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47 Pieces of Japanese Sheet Music
Takehisa, Yumeji, and others [illustrations by].
[Japan] : Senow, Symphony ... et al., Taishō to early Shōwa period [1920-30s].
A collection of 47 pieces of sheet music published in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sheet music published during this period in Japan is known for its beautiful Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs, and these examples do n ...
A Blank Book for Calligraphy Enthusiasts
[Untitled Album]
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. mid-Meiji to Taishō period (1890-1920s)?].
An album of thirty colour woodblock-printed spreads produced for calligraphy enthusiasts, who could write in brush and ink directly onto the pages or ask ...
An album of match labels
[An album of match labels]
Oda, Shūichi ... [et al] [commissioned by].
[Japan: privately published, ca. Shōwa 2-10 (1927-35)].
An album of tipped-in match labels produced in the 1920s and '30s when Japan's match label-collecting fad was at its peak. Most of the labels are woodblock-printed and have been produced in themed sets showcasing foreign t ...
Araihari ukiyo moyō (Floating world patterns stretched out to dry)
Araihari ukiyo moyō ["Floating world patterns stretched out to dry"]
Santō, Kyōden [original work by]; Kubota, Beisen [edited by].
Kyōto: Hakuseisha, Meiji 22 [1889].
A collection of 128 textile patterns from Santō Kyōden's Komon shinpō (1786), rearranged and coloured by the artist Kubota Beisen (1852-1906). While the upper wrapper notes t ...
Asagiri (Morning mist)
Asagiri ["Morning mist"]
Ōta, Saburō [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Seibidō, Meiji 45 [1912].
A two-volume work featuring seventy illustrations matched with lyrics to folk or traditional Japanese songs. The illustrator, Ōta Saburō (1884-1969, sometimes referred to as Ōta Samurō), studied Western-style painting under the artist and politician Kuroda Seik ...
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 ...
Bikō zukan (A mirror of beautiful crafts)
Bikō zukan ["A mirror of beautiful crafts"]
Hasegawa, Keika [illustrated by].
Ōsaka: Aoki Tsunesaburō (Aoki Sūzandō), Meiji 27 [1894].
A complete two-volume set of colour woodblock-printed patterns designed by the painter Hasegawa Keika (act. 1892-1905). The one hundred patterns included would presumably have been designed for textiles and hand-craf ...
Carton
Yūshū sakuhinshū ["Collection of outstanding works"] = Carton
Hashimoto, Chūgo [photography and printing by].
[Ishikawa]: Ishikawa Kenritsu Kōgyō Gakkō, [preface dated 1926].
A set of 156 photographic plates of textile, furniture, and ceramic designs from across the world. According to the preface, the headmaster of the industrial school that produc ...
Chiyo-shibori (Decorative tie-dyeing (patterns))
Chiyo-shibori ["Decorative tie-dyeing (patterns)"]
Seshimo Gofukuten [produced by].
Uji, [Kyōto Prefecture]: Seshimo Gofukuten, Seisen 5 [1941].
An unrecorded sample book of ten tie-dye designs for autumn and winter, produced in Seisen 5 ("the fifth year of the holy war") by the clothing store Seshimo (or Raika) Gofukuten. The editor notes in the preface t ...
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 ...
Emon: okunizome (Patterns for okunizome dyeing)
Emon: okunizome ["Patterns for okunizome dyeing"]
[Iwao, Joshun (illustrated by)?].
[Japan, ca. late Meiji period to early Shōwa period (1880-1920s)?]. Manuscript.
A manuscript of forty designs (including 23 in colour) for okunizome textile dyeing. Okunizome, later referred to as Kaga yūzen or Kaga okunizome, was a dyeing technique predominantly use ...
Erokan jidai no uta: Nikkatsu eiga shudaika (Song for the age of erotic senses: theme of the Nikkatsu film)
Erokan jidai no uta: Nikkatsu eiga shudaika ["Song for the age of erotic senses: theme of the Nikkatsu film"]
Itō, Kazuo [lyrics by]; Matsudaira, Nobuhiro [composed by]; Matsubara, Chikashi, Satō, Tokitarō [arranged by]; [Saitō], Kazō [illustrated by].
Tōkyō : Bikutā Shuppansha, Shōwa 5 [1930].
A harmonica score for the theme song of the film Musume ...
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 ...
Futaba (Budding leaves)
Futaba ["Budding leaves"]
Tabata, Kakudō [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 40 [1907].
An album of thirty full-page woodblock-printed illustrations by Tabata Kakudō. Kakudō studied under the artist Suzuki Hyakunen (1828-1891) and later became a teacher of dyeing design in Kyoto. He contributed illustrations to Unsōdō's Bijutsukai and Sh ...
Giga hichō (Secret notebook of caricatures)
Giga hichō ["Secret notebook of caricatures"]
Kimonoashi [preface (and illustrations?) by].
[Japan, preface dated Shōwa 7 (1932)]. Manuscript.
An album of twenty caricatures in pen and ink by an unidentified artist. The work includes a three-leaf preface dated Shōwa 7 (1932) in which political problems in Manchuria are described and the importance of ...
Hana momiji (Flowers and autumn leaves)
Hana momiji ["Flowers and autumn leaves"]
Yamashita, Kōsen [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Miyata Toyamadō, Meiji 34 [1901].
An album of 37 colour woodblock-printed designs for kimono by Yamashita Kōsen. The designs present a creative array of themes including rabbits, birds, umbrellas, landscapes, and insects, and occasionally feature metallic pigments and kar ...
Hana sekai (World of flowers)
Hana sekai ["World of flowers"]
Nonoguchi, Kajō [illustrated by]; Usui, Sukejirō [edited by].
Kyōto: Unsōdō, Meiji 43 [1910].
A collection of fifty kimono designs by Nonoguchi Kajō. The colour woodblock-printed designs feature flowers, birds, rabbits, butterflies, fans, landscapes, bamboo, and other traditional and modern themes. A highlight of the ...
Haru no gyokushō (Spring's excellent compositions)
Haru no gyokushō ["Spring's excellent compositions"]
[Creator unidentified].
[Ōsaka?: Murakami-ten?, Meiji 44 (1911)?].
An unrecorded book of thirty-three designs for New Year's postcards and twelve postcard-sized illustrations in a nanga style. A printed note at the beginning of the book suggests the work was published in Meiji 44 by t ...
Hatsugoromo (First garments)
Hatsugoromo ["First garments"]
Kumagai, Keiun [created by].
Kyōto: Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Meiji 41 [1908].
An album of thirty colour woodblock-printed textile designs produced by the textile artist Kumagai Keiun and the little-known Futaba-kai group. The brief biography of Keiun on p. 28 of the "Ku" section of Dainihon jinbutsushi: ichimei gendai jinmei ...
Heiwa no hana: shinsaku (Flowers of peace: a new work)
Heiwa no hana: shinsaku ["Flowers of peace: a new work"]
Ōyagi, Shungyō [edited by].
Kyōto: Unsōdō, Taishō 9 [1920].
A scarce Unsōdō publication filled with innovative patterns for textiles in collotype. The book was prefaced and edited by the little-known artist Shungyō, who produced at least five other works in the late Meiji to Taishō period with Unsōd ...
Hikobae (Root sprouts)
Hikobae ["Root sprouts"]
Ōta, Saburō [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Seibidō , Meiji 44 [1911].
An album featuring a three-page preface by the artist and seventy full-page illustrations in a variety of media, including half-tones and lithographs, on a variety of papers, several tipped-in. The illustrator, Ōta Saburō (1884-1969, sometimes referred to as Ōta Sa ...
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 ...
Ishō Sekai (World of designs)
Ishō Sekai ["World of designs"]
Yokota, Hankichi [proofread by]; Sawa, Kyūkō ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Tōkyō]: Seibikai, [Meiji 34 (1901)].
Issue two of the magazine Ishō Sekai, published by the Seibikai ("The Exquisite Beauty Association"). The thirteen textile designs (over fifteen pages) included were provided by members of the Seibikai. The use ...
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 ...
Kanamegusa (Vital grasses)
Kanamegusa ["Vital grasses"]
Harada, Fumito [created by].
Tōkyō: Kumagai Daijirō, Meiji 19 [1896].
The only known issue of Kanamegusa, a little-known magazine featuring beautiful colour woodblock-printed illustrations in a Nihonga style of birds, fish, flowers, plants, people, and landscapes. The preface suggests that the illustrations, which are spread ov ...
Kintaichō (A gathering of brocade bags)
Kintaichō ["A gathering of brocade bags"]
Shimomura, Gyokukō [Tamahiro] [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Honda Ichijirō; Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Taishō 10 [1921].
An album of designs for pouches made from brocade fabrics. Such pouches, shifuku, were used in the tea ceremony for tea containers, tea bowls, and other utensils. The colourful pouches were designed by Shim ...
Kokkei manga (Humorous sketches)
Kokkei manga ["Humorous sketches"]
Akatsuki, Kanenari [preface by]; [Santō, Kyōden (illustrated by)].
Ōsaka: Shioya Kisuke, Bunsei 6 [1823].
A re-carved, re-titled, and re-arranged edition of Santō Kyōden's Komon gawa (1790) featuring a new frontispiece and fifteen additional illustrations. Akatsuki no Kanenari I (1793-1860), the artist/author who w ...
Kokkei zuan (Humorous designs)
Kokkei zuan ["Humorous designs"]
Kamisaka, Sekka [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 36 [1903].
An album of amusing patterns and illustrations by the famous designer and Neo-Rinpa artist Kamisaka Sekka (1866–1942). Kokkei zuan was published two years after Sekka was sent by the Japanese government to Glasgow as part ...
Kokon moyō-shū: musō kōeki monchō (Collection of ancient and modern designs: patterns to gain unparalleled profits)
Kokon moyō-shū: musō kōeki monchō ["Collection of ancient and modern designs: patterns to gain unparalleled profits"]
Murakami, Masatake [edited by].
Ōsaka: Maekawa Zenbē, Meiji 18 [1885].
A copperplate-engraved textbook on design, featuring ten pages of colour designs (the colours possibly woodblock-printed), the rest monochrome. Perhaps intended as a ma ...
Kyō saishiki (Colours of the capital)
Kyō saishiki ["Colours of the capital"]
Yamada, Kōun [frontispiece illustrated by], Yamaguchi, Sōsai [wrappers and one illustration designed by], Satō, Shiun, Tabata, Seikō, Tabata, Shiaki [Kihachi III], Kitano, Kashō, Konishi, Akiyama, Inada, Kakō, Rinshun, Takahashi, Tōsen [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Saiyūkai, Kyō Saishiki Hakkōjo, Meiji 41 [1908].
T ...
Kyōto zuan (Kyoto designs)
Kyōto zuan ["Kyoto designs"]
Okada, Shikō, Shimomura, Gyokukō [edited by];
Kyōto: Kyōto Zuan Zasshi Hakkō-bu, Meiji 43 [1910].
Issues 60, 62, and 63 of series 5 of the magazine Kyōto Zuan. Each issue features colourful patterns (some lithographic), monochrome collotype illustrations, and articles on design by contributors.
& ...
Miyako nishiki (Brocades of the capital)
Miyako nishiki ["Brocades of the capital"]
[Ueno, Seikō (illustrated by)?].
Kyōto: Honda Ichijirō, Meiji 32 (1899)].
A collection of inventive designs by an unidentified artist or artists, previously owned by the acclaimed designer and artist Ueno Seikō (1871-1943). The woodblocks for the prints were carved by Kinoshita Yūnosuke and printed by S ...
Miyakogusa (Lotus japonicus)
[Miyakogusa ("Lotus japonicus")]
[Gotō, Ryūkō , Ueno, Seikō , Yamashita, Kōsen, Kobayashi, Gyokunen, Mizuta, Seikō, Shimomura, Gyokukō (Tamahiro) (illustrated by)].
[Kyōto: Honda Unkindō, Meiji 38 (1905)].
An extremely elusive copy of the first volume (presumed all published) of Unkindō's Miyakogusa 'series'. The album features twelve ful ...
Monyo shōhin (Small patterns)
Monyo shōhin ["Small patterns"]
[Tsuda, Seifū (illustrated by)]; Honda, Ichijirō [edited by].
Kyōto: Honda Unkindō, Meiji 33-[35] [1900-(1902)].
A two-volume compendium of woodblock-printed designs and patterns illustrated by the acclaimed graphic designer Tsuda Seifū (1880–1978) and produced by the famous design book publisher Unkindō.& ...
Monyō-sen: moyō zushiki (Selected designs: pattern-illustrations)
Monyō-sen: moyō zushiki ["Selected designs: pattern-illustrations"]
Mori, Kyokurei [edited by].
Kyōto: Okugami Shoshi, Shōwa 5 [1930].
A collection of eighty woodblock-printed designs featuring animals, plants, insects, waves, books, and less conventional objects. The album may also have been published under the title Moyō hyakusen. According t ...
Moyō gajō (Album of patterns)
Moyō gajō ["Album of patterns"]
[Artist unidentified].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. early Shōwa period (1920-40s)?].
An album of fourteen colour woodblock-printed patterns. Six of the patterns feature multiple colours; the remaining eight are single-colour prints. It is possible the prints were removed from a larger volume and bound in handmad ...
Odamaki (Columbine)
Odamaki ["Columbine"]
Dai Nihon Zuan Kyōkai Henshūbu [edited by], Ogiwara, Kunizō [editors represented by]; Komuro, Shinzō [essay by].
Kyōto: Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Meiji 40 [1907].
One of the scarcest zuan ("design") publications on zuan pedagogy. The album features eight designs selected from illustrations exhibited by the Industrial Design Dep ...
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 ...
Orimono shō-e (Textile designs)
Orimono shō-e ["Textile designs"]
[Illustrator unidentified].
[Japan, ca. late Meiji period (1900-10s)]. In manuscript.
An album of over 400 tipped-in textile designs by an unidentified artist. The designs feature flowers, plants, people, landscapes, animals, fans, butterflies, ships, and a variety of other objects. Several feature images of sol ...
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 ...
Patterns for winter clothing
Fuyumono ishō-zukushi ["Various winter clothes"]
Ichibaisai [Morikawa] [Utagawa], Chikashige [illustrated by].
[Edo (Tōkyō)]: Tsuji Kame [Tsunajima Kamekichi], Meiji gannen [1868].
A colourful woodblock print of patterns for winter clothing, probably designed to be cut and folded into some unknown 3D form. The artist, Utagawa Chikashige, was a pupil of Kun ...
Sasei haiga (Poems and illustrations by Sasei)
Sasei haiga ["Poems and illustrations by Sasei"]
Uzuki, Sasei [text and illustrations by].
Tōkyō: Uzuki Sasei, Shōwa 15 [1940].
A loose-leaf album authored, illustrated, and privately published by Uzuki Sasei (active ca. 1920-40s). The album features one woodblockprinted preface, one page of tips for painting haiga (simple illustrations to accompany haiku ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shin zuan (New designs)
Shin zuan ["New designs"]
Kamisaka, Sekka, Kaigai, Tennen ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Gonikai Kyōto Zuan-bu, Meiji 30 [1897].
Issue One of the magazine Shin zuan, featuring ten full-page colour woodblock-printed patterns of plants, flowers, and landscapes. The magazine was published by the Gonikai, a group of Kyoto-based design enthusiasts. ...
Shin zuan (New designs)
Shin zuan ["New designs"]
Kamisaka, Sekka, Kaigai, Tennen ... [et al.] [illustrated by]; Nakayasu, Shinzaburō [edited by].
Kyōto: Fujī Magobē, Meiji 25 [1892].
Issue Nine of Shin zuan, featuring twelve full-page colour woodblock-printed patterns, mainly of plants and flowers. Each artist's name is recorded on each print's verso. Artists ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shūshū (Collection)
Shūshū ["Collection"]
Hirō Shōeidō Ishō-bu [edited by].
Kyōto: Hirō Shōeidō, Shōwa 5 [1930].
Volume five of an interesting series of albums featuring colour woodblock-printed mini-envelopes (pochibukuro). The set was published between Taishō 13 (1924) and Shōwa 5 (1930) and was probably produced by the publisher/editor Hirō Shōeidō to promote the c ...
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