh chants were adopted from Buddhist prayers and went with the musical background of Noh plays, which to this day is one of the most important performing arts in Japan. Noh plays borrowed from other arts with masks, music, and even structure. A normal Noh piece has five plays, god, warrior, woman, living person, and demon, which are... Read more about this item
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$750.00
Keika Hyakugiku
by Keika Hasegawa
Rare complete copy of Keika Hasegawa's Keika Hyakugiku (100 chrysanthemums by Keika)(The British Museum only has Volumes 1 and 2, the Smithsonian only 2 and 3.)75 colour woodblock prints (all published), including eight double-page, from this seminal book on the cultivation of chrysanthemums. Volumes 1 and 2 published in July 1893 and Volume 3 published in December 1903. Chrysanthemum cultivation came to Japan from China in the 8th century and the flower was later adopted as the Emperor's crest. Over the...
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$7000.00
Nineteenth century Japanese shunga book
Book. Fine. Soft cover. Pictorial printed paper wrappers with 12 color-printed explicit scenes and 16 pages of text in Japanese, string bound on the right in the Japanese style. 7" x4 3/4". No date or publisher stated, circa. 1860. Very near fine condition, with one small stain and some light chipping on back cover. Rarely seen in this condition.
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$550.00
A Picture Album of the Holy War (Second Sino-Japanese War) WWII Sensoga
by Naohiko Masaki
Bijutsu Hokoku Kai, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Massive album of Japanese paintings executed during the Fifteen-Year War (aka The Second Sino Japanese War) by army artists, often in battle situations, 1931-1939. Includes sensoga's or war paintings and nihonga's, which, though not depicting war-related events, have a patriotic intent. Many in stunning color, some in black-and white. Also includes several 3-panel fold-outs. Annotations in English and Japanese. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and...
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$379.99
Japanese Military and Civil Swords and Dirks
by Fuller Richard; Gregory Ron
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.
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$865.00
Inner Palace of Edo Castle: New Year
by Chikanobu
Very good triptych of a charming scene of court ladies celebrating New Year.
A lady brings in a lacquer tray with the second course of a sumptuous New Year meal in three lacquered bowls to two noblewomen seated on the floor.
A scene from the series Chiyoda no o-oku (Inner Palace of Edo Castle), published Meiji 28-29 (1895-1896).
All the women wear elaborately embroidered silk kimono decorated with symbols of good luck: cranes, turtles and plums (right), fans and camellias (middle), and peonies (left).... Read more about this item
A lady brings in a lacquer tray with the second course of a sumptuous New Year meal in three lacquered bowls to two noblewomen seated on the floor.
A scene from the series Chiyoda no o-oku (Inner Palace of Edo Castle), published Meiji 28-29 (1895-1896).
All the women wear elaborately embroidered silk kimono decorated with symbols of good luck: cranes, turtles and plums (right), fans and camellias (middle), and peonies (left).... Read more about this item
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$250.00
KIYONAGA: A Study of His Life and Works with a Portfolio of Plates in Color and Collotype (2 Vols.)
by Chie Hirano
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1939. 1st. Hardcover and large format folio. Still the best description of his life and work, supplemented with a large format folio with 138 quality reproductions of his work (printed in Japan). Published for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by The Harvard Univ. Press, 1939. Volume I is text, volume II is a portfolio of plates. Text volume viii, 545 pages, 30 cm. Hardcover. No dust jacket.as issued. Volume II, has all plates called for: 8 color and 138 collotype. 13-1/44"...
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$975.00
The Baur Collection, Geneva: Japanese Prints (2 volumes)
by Forrer, Matthi
Collections Baur, Genève, 1994 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and French text.; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket in slipcase).; Two volumes in slipcase; 23.5 x 29.5 x 8 cm; 5.2 Kg; With colour and black and white illustrations throughout.; Limited edition of 3100 copies, of which this is 448.; Used book in very good condition. Looks as new. Minor signs of wear on the slipcase.; "These two volumes include the Japanese prints collected by Alfred Baur over the forty or so years...
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€530.00
