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Stripes and splashes by Furuya Setsuzan

Shima to kasuri (Stripe and splash patterns)

Shima to kasuri ["Stripe and splash patterns"]

Furuya, Setsuzan [illustrated by]. 

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

 

The first ('upper') volume of the first series of Shima to kasuri, illustrated by Furuya Setsuzan (active 1905-6). The work was published in two series, with two volumes in each series. This first pa ...

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Kyōden's amusing patterns, with humorous crests by Teisai Senchō

Shingata konna monchō: Santō Kyōden zuan (Collection of newly-designed motifs for dyeing: designs by Santō Kyōden)

Shingata konna monchō: Santō Kyōden zuan ["Collection of new-shape distinguished crests for dyeing: designs by Santō Kyōden"]

[Kinokuzubō (Teisai, Senchō) (preface and illustrations by); Santō, Kyōden (illustrations by)]. 

Tōkyō: Ōshimaya Takeda Den'emon, [ca. mid-Meiji period (1880-90s)?].

 

A collection of patterns from Santō Kyōden's ...

US$1,600.00
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Two issues of short amusing tales and jokes

Shinpan Otoshibanashi (Amusing Stories, Newly Published)

Shinpan Otoshibanashi ["Amusing Stories, Newly Published"]

[Creator/s unidentified].

[Japan: publisher/s unidentified, ca. late Edo period (1830-50s)?].

 

Two issues of short amusing tales and jokes produced in the late Edo period by an unidentified publisher. The issues, which have been bound together, each feature several short humorous stories on topics i ...

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Creative designs and picture-puzzles by Hiroshige

Shinpō kyōji zukue (New method of illustrating crazy characters)

Shinpō kyōji zukue ["New method of illustrating crazy characters"] 

Mantei, Ōga [text by]; Ichiryūsai [Utagawa], Hiroshige [illustrated by].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. Kōka gannen (1844)]. 

 

A playful book of moji-e ("character-picture") illustrations by Utagawa Hiroshige accompanied by poems by Mantei Ōga. Moji-e are illustrations th ...

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An album of woodblock-printed literati paintings and calligraphy

Shogachō (Album of calligraphy and illustrations)

Shogachō ["Album of calligraphy and illustrations"]

Taki, Katei ... [et al.] [illustrated by]; Yamaoka, Tesshū ... [et al.] [calligraphy by].

Tōkyō: Asano Eizō, Meiji 11 [1878].

 

A volume of eight woodblock-printed bunjin-ga style illustrations of landscapes, animals, and flowers interleaved with eight double-page spreads of woodblock-printed calligraphy. ...

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Unconventional designs for artisans and craftspeople

Shoke jimonshiki (Woven pattern styles of various families)

[Shoke jimonshiki ("Woven pattern styles of various families")]

[Umehara, Shinshichi (illustrated by)].

[Ōsaka: Onogi Ichibē ... (et al.), ca. mid-Edo period (1760-70s)].

 

A compendium of 648 motifs and patterns for craftspeople and artisans. The work is described in the preface as a collection of unconventional new Japanese and Chinese designs for carvings ...

US$2,200.00
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Dōgu-zukushi Sucharaka-pokupoku Yoshikono-bushi (Various Tools, Gobbledygook Yoshikono Ballads)

Short Gobbledygook Songs

Dōgu-zukushi Sucharakapokupoku Yoshikonobushi ["Various Tools, Gobbledygook Yoshikono Ballads"]

[Author/s unidentified].

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

 

A short collection of humorous songs on themes including alcohol, counting money, oiran, and the Yoshiwara pleasure district. Susan Miyo Asai notes in Nōmai Dance Drama: ...

US$125.00
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Shinpan Geisha Hauta (Geishas' Short Songs, Newly Published)

Short Love Songs Performed by Geisha

Shinpan Geisha Hauta ["Geishas' Short Songs, Newly Published"] 

[Creator/s unidentified]. 

[Japan: Kikuyama, ca. late Edo period (1830-50s)?]. 

 

A collection of ten short hauta songs popular with geisha, who often performed such ditties in the pleasure quarters. The booklet is a prime example of comical street literature of the Edo period ...

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Sketches by Bunpō and Keisai

Shoshoku jinbutsu gafu (Album of people of various professions)

Shoshoku jinbutsu gafu ["Album of people of various professions"]

[Ichijusai, Kishun (edited and partially illustrated by); Kawamura, Bunpō, Kitao, Masayoshi [Kuwagata, Keisai] (illustrated by)].

Nagoya: Kajita Gensuke, [ca. early Taishō period (1914?)].

 

A Taishō period printing of an Ansei era work that compiles simple illustrations of birds, flowers, chi ...

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Mad poems, illustrated by Harukawa Goshichi

Shunkyōshū: kyōka eiri (Collection of spring fancies: illustrated kyōka poems)

Shunkyōshū: kyōka eiri ["Collection of spring fancies: illustrated kyōka poems"] 

Tokkansai, Sachō [selections by]; Harukawa, Goshichi [illustrated by].

Karaku [Kyōto]: Shōfūsha [blocks cut by]; Yoshida Shinbē [book bound by], Bunka 13 [1816].

 

A collection of kyōka poems by various poets, each accompanied by a colour woodblock-printed illustration,& ...

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Kitao Masayoshi's Masterpiece of Landscape Painting

Sketches of Landscapes

"山水略画式"

[Kuwagata], Keisai [Kitao, Masayoshi; Keisai, Masayoshi] [illustrated by].

Naniwa, [Ōsaka]: Fukusada Tōhē, Bunka 10 [1813].

 

A Fukusada edition of Keisai's "guide to drawing landscapes simply". Keisai Masayoshi (1764-1824), who also worked under the names of Kitao Masayoshi and Kuwagata Keisai, provides a range of half-, single-, and double- ...

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A Biwa-ren collection of 'mad poems', illustrated by Katsushika Hokutai

Sodetama kyōkashū (Sleeve-sized collection of kyōka poems)

Sodetama kyōkashū ["Sleeve-sized collection of kyōka poems"]

Benbenkan, Koryū [text by]; Eisai, Hokutai [Katsushika Hokutai] [illustrated by]; Shikitei, Sanba [preface by].

[Edo (Tōkyō): Yamatoya Kyūbē, Bunka 3-4 (1806-7)].

 

A collection of kyōka - 'mad poems' - edited by the kyōka poet and shogunate retainer Benbenkan Koryū (1746-1818). Koryū ...

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Sankō Genpei Seisuiki (A Reference to the Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of the Minamoto and Taira Clans) (with) Sankō Ishiyama Gunki (A Reference to the War Chronicle of Ishiyama)

Story Synopses in the Mid-Meiji Era

Sankō Genpei Seisuiki ["A Reference to the Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of the Minamoto and Taira Clans"] [with] Sankō Ishiyama Gunki ["A Reference to the War Chronicle of Ishiyama"]

Ikkeisai [Utagawa] [Ochiai], Yoshiiku [illustrated by].

Tōkyō: Hiro'oka Kōsuke, Meiji 16 [1883].

 

Four issues from the Kinko Jitsuroku ("Veritable Records of Past and Pre ...

US$205.00
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Zuan hyakudai (Designs on one hundred themes)

Striking designs by Ogino Issui

Zuan hyakudai ["Designs on one hundred themes"]

Ogino, Issui [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Honda Ichijirō; Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Meiji 43 [1910].

 

A complete set of three volumes of striking designs of animals, landscapes, people, flowers, and plants with a strong neo-Rinpa flavour by Ogino Issui. These three copies were previously owned by a clothing department ...

US$2,150.00
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Ōnishi Chinnen's Customs of the Eastern capital

Taihei uzō (Scenes of the Great Peace)

Taihei uzō ["Scenes of the Great Peace"]

[Ōnishi], Chinnen [illustrated by].

Edo [Tōkyō]: Kobayashi Shinbe, Ōsakaya Genbē, Bunsei 12 [1829]. 

 

An early printing of Ōnishi Chinnen's beautiful Azuma no teburi ("Customs of the Eastern Capital"), also known as Chinnen gafu ("Chinnen's album") and Taihei uzō ("Scenes of the Great Peace"), featurin ...

US$2,280.00
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A household Taiheiki, featuring characters made of kitchen utensils

Taiheiki Mochisake Kassen (Chronicle of Peace: Battle of Rice Cakes and Sake); Setaiheiki: Garakuta-Banashi (Chronicle of Household Peace: Stories of Miscellaneous Utensils); Setaiheiki: Kanryaku no Maki (Chronicle of Household Peace: Abridged Section)

Taiheiki Mochisake Kassen ["Chronicle of Peace: Battle of Rice Cakes and Sake"]; Setaiheiki: Garakuta-Banashi ["Chronicle of Household Peace: Stories of Miscellaneous Utensils"]; Setaiheiki: Kanryaku no Maki ["Chronicle of Household Peace: Abridged Section"] 

[Creator/s unidentified]. 

Bakurochō, [Tōkyō]: Yoshidaya Shōkichi, [ca. Tenpō 9 (1838)?].

 

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Satoka yoi Ōpira no sakae: uosei hatsumono (Villages and houses on night duty and Ōpira`s honour: the first catch of milt)

The battle of an eggplant and a bonito over a potato-courtesan

Satoka yoi Ōpira no sakae: uosei hatsumono ["Villages and houses on night duty and Ōpira's honour: the first catch of milt"]

Torii, Kiyonaga [illustrated by].

[Edo (Tōkyō): Okumuraya, An'ei 6 (1777)].

 

A kibyōshi illustrated by famous artist Torii Kiyonaga (1752–1815) on the tale of a battle (instigated by a feud between a bonito and an eggpla ...

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A Complete Ten Volume Set on the Satsuma Rebellion

The Seinan War, from Beginning to End

"西南戦争始終"

Shōzaburō, Maeda [edited by]; Utagawa, Yoshikage [illustrated by].

Ōsaka: Maeda Kihē, Meiji 10 [1877].

 

A complete set of ten illustrated books on the Satsuma Rebellion (also known as the Seinan War), a battle between samurai and the new imperial government which took place from January to September, 1877, culminating in the elimination of th ...

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Mizu no omo shū

The surface of the water

Mizu no omo shū ["The surface of the water"]

Shakuyakutei, [Nagane], Suiseien, [Ryōkyo], Saisentei, [Naofuru] [poems selected by]; [Komatsubara], Suikei [illustrated by].

[Japan]: Mendō, Seiyūen [printing blocks owned by], [postscript dated Tenpō 2 (1831)].

 

A collection of kyōka poems illustrated with stunning colour woodblock prints by Komatsubara Suike ...

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A kusazōshi featuring copperplate-printed text

Tokugawa jūgo dairyakki (An abridged record of the fifteen Tokugawa shōguns)

Tokugawa jūgo dairyakki ["An abridged record of the fifteen Tokugawa shōguns"]

Ishikawa, Wasuke [edited by]; [Hasegawa], Sadanobu [II] [illustrated by].

Ōsaka: Ishikawa Wasuke, Meiji 13 [1880].

 

A complete three-volume set of this early/mid Meiji kusazōshi picture book featuring a mix of woodblockand copperplate-printing techniques. Each volume begins wit ...

US$680.00
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An enterprising adaptation of the Yoshiwara saiken (Guide to the pleasure quarters)

Tōkyō ryūkō saiken-ki (A detailed guide to Tokyo trends)

[Tōkyō ryūkō saiken-ki ("A detailed guide to Tokyo trends")]

Tōtō, Sanjin [preface by]; Noboritei, Isshin [selections by]; Shimizu, Ichijirō [edited by].

Tōkyō: Shimizu Ichijirō, Meiji 18 [1885].

 

An adaptation, occasionally humorous, of the famed Yoshiwara Saiken guide, featuring the names of popular manufacturers, stores, craftspeople, and entertainers w ...

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Creatures constructed from everyday tools

Tsukurimono Shukō no Tane (Ideas for Fabricated Things)

Tsukurimono Shukō no Tane ["Ideas for Fabricated Things"] 

Akatsuki, Seiō [Kanenari] [created by]; Kirōtei, Rikimaru [preface by]; Matsukawa, Hanzan [illustrated by]. 

[Ōsaka]: Aoki Sūzandō, [ca. Meiji period (1880-90s)?].

 

A Meiji printing of Matsukawa Hanzan's album of tsukurimono (lit. "fabricated things") - objects, legendary character ...

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An unrecorded book of obake: revenge of the household utensils

Ukiyo nanabake ezukushi (Illustrated compilation of seven shapeshifters of the floating world)

Ukiyo nanabake ezukushi ["Illustrated compilation of seven shapeshifters of the floating world"]

[Illustrator and author unidentified].

Teramachi, Kyōto: Hishiya Jihē, [ca. mid-Edo period (1740-60s)?].

 

An illustrated story of vengeance unrecorded in online databases. Tsukumogami, closely related to hyakkimono, are utensils and implements that have become s ...

US$2,500.00
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A famous kabuki actor's biography, illustrated by Kunisada

Yakusha Kijinden (Biographies of Extraordinary Actors)

Yakusha Kijinden ["Biographies of Extraordinary Actors"]

Tatekawa [Utei], Enba [II] [selections by]; [Utagawa, Kunisada (illustrated by)].

[Edo (Tōkyō): Yamaguchiya Tōbē, Tenpō 4 (1833)].

 

The first volume of the first series of Yakusha Kijinden. The four-volume work featured biographies of the kabuki actors Ichikawa Ebizō V (1791–1859), Segawa Kik ...

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An illustrated record of Christian history, complete in six volumes

Yaso Ichidai Benmōki (A Refutation of the Life of Jesus)

Yaso Ichidai Benmōki ["A Refutation of the Life of Jesus"]

Tajima, Shōji [text by]; Sensai [Kobayashi], Eitaku [illustrated by].

Tōkyō: Izumiya Hanbē, Nintensha [printing blocks owned by], Meiji 7-8 [1874-1875].

 

A Japanese adaptation of Samuel G. Goodrich's pseudonymous Peter Parley’s Universal History, with a strong emphasis on Christian hist ...

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A hand-painted album featuring art by Taki Katei

Zenyo ichimishū (Collection of one group's Zen satiation)

Zenyo ichimishū ["Collection of one group's Zen satiation"]

Taki, Katei, Ō, Kinko, Kimura, Shōsen ... [et al.] [illustrated by].

[Japan, ca. 1850-60s]. In manuscript.

An album of one single-page and seven double-page spreads of handwritten calligraphy and twelve double-page spreads of hand-painted illustrations (often together with shorter calligraphic passages). The ...

US$860.00
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A collaboration between Bakin and Shigemasa

(Shinpan) Kannin goryō kogane no kotonoha ((Newly published) Profit from perseverance: golden phrases)

(Shinpan) Kannin goryō kogane no kotonoha ["(Newly published) Profit from perseverance: golden phrases"]

[Kyokutei, Bakin (text by); Kitao, Shigemasa (illustrated by)].

[Edo (Tokyo): Tsuruya Kiemon, Kansei 8 (1796)].

 

The second volume of a comical work about a young man (Zenjirō) and woman (Osechi) who, taking to heart their parents' teachings about pe ...

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An Unresearched Gōkan

A Book Bound in Abura Town: A Rapeseed Kibyoshi

"油町製本菜種黄表紙"

Ryūtei, Senka [Tanehiko II] [text by]; Utagawa, Sadahide [illustrated by].

[Tōkyō]: Tsuruya Kiemon, Tenpō 5 [1834].

 

A gōkan about which no research in Japanese or English has been located, but which may revolve around bookbinding or publishing. The publisher, Tsuruya Kiemon, was based in Tōriaburachō, the well-known "book street" me ...

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A Beautiful Botanical Diary, in Four Volumes

A Set of Sketchbooks of Seasonal Flowers and Plants

[Ca. Meiji 36 to 44 (1903-1911)]. In manuscript.

 

A set of four books of skillfully hand-painted flowers and animals, presumed to be by the same, unknown, Japanese artist. Most of the illustrations are captioned with the name of the flower/plant pictured and the date the sketch was made, suggesting that the books were used as ‘sketchbook diaries’ ...

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Edo no Hana Ofude Hansan Shinju Kudoki (Edo's Flowers Ofude and Hanzan: Oral Recitation of a Double Suicide)

An Adaptation of a Keijo-uta

Edo no Hana Ofude Hansan Shinju Kudoki ["Edo's Flowers Ofude and Hanzan: Oral Recitation of a Double Suicide"]

[Sugioka (illustrated by)?].

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

 

A short song in which two lovers from different social strata make a suicide pact, believing their love to be forbidden, but are saved by ...

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By an unidentified illustrator

An unidentified woodblock-printed book of moji-e

[An unidentified woodblock-printed book of moji-e]

[Illustrator unidentified].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. mid Edo period (1680-1780s)?].

 

An unidentified woodblock-printed book of seventeen moji-e ("character-pictures") featuring animals. The hiragana characters hidden in each illustration also appear next to each figure, providing the name of the ...

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One Hundred Colour Woodblock-Printed Patterns for Nishijin by Keika

Bikō Zukan

Hasegawa, Keika [illustrated by].

Ōsaka : Aoki Tsunesaburō, Meiji 27 [1894]. First and only known edition.

A two-volume album of colour woodblock-printed designs by acclaimed artist Hasegawa Keika. Each volume contains 50 designs, two to a page, featuring motifs of flowers, plants, fans, birds, rivers, ships, shells, flags, and so on. The patter ...

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First Steps in Geography

Chiri Shohō

Tōkyō : Monbushō, Meiji 6 [1873].

 

A Meiji-period illustrated textbook on geography compiled by the government. Books such as these were used after the opening of Japan to trade in the Meiji period to introduce scientific information from overseas to the Japanese population. Woodblock-printed, with several illustrations, including one in colour of a world map.

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An explanatory diagram of the heliocentric model

Chōko Kyūridō Shōhon Chiten Shinzu (New Diagram of the Earth Revolving)

Chōko Kyūridō Shōhon Chiten Shinzu ["New Diagram of the Earth Revolving"] 

Tsurumine, Shigenobu [created by].

[Japan: publisher unidentified], Bunsei 10 [1827].

 

An astronomical chart of the solar system created by Tsurumine Shigenobu (1788-1859), a scholar of mathematics, astronomy, and Japanese, Chinese and Western literature. In 1832, at the age of ...

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An album of circular motifs

Circular hand-painted motifs

[An album of circular motifs]

[Artist unidentified].

[Japan, ca. early to mid-Meiji period (1860-90s)?]. Manuscript.

 

A hand-painted album of fifteen circular floral designs by an unidentified artist. Each motif is captioned with the name of the flower or plant depicted. The illustrations were originally painted on a scroll, which has been bound concertina- ...

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Kochōshiki (Expressions of butterflies)

Designs inspired by butterfly wings, by Shimomura Gyokukō

Kochōshiki ["Expressions of butterflies"]

Shimomura, Gyokukō [Tamahiro] [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Honda Ichijirō; Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Meiji 45 [1912].

 

An album of designs inspired by butterfly wings, featuring two beautiful woodblock-printed illustrations and 68 monochrome collotype illustrations. The designs were created by Shimomura Gyokukō (also known a ...

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Love poems with humorous illustrations by Yoshimori

Dodoitsu zue (Illustrated love poems)

Dodoitsu zue ["Illustrated love poems"]

Kōseisha, Sakumaru [selections by]; Ikkōsai [Utagawa], Yoshimori [illustrated by].

[Japan: publisher/s unidentified, preface dated Man'en gannen (1860)].

Five volumes of dodoitsu (poems that are often humorous and typically about love) illustrated by Yoshimori (1830–1884), bound in one. It may be the case that Kōseisha Sak ...

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A Recent History of Japan, Highly Illustrated and with a Focus on International Incidents

Ehon Kinsei Nihon Nenkei

Tsuchiya, Ikunosuke [Sudō, Nansui] [edited by]; Ichiōsai [Utagawa], Kunimatsu [illustrated by].

Tōkyō : Shimizu Kahē, [publishing permission received in Meiji 16 (1883)]. First edition.

 

A charming accordion-folding chronology of important events in Japan from 1844 to 1882, highly illustrated with delicate copperplate-engraved vignettes. The delightful little work ...

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A manual for women, illustrated by Hokusai's daughter

Eiri Nichiyō Onna Chōhōki (An Illustrated Handbook on Daily Life for Women)

Eiri Nichiyō Onna Chōhōki ["An Illustrated Handbook on Daily Life for Women"]

Ōi, Eijo [illustrated by]; Takai, Ranzan [text by].

Ōsaka: Izumiya Kin'emon, Kōka 4 [1847]. 

 

Katsushika Ōi (ca. 1800-1866, also known as Katsushika Eijo), Hokusai's third daughter, was active in helping her artist father produce illustrations in his workshop. She ...

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A pedagogical gamebook of hidden characters and pictures

Esagashi taizenshū: kyōiku moji-e (Great compilation of hidden pictures: character-pictures for education)

Esagashi taizenshū: kyōiku moji-e ["Great compilation of hidden pictures: character-pictures for education"]

[Utagawa, Kunitoshi (illustrated by)].

Tōkyō: Kokkadō, [ca. Meiji 25 (1892)].

 

A mid-Meiji period compilation of hidden-picture puzzles and moji-e for children. The work is split into two parts: Tōsei sanjūni mensō ("Thirty-two amusing express ...

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Rumours about the Dutch

Evening Tales of Bansui: A Clarification of Misunderstandings in Theories about the Dutch

Ōtsuki, Bansui [Gentaku] [dictated by]; Arima, Genchō [text by]; Koshimura, Shikyo [proofread by].

[Seishū, Anatsu Higashi-machi: Yamagataya Tōsuke, Kansei 11 (1799)?].

 

The record of a dialogue between famous Dutch studies scholar Ōtsuki Gentaku (1757-1827) and student Arima on fifty topics relating to the Dutch, including food, wine, tobacco, glass utensils, ele ...

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Two hundred designs by Furuya Kōrin

Furuya Kōrin's design series

[Furuya Kōrin's design series]

Furuya, Kōrin [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Unsōdō, Meiji 38-39 [1905-6]. 

 

A set of four books of woodblock-printed designs by the acclaimed Kyoto-based artist Furuya Kōrin (1875–1910). The set includes Date moyō hanazukushi ("Compilation of flamboyant flower patterns", 25 pages of designs), Matsuzukushi ("Compilati ...

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Abridged skits recorded and illustrated by Keisai Eisen

Hesochaban (Absurd Farces)

Hesochaban ["Absurd Farces"]

Ippitsuan [Keisai, Eisen] [selections by]; [Keisai], Eisen [illustrated by]. 

Nihonbashi, [Tōkyō]: Kawaguchi Uhē, Kōka 3 [1846]. 

 

A selection of abridged chaban (skits or farces) recorded and illustrated by the ukiyo-e artist Keisai Eisen (1790-1848), who saw the pieces performed in person. Dylan McGee (2010) provides ...

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A magazine of woodblock-printed textile designs

Ishō sekai (World of designs)

Ishō Sekai ["World of designs"]

[Sawa], Kyūkō ... [et al.] [illustrated by]; Watanabe, Takijirō [woodblocks cut by].

Tōkyō: Seibikai, Meiji 34 [1901].

 

Issue 5 of the magazine Ishō Sekai, published by the Seibikai ("The Exquisite Beauty Association"). The eighteen textile designs included were provided by members of the Seibikai, and the woodblocks we ...

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A travelogue of Kyoto, by prominent bunjin artists of the Edo period

Jūjun kagetsuchō (One-hundred-day album of flowers and the moon)

Jūjun kagetsuchō ["One-hundred-day album of flowers and the moon"]

Mutō, Inazō [edited by]; Rai, Kyōhei [compiled by]; Aoki, Mokubei, Oda, Kaisen, Uragami, Shunkin, Rai, Sanyō, Ema, Saikō, Nakabayashi, Chikutō, Ōkura, Ryuzan, Yoshida, Shūran, Nukina, Kaioku ... [et al.] [with contributions by].

Ōsaka: Shikada Seishichi, Shunsōdō [printing blocks owned by], Meiji ...

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Fierce women brandishing swords

Keisei Koi Samisen: Yūkiri Izaemon [A Courtesan's Shamisen of Love: Yūkiri and Izaemon]

Keisei Koi Samisen: Yūkiri Izaemon ["A Courtesan's Shamisen of Love: Yūkiri and Izaemon"]

[Bokusentei], Yukimaro [text by]; [Keisai], Eisen [illustrated by].

Edo [Tōkyō]: Maruya Jinpachi, Bunsei 10 [1827].

 

A gōkan illustrated by Eisen recounting a lovers' feud between the courtesan Yūkiri and her handsome but destitute customer Fujiya Izaemon. Y ...

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Kyōden's

Kimyō Zui (A Strange Pictorial Dictionary)

[Kimyō Zui ("A Strange Pictorial Dictionary")]

Santō-an [Santō, Kyōden] [text and illustrations by].

[Edo]: Ōshimaya Den'emon, [ca. Kyōwa period (1801-1804)].

 

A playful book of moji-e ("character-picture") illustrations and hanjimono/hanji-e ("puzzle-pictures") by the acclaimed gesaku author Santō Kyōden. Moji-e are illustrations that feature Japanese ...

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Character-pictures for children, illustrated by Kunitoshi

Kyōiku gakei moji-e (Character-picture shapes for education)

Kyōiku gakei moji-e ["Character-picture shapes for education"]

Utagawa, Kunitoshi, [Katsushika, Hokusai?] [illustrated by].

Shitaya, [Tōkyō]: Yamazaki Gyōzaburō, Kokkadō, Meiji 25 [1892].

 

A book of moji-e ("character-picture") amusements for children. Moji-e are illustrations that feature Japanese characters (typically hiragana) 'hidden' in the li ...

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Spectacular designs by Hasegawa Keika and Furuya Kōrin

Kyōka Zuan (Designs from the Capital)

Kyōka Zuan ["Designs from the Capital"]

Hasegawa, Keika, Furuya, Kōrin [illustrated by].

Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 31-38 [1898-1905]. 

 

A complete collection of stunning textile designs by Hasegawa Keika (act. 1892-1905) and Furuya Kōrin (1875–1910). The creative illustrations, many of which reimagine traditional Japanese moti ...

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The Japanese alphabet, in people

Miburi Iroha (The Iroha in gestures)

Miburi Iroha ["The Iroha in gestures"]

Tōzaian, Nanboku [preface and text by]; Shōchōrō [Utagawa], Kunimaro, Kitao, Shigemasa [II] [illustrated by].

[Edo]: Yamaguchi, [ca. late Edo period (after 1829)].

 

An inventive gōkan also known under the title Miburi Iroha-gei, featuring illustrations of people twisted into the shapes of the characters of the Japanese ...

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