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 ...

Usumurasaki Genji no Somewake ["Dyeing of the Lilac Genji"]

[Toyohara], Kunichika [illustrated by]; Ōta, Komakichi [printing blocks cut by].

Fukagawa Takabashi (Edo): Etsuka, Bunkyū 2 [1862].

A fascinating triptych featuring characters from The Tale of Genji examining a newly purchased sugoroku game sheet based on famous kabuki actors. Searches for the ti ...

[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 ...

Yamakawa Furiwake Sugoroku ["A Game Sheet of Mountains and Rivers Divided"]

Ichiyōsai [Utagawa], Toyokuni [III] [illustrated by].

Akasaka, [Edo (Tōkyō)]: Iseya Kanekichi, [Kōka 4 (1847) - Kaei 5 (1852)].

A scarce multi-ōban sugoroku game sheet by Utagawa Toyokuni III (Utagawa Kunisada) based on scenes from folktales located at mountains or rivers. The squa ...

Yaso Taiji Baka Shinnyū ["Extermination of the Christians: Infiltration of the Idiots"]

Kato, Tomisaburō [edited by].

Ōsaka: Katō Tomisaburō, Meiji 14 [1881]. "New edition".

A mitate banzuke (sheet that ranks people and behaviours in a parody of a sumo ranking sheet) listing the behaviours of Japanese Christians the compiler considers "idiotic". While th ...

[London] : Ye Sette, 1892. 

The menu of the ‘Japanese Night’ dinner held in 1892 by members of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes (an English club of bibliophiles founded by bookdealer Bernard Quaritch in 1878) and attended by many members of the Japan Society. The night is known to have been attended by, amongst others, Narinori Okoshi, Cap ...

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 ...

Yowamushi Korokoro Goton Jūton no Zu ["Roly-Poly Cowards: Pigs with Five Heads and Ten Bodies"]

Seirakusai [Ochiai], Yoshiiku [illustrated by].

[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. Meiji 28 (1895)].

A satirical giga print on the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) featuring, as the title suggests, interjoined Chinese soldiers with a total of ten bodies and five ...

Yukihisa Isobe Exhibition

Isobe, Yukihisa [illustrated by].

Tōkyō: Tokyo Gallery, 1964.

A catalogue from an exhibition of works by Yukihisa Isobe (1935-) held in Tokyo in April of 1964. The card folder features four panels (three on the recto, one on the verso) that open to reveal scenes on loosely inserted cards. The cards can be removed from the outer ...

Zensei Meigi-zoroi ["Full Cast of the Most Popular Geisha"] 

Chōkarō [Utagawa], Yoshiiku [illustrated by].

[Tōkyō]: Iseki [Iseya Kihē], [Meiji 2 (1869)]. 

A colourful woodblock print of elegant geisha and their attendants playing cards, from the Zensei Meigi-zoroi series by Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833-1904).

One leaf, woodblock- ...

Zushū Shuzenji Onsen Meisho Kaisei-zu ["Revised Map of Famous Places in Shuzenji Onsen, Zushū"]

Mantei, Ōga [reproduced by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai ["clearly transcribed" by]. 

[Shizuoka: Gotō Senzō?], Meiji 14 [1881]. 

Printed on one large (34.5 x 51 cm) leaf using a very finely cut woodblock, Zushū Shuzenji Onsen Meisho Kaisei no Zu is an ...

[Untitled advertisement for a machiai-jaya]

[Creator unidentified].

Tōkyō: Nakamanjiya [et al.], [ca. 1868].

An advertisement announcing the joint opening of a machiai-jaya by three pleasure houses—Nakamanjiya, Shinagawaya, and Mikawaya—in Tōkyō Shin-Shimabara, a pleasure quarter established in 1868 and modeled on Kyōto’s Shim ...