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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.
[ALBUM OF 22 ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS, ON SILK, OF BIRDS AND LEPIDOPTERA] by [Japanese Watercolors - 19th century] - 1810
by [Japanese Watercolors - 19th century]
[ALBUM OF 22 ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS, ON SILK, OF BIRDS AND LEPIDOPTERA]
by [Japanese Watercolors - 19th century]
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[Japan, 1810. Folio (33 x 27.5 cm). Late 19th or early 20th century marbled calf, raised bands, spine gilt extra, gilt label, a.e.g., with watercolor river scenes on paper onlaid as doublures. Binding extremities rubbed, images offset a bit to interleaves, occasional patches of darkening to backgrounds of a few images, one corner of an interleaf creased and a bit torn, but otherwise very good to near fine. A lovely collection of watercolor images on silk of birds, moths and butterflies, the artist unknown, but the paintings executed with great skill. The twenty-two individual panels vary somewhat in size, but approximate 24 x 20 cm to 20 x 16cm, and each includes several specimens: in the case of the birds, 2-4, in the case of the Lepidoptera, 5-10. The individual panels are mounted to heavy stock via blue silk bordering. The birds are identified via manuscript captions next to each bird; the Lepidoptera are not captioned. A pencil note on the free endsheet in an early hand dates the paintings somewhat earlier (1700-1750 Shijo School) than do those later in its most recent provenance: tipped in unidentified mid-20th century auction description (dating the paintings to early 19th century) - private collection.
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Japanese Military and Civil Swords and Dirks
by Fuller Richard; Gregory Ron
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HANSHIN MEISHO-ZUE
by [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] Kanao Bun'endo^, publisher
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1916. [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] Kanao Bun'endo, publisher. HANSHIN MEISHO-ZUE A folding album of 24 (of 30) prints - oban size color woodcut, printed by Nishimura Kumakichi and published by Kanao Bun'endo in 1916,17. The finest of all of Bun'endo's remarkable porfolio productions, The HANSHIN MEISHO ZUE is a great rarity, even individual prints from the series of 30 are by no means common. We are missing only prints #7, 21-25 (6 in all). There are two prefatory pages, one is a map of the trip around western Japan depicted herein, the other a table of contents. Also, one of the Akamatsu Rinsaku designed portfolio cover prints has been mounted as preface to the whole series, while four others have been trimmed and mounted on two pages at the end. The artists who designed the prints were Akamatsu Rinsaku (1878-1953), Noda Kyuho (1879-1971), Hata Tsuneharu(1883-? ), Mizushima Nihou (or Nihofu) (1884-1958) and Nagai Hyosai (1882-1945). For more on this remarkable work, see Charles Mitchell's article in ESSAYS ON…
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THE JAPANESE PRINT AN INTERPRETATION
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
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Chicago: The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1912.. Tan Japanese paper over boards, lettered in dark blue, with abstract Crane device stamped in olive green. Fibrous Japanese paper endsheets. Neatly rebacked in tan paper board. Boards slightly smudged and lightly edgeworn, attractive period bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a good copy, in oversize folding clamshell box. First published printing of the first edition, preceded by another printing which Wright disliked and destroyed (but for an alleged 'few'). This is one of the copies printed Japan vellum, of which, depending on the reference, there were either thirty-five or fifty copies. Inscribed by Wright in 1915 at the lower edge of the first blank, and signed with initials. This was Wright's first book for which he was the sole author of the text, and is the most substantive of his publications devoted to his pioneering passion for this subject. SWEENEY 109.
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Antique Japanese Fairy Tale Series #16, The Wonderful Tea Kettle
by JAMES, T.H.
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1896 1st ed Japanese Fairy Tales Wonderful Tea Kettle Badger Illustrated TokyoA rare, hand-made book on silk-stitched, creped wraps of famous Japanese fairy tales! This traditional tale, 'The Wonderful Tea Kettle', is an illustrated woodblock book telling the tale of an old priest and his desire to lead the Chanoyu ceremony. While in meditation, his tea kettle began to shake and out of it came a badger!
This volume is numbered no. 16 in a series of 'Antique Japanese Fairy Tales'.
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Antique Japanese Fairy Tale Series #16, The Wonderful Tea Kettle
Tokyo : T. Hasegawa, 1896. First edition. [Meiji 29]
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Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection (COMPLETE 3 VOLUMES)
by Hillier, Jack
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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 exercise the strongest appeal to us in the West. The main reason for the present widespread and growing interest is the powerful design combined with the beauty of the colour harmonies of the prints. But there are also other reasons; they depict a Japan of the past now almost vanished, its culture, mores, annual events, legends and its history; and they also show the influence of the Japanese print on the evolution of modern Western art. In the last few years the most important event in the world of…
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HANSHIN MEISHO-ZUE
by [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] Kanao Bun'endo^, publisher
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1916. [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] Kanao Bun'endo, publisher. HANSHIN MEISHO-ZUE A folding album of 24 (of 30) prints - oban size color woodcut, printed by Nishimura Kumakichi and published by Kanao Bun'endo in 1916,17. The finest of all of Bun'endo's remarkable porfolio productions, The HANSHIN MEISHO ZUE is a great rarity, even individual prints from the series of 30 are by no means common. We are missing only prints #7, 21-25 (6 in all). There are two prefatory pages, one is a map of the trip around western Japan depicted herein, the other a table of contents. Also, one of the Akamatsu Rinsaku designed portfolio cover prints has been mounted as preface to the whole series, while four others have been trimmed and mounted on two pages at the end. The artists who designed the prints were Akamatsu Rinsaku (1878-1953), Noda Kyuho (1879-1971), Hata Tsuneharu(1883-? ), Mizushima Nihou (or Nihofu) (1884-1958) and Nagai Hyosai (1882-1945). For more on this remarkable work, see Charles Mitchell's article in ESSAYS ON…
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THE JAPANESE PRINT AN INTERPRETATION
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
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Chicago: The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1912.. Tan Japanese paper over boards, lettered in dark blue, with abstract Crane device stamped in olive green. Fibrous Japanese paper endsheets. Neatly rebacked in tan paper board. Boards slightly smudged and lightly edgeworn, attractive period bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a good copy, in oversize folding clamshell box. First published printing of the first edition, preceded by another printing which Wright disliked and destroyed (but for an alleged 'few'). This is one of the copies printed Japan vellum, of which, depending on the reference, there were either thirty-five or fifty copies. Inscribed by Wright in 1915 at the lower edge of the first blank, and signed with initials. This was Wright's first book for which he was the sole author of the text, and is the most substantive of his publications devoted to his pioneering passion for this subject. SWEENEY 109.
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HOKUSAÖ
by Goncourt, Edmond de
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Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1896. First edition. X-Library in library binding with remains of spine numbers and label and library stamps; Pages quite age toned; Cloth bound in good condition.. Text in French; 7" x 4.5"; Color frontis with facing tissue; xix, 386 pages.
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Form and Space of Japanese Architecture.
by CARVER, Norman F. Jr. Japanese translation by Ryuichi Hanaguchi.
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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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.
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Art of The Samurai Japanese Arms And Armor, 1156-1868
by Morihiro Ogawa
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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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.
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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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Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden
by Marc P. Jiro Takei; Keane
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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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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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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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Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan 1580s-1680s
by LILLEHOJ, Elizabeth
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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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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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Hiroshige 53 Stations of Tokaido (Masterworks of Ukiyo-E,)
by Narazaki; Hiroshige Ando
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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
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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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