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A guide to famous places in Kyoto

Miyako meishoguruma (A trip through the famous places of the capital)

Miyako meishoguruma ["A trip through the famous places of the capital"]

Tōritei Shujin [edited by].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. late Edo period (1840-60s)?].

 

An illustrated guidebook to Kyoto, including information on sightseeing locations, temples, shrines, Gion, annual events, lodgings in the city, and so on. Ikeda Tōritei (1788–1857 ...

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Stencils for crest-cutting - a popular pastime

Mondokoro kirikata (Stencils for crest-cutting)

Mondokoro kirikata ["Stencils for crest-cutting"]

Arai, Isaburō [illustrated by].

[Edo (Tōkyō)]: Ōnoya Kinzō, [ca. late Edo period (1830-50s)?].

 

Two issues of a playful work on cutting kamon (family crests) from folded paper. The instructions on the upper wrappers indicate how to fold the paper and how to use the issues - a monkiri ("crest-cutting") can ...

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Illustrations by a woman artist

Nihon Chimei-kagami (Mirror of the Names of Regions in Japan)

Nihon Chimei-kagami ["Mirror of the Names of Regions in Japan"]

[Shimizu], Yoshitamajo [illustrated by].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. late Edo period (1850-60s)?].

 

A list of place names in Japan, illustrated with seven double-page spreads of landscapes by Shimizu Yoshitamajo, also known as Utagawa Yoshitama (1836-1870). Yoshitamajo was a pupil of Ut ...

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A palm-sized volume on filial piety, printed with copperplates

Nijūshikō: Meiji Shinkoku (The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: Newly Engraved in the Meiji Period)

Nijūshikō: Meiji Shinkoku ["The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: Newly Engraved in the Meiji Period"]

Komiyama, Gorō [edited by].

Nihonbashi, [Tōkyō]: Makino Sōjirō, Meiji 17 [1884].

 

A Confucian guide to ethics (especially filial piety) originally produced in the Yuan dynasty (1260–1368) by Guo Jujing, The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars experienced incr ...

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Tomon hyakka (One hundred flowers of patterns from the capital)

One hundred patterns from the capital

Tomon hyakka ["One hundred flowers of patterns from the capital"]

Adachi, Mahaya [Shinsoku] [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Bunsekidō Kitamura Shirobē, Meiji 24 [1891].

 

A two-volume set of motifs of animals, plants, flowers, and landscapes inspired by traditional Japanese patterns. The artist, Adachi Mahaya, was originally an engraver of menuki, decorative metal ...

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Lessons for young women

Onna imagawa oshie no tamazusa: shinkoku kaisei (Precepts for women and teachings in excellent compositions: newly cut and amended)

Onna imagawa oshie no tamazusa: shinkoku kaisei ["Precepts for women and teachings in excellent compositions: newly cut and amended"]

Ikeda, Zenjirō [Keisai Eisen] [edited by]; Keisai, Eisen [illustrated by].

Tōto [Edo]: Kansendō, Tenpō 14 [1843]. 

 

A pedagogical text for girls and young women, edited and illustrated by the artist Keisai Eisen (1790&n ...

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A textbook for women, illustrated by a woman

Oshiegusa Onna Daigaku Sakae Bunko (Lessons for Women: Library of Honour)

Oshiegusa Onna Daigaku Sakae Bunko ["Lessons for Women: Library of Honour"]

Shimizu, Yoshitamajo [illustrated by].

Edo [Tōkyō]: Eikyūdō, Kaei 4 [1851].

 

A manual of conduct for women, illustrated by Shimizu Yoshitamajo, also known as Utagawa Yoshitama (1836-1870). Yoshitama was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and later became a pupil of Shibata Zeshin. Aside ...

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Kuretake (Henon bamboo)

Over 100 colour woodblock-printed designs for kimono

Kuretake ["Henon bamboo"]

Ochiai, Naobumi [preface by]; [Ichida, Yaichirō (created and published by)].

[Kyōto: Ichida Shōten, (Meiji 35 (1902))].

 

An album of woodblock-printed textile designs, probably produced as a catalogue for the publisher: clothing and textile firm Ichida Shōten. The designs are remarkably detailed, and many depict landscapes and use ...

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A complete set of Robun and Kyōsai's most well-known work

Seiyō Dōchū Hizakurige: Bankoku Kōkai (Shank's Mare Round the West: A Voyage to All Countries)

Seiyō Dōchū Hizakurige: Bankoku Kōkai ["Shank's Mare Round the West: A Voyage to All Countries"]

Kanagaki, Robun, Fusō, Kan [text by]; Ōju Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai, Ikkeisai [Ochiai], Yoshiiku, Utagawa, Hiroshige III [illustrated by]. 

[Tōkyō]: Bankyūkaku ... [et al.], Meiji 3-9 [1870-1876]. 

 

A complete fifteen-chapter (thirty-volume) set ...

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A Woodblock-Printed “Basic Guide to Western Clocks”

Seiyō Tokei Benran

[Yanagawa, Shunsan].

Tōkyō : Yamatoya Kihē, [ca. Meiji 2 (1869)].

 

A woodblock-printed booklet published to help Japanese readers understand ‘western time’ and the reading of western clock faces. The change in Japan from the old lunar calendar to the Gregorian calendar was made in November of Meiji 5 (1872), and this accordion-folding booklet would have ...

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Two Albums of Miniature Landscapes

Senkeiban Zushiki

占景盤図式 [Senkeiban Zushiki, “Illustrations of Tray-Landscapes”]

Suminoe, Buzen [bonkei created by]; Suminoe, Aizan [compiled and edited by]; Nagayama, Kōin ... [et al.] [illustrated by]; Tadataka, Katsu [preface by].

Kyōto: Namariya Yasubē; Edo [Tōkyō]: Tsuruya Kiemon; Ōsaka: Kawachiya Tasuke ... [and 3 others], Bunsei 9 [1826].

 

A complet ...

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Unusual designs by Asano Kokō

Shima to kasuri (Stripe and splash patterns)

Shima to kasuri ["Stripe and splash patterns"]

Asano, Kokō [illustrated by]. 

Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 38 [1905]. 

 

The first ('upper') volume of the second series of Shima to kasuri, featuring 56 creative patterns of flags, boats, vegetables, brushes, tennis racquets, dragonflies, fans, billiard balls and cues, rulers ...

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Subtly playful stripes by Furuya Kōrin

Shimashima (Stripe patterns)

Shimashima ["Stripe patterns"]

Furuya, Kōrin [illustrated by]. 

Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Meiji 39 [1906]. 

 

A complete set of over two hundred stripe-based patterns by the artist Furuya Kōrin (1875–1910), a student of Kamisaka Sekka (1866–1942, the designer of Kokkei zuan). While at first glance the patterns may no ...

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An early illustrated edition of Taishokan

Taishokan (The Great Woven Cap)

Taishokan ["The Great Woven Cap"]

[Creator unidentified].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. early Edo period (1600-1700)?].

 

The jō (first) volume (presumably of a jōge (two-volume) set) of an illustrated edition of Taishokan, one of the most popular kōwakamai ballad drama pieces of the Edo period. The Library of Congress provides the following descriptio ...

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Over fifty stunning designs by Kobayashi Gyokunen

Tama Kagami (Mirror of Treasures)

Tama Kagami ["Mirror of Treasures"]

Kobayashi, Gyokunen [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Fujisawa Shuppanbu, Meiji 34 [1901].

 

A complete two-volume set of colour woodblock-printed designs by the highly skilled but little-known graphic designer Kobayashi Gyokunen. Each volume includes one fold-out woodblock-printed frontispiece and twenty-five single-page colour wo ...

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Chobokure Chongare: Ōshū Kasamatsu Tōge Onna Tōzoku (Chobokure Chongare: The Woman Bandit of the Kasamatsu Pass in Ōshū)

The Tale of a Lady Bandit

Chobokure Chongare: Ōshū Kasamatsu Tōge Onna Tōzoku ["Chobokure Chongare: The Woman Bandit of the Kasamatsu Pass in Ōshū"]

[Author/s unidentified].

[Japan: Kanesen, ca. mid Edo period (1820-40s)?].

 

Part one of the chobokure edition of the story of Kijin no Omatsu, one of the "Three Greatest Bandits of Japan". In the chobokure version of the story, Omatsu ...

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Chobokure Chongare: Shirai Gonpachi Komurasaki Hiyoku Tsuka Monogatari (Chobokure Chongare: The Story of the Grave of the Tragic Lovers Shirai Gonpachi and Komurasaki)

The Tale of the Murderer Gonpachi and the Courtesan Komurasaki

Chobokure Chongare: Shirai Gonpachi Komurasaki Hiyoku Tsuka Monogatari ["Chobokure Chongare: The Story of the Grave of the Tragic Lovers Shirai Gonpachi and Komurasaki"]

[Author/s unidentified].

Bakuro-chō, [Tōkyō]: Yoshidaya Shōkichi, [ca. late Edo period (1840-60s)?].

 

A chobokure chongare adaptation of the story of murderer and robber Shirai Gonpachi (Hi ...

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A Women's Treasury of Loyalty

The Women's Chushingura

"鏡山舊錦画"

[Yō, Yōtai (original text by)].

[Ōsaka: Ono'oka Jinzaburō, ca. 1900-20s?].

 

In The Women's Chushingura, a play first performed in 1782, the heroine Ohatsu, the loyal maidservant of the middle-rank lady-inwaiting Onoe, takes revenge on Iwafuji, the senior lady-in-waiting, for causing the suicide of Onoe. Rebecca Corbett notes that the pl ...

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A complete gōkan set illustrated by Kunisada, featuring skull motifs

Tsuru no Chitose: Soga no Kadomatsu [Thousand Years of the Crane: Kadomatsu of Soga]

Tsuru no Chitose: Soga no Kadomatsu ["Thousand Years of the Crane: Kadomatsu of Soga"]

Katsu, Genzō, Takeshiba, Tōji [text by]; Kawatake, Kisui [concept by]; Utagawa, Kunisada [illustrated by].

[Edo (Tōkyō)]: Kōeidō, Genji 2 [1865].

 

A gōkan on the story of the dangerous but chivalrous man Nozarashi Kosuke, illustrated by Kunisada. The original story, insp ...

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Zoomorphic creatures by Yoshitora, inspired by Kyōden

Ujō Zatsuwa: Yume no Megane (Chitchat of Sentient Beings: The Glasses of Dreams)

Ujō Zatsuwa: Yume no Megane ["Chitchat of Sentient Beings: The Glasses of Dreams"]

Hyōhyōtei, Sennari [text by]; Utagawa, Yoshitora [illustrated by].

[Japan: publisher unidentified], Kaei 6 [1853]. 

 

A playful gōkan inspired by Santō Kyōden's Harasuji Ōmuseki (1830-40s), Ujō Zatsuwa is a collaboration by the little-known kyōka and gesaku author Hy ...

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A high-quality reproduction of a Sanjūrokkasen album

Untitled sanjūrokkasen album

[Untitled sanjūrokkasen album]

[Shōkadō, Shōjo (original illustrations by)?].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. early to mid-Shōwa period (1930-50s)?]. 

 

An album of illustrations of the sanjūrokkasen ("Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry") and calligraphic renderings of poems by the poets - probably a high quality reproduction of an album hand-paint ...

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A Kamigata work by the famed gesaku author Jippensha Ikku

Uozukushi Kuchiai Hōkōnin Ukejō no Koto, Narabi ni Sakezukushi Shinshu Tegata no Koto: Edo Jippensha Ikku Saku Shinpan Odokemonku ('Puns Full of Fish: A Request from Servants', with, 'Full of Alcohol: A Promissory Note on New Sake': New Am

Uozukushi Kuchiai Hōkōnin Ukejō no Koto, Narabi ni Sakezukushi Shinshu Tegata no Koto: Edo Jippensha Ikku Saku Shinpan Odokemonku ["'Puns Full of Fish: A Request from Servants', with, 'Full of Alcohol: A Promissory Note on New Sake': New Amusing Passages by the Edo Writer Jippensha Ikku"]

Jippensha, Ikku [text by]; Nagahide [illustrated by].

Ōsaka: Hon Yasu [Hony ...

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Designs for kimono, by Ueno Seikō

Yachigusa (Sundry herbs)

Yachigusa ["Sundry herbs"]

Ueno, Seikō [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Honda Unkindō, Meiji 34 [1901].

 

Volume one of Yachigusa, featuring thirty kimono designs by Ueno Seikō. A plethora of printing and carving techniques have been used, including sabibori (a carving technique used to produce an effect mimicking brushstrokes), kirazuri (printing with mica), and bo ...

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Designs for haori, by Ueno Seikō

Yachigusa (Sundry herbs)

Yachigusa ["Sundry herbs"]

Ueno, Seikō [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Honda Unkindō, Meiji 34 [1901].

 

Volume two of Yachigusa, featuring thirty haori designs by Ueno Seikō. The work uses printing and carving techniques including sabibori (a carving technique used to produce an effect mimicking brushstrokes), kirazuri (printing with mica), bokashi (gradation), ka ...

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