Classic Illustrated Books Modern Art and Design Books Translations of Western Texts Japanese Literature Prints and Ephemera Western Books Photo Books Paintings & Scrolls Australia & New Zealand Others
Australia New Zealand Antarctica Japan Korea China Other
Edo Period [1603-1853] Bakumatsu Period [1853-1868] Meiji Period [1868-1912] Taishō Period [1912-1926] Shōwa Period [1926-1989]
Share this book on...
Modern Art and Design Books
| 1 - 50 of 84 : | 1 2 |
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 ...
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 ...
Bijutsukai (Sea of Art)
Bijutsukai ["Sea of Art"]
Yamada, Naosaburō [produced by]; Furuya, Kōrin, Kaigai, Tennen, Kamisaka, Sekka ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 32-38 [1899-1905].
Issues 31-40, 58, 59, 61, 62, and 63 (of 70) of the acclaimed zuan magazine Bijutsukai. Replete with stunning colour woodblock-printed designs for textiles (and occasionally ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hibiki (Reverberations)
Hibiki ["Reverberations"]
[Sugiura, Hisui (designed by)].
[Kyōto: Fushimi Yamamoto-jō, ca. Shōwa period (1930-60s)].
A set of five plates illustrated with a motif designed in 1932 by famed graphic designer and artist Sugiura Hisui (1876-1965) for the cigarette brand Hibiki. The set comes with one of the original cigarette packages (flattened) featu ...
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 were cu ...
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 ...
Kisō Tenrai (Inspired and Bizarre Ideas)
Kisō Tenrai ["Inspired and Bizarre Ideas"]
Miyatake, Gaikotsu [edited by]; [Kitagawa], Utamarō, Hishikawa, Moronobu ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
Ōsaka: Miyatake Gaikotsu, Gazoku Bunko, Meiji 43 [1910].
An album of highly entertaining, if perplexing, illustrations produced by the oft-incarcerated journalist and author Miyatake Gaikotsu (1867-1955). A n ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kyōka Zuan (Designs from the Capital)
Kyōka Zuan ["Designs from the Capital"]
Hasegawa, Keika [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 38 [1905].
The last volume of the zokuhen (the 'sequel' part) of this collection of stunning textile designs by Hasegawa Keika (act. 1892-1905). The creative illustrations, many of which reimagine traditional Japanese motifs, f ...
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 ...
Noshi Shinpon (New Book of Noshi)
Noshi Shinpon ["New Book of Noshi"]
[Compiler unidentified].
[Japan, ca. early Meiji period (1870-90s)].
An album containing approximately 265 tipped-in examples of woodblock-printed noshi. Noshi are folded paper decorations designed to be affixed to wrapped gifts. In earlier times, noshi were strips of dried abalone (symbolising longevity) attached ...
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 ...
Seiei (Essence)
Seiei ["Essence"]
Ueno, Seikō ... [et al.]; Yamada, Naosaburō [edited by].
Kyōto: Unsōdō Gōmei Gaisha, Meiji 40 [1907].
Issue 14 of the design periodical Seiei produced by the famed Kyoto ...
Shin'an Ishō Chikosakura (Chigozakura: New Designs)
Shin'an Ishō Chikosakura ["Chigozakura: New Designs"]
Tanaka, Jihē [edited by].
Kyōto: Tanaka Jihē, Meiji 23 [1890].
Volume one, believed to be all published, of this little-known album of creative designs for embroidery, brush cases, vases, inkstones, weights for hanging scrolls, and other objects. The preface notes that the work was published to s ...
Shina Taikan ["A Compendium of China"]
Fukuda, Bisen [Shūtarō] [text and illustrations by].
Tōkyō: Kanao Bun'endō, Taishō 5 [1916].
A complete set of two volumes by Fukuda Bisen (1875-1963) on the geography, customs, and history of China. The highly illustrated albums cover the Yōsukō (Yangtze River) region and the Kōga (Yellow River) region, whi ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tennen Hyakkaku (Tennen's Hundred Cranes)
Tennen Hyakkaku ["Tennen's Hundred Cranes"]
Kaigai, Tennen [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 34 [1901].
The third and last volume of Kaigai Tennen's Tennen Hyakkaku, featuring twenty woodblock-printed illustrations of cranes in various styles. The illustrations feature the use of metallic pigments and printing techniques including kira ...
The Ten Bulls
The Ten Bulls
Matsumura, K. [Kaiseki] [compiled by]; Wadagaki, K. [Kenzō] [translated by]; Saito, Shoshyu [Saitō, Shōshū] [illustrated by]; Okura, H. [Hanbē] [blocks cut by]; Nishimura, K. [Kumakichi] [hand-printed by].
Tōkyō: Sakura-Shobo, Taishō 3 [1914].
A delightful little book of Zen poems with skilfully woodblock-printed illustrati ...
Tōkaidō gojūsan-tsugi (The fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō)
Tōkaidō gojūsan-tsugi ["The fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō"]
Ichiryūsai [Utagawa], Hiroshige [illustrated by].
[Japan, ca. late Taishō to early Shōwa period (1920-30s)?].
A set of colour woodblock-printed pochi-bukuro (mini-envelopes) featuring adaptations of Utagawa Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō series of ukiyo-e p ...
Untitled album of original paintings and sketches by prominent illustrators
[Untitled album of original paintings and sketches by prominent illustrators]
Matsuda, Seifū, Nonogase, Banka, Hirezaki, Eihō, Mizushima, Niou ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Japan, ca. late Taishō period (1917-1922)?].
An album of original paintings, sketches, caricatures, vignettes (frames, in-text ornaments, etc.), and more by acclaimed illustra ...
Wallpapers for Three Generations, Made in Canada
[Creator not identified].
Kyōbashi, [Tōkyō] : Yabuya Kawashima Fusumagamiten, Taishō 15 [1926].
A catalogue of 26 Canadian wallpaper samples published by Yabuya Kawashima Fusumagamiten, a company predominantly known for selling fusuma (Japanese sliding screen) papers. A number is printed on the verso of each decorative sample, and a price list has been tipped-in b ...
Yo no shirabe (Night melody)
Yo no shirabe ["Night melody"]
Yūgō, Bikutoru [Hugo, Victor] [lyrics by]; Gunō, Sharuru [Gounod, Charles-François] [composed by]; Matsubara, Chikashi [arranged by]; [artist unidentified].
Tōkyō: Bikutā Shuppansha, Shōwa 6 [1931].
A Japanese harmonica score for Charles-François Gounod's Sérénade, which featured as its ly ...
Zuanchō (Album of designs)
Zuanchō ["Album of designs"]
[Takada, Kakushū (illustrated by)?].
Kyōto: Misona, [ca. late Meiji to early Taishō period (1900-10s)?]. In manuscript.
A concertina-folding album of 97 hand-painted designs tipped-in to card leaves. The work is identified as the "ninth collection" on the outer title panel, indicating that the company that produced the d ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Baren
Baren
Yamada, Sadatoshi, Ōki, Reiko, Kobayashi, Yoshito, Tanaka, Michio ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Okayama: Okayama Bijutsu Dōkōkai Hanga Sākuru], 1959-[1961?].
Issues six, eight, nine, and twelve of Baren, an obscure magazine created by (and produced for) members of the Okayama Art Lovers' Printing Circle. Issue six features ten hand- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Hanagasane (Layers of Flowers)
Hanagasane ["Layers of Flowers"]
Ichida, Yaichirō [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Ichida Yaichirō, Meiji 31 [1898].
An album of one hundred colour woodblock-printed kimono designs featuring creative motifs such as toys, flowers, landscapes, armour, fish, musical instruments, deer, birds, people, turtles, and so on. The captioned illustrations occasionally featu ...
| 1 - 50 of 84 : | 12 |
Classic Illustrated Books Modern Art and Design Books Translations of Western Texts Japanese Literature Prints and Ephemera Western Books Photo Books Paintings & Scrolls Australia & New Zealand Others
Australia New Zealand Antarctica Japan Korea China Other
Edo Period [1603-1853] Bakumatsu Period [1853-1868] Meiji Period [1868-1912] Taishō Period [1912-1926] Shōwa Period [1926-1989]
Share this book on...
