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A manuscript report of the death of the Christian 'Uheiji'
[A manuscript report of the death of Uheiji]
Uno, Niemon, Ōwaki, Giuemon ... [et al.] [addressed to].
[Usuki, Bungo Province (current-day Ōita Prefecture)], Kyōhō 11 [1726]. Manuscript.
A document addressed to local officials of the Usuki clan in Bungo Province reporting that Uheiji, the son of Shio (a daughter of "Jirōemon" captured in Kanbun 7 (1667) for ...
A moral lesson on the evils of alcohol
Kōfu sake wo tachite issei no kuwauju to naru ["To become a world-famous scholar after renouncing alcohol"]
[Kobayashi], Toshikazu [illustrated by]; [Tominaga], Toshichika [corrected by].
Tōkyō: Tsuji Keiji: Fukyū sha, Meiji 21 [1888]. "Later printing".
&n ...
A New Year's card from the Japanese communications minister, in French
[Untitled Greeting Card]
[Minister of Communications].
Tōkyō: [Ministry of Communications], 1917.
An illustrated card in French from "Le Ministre des Communications du Japon", wishing the unidentified receiver a H ...
A small set of movable type
[Set of movable type]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan, ca. Meiji period (1870-90s?)].
A small set of hand-cut wooden movable type, probably produced in the Meiji period. The faces of the ninety pieces measure approximately 6 x 6 mm, and all depict kanji characters. The wooden tray is thought to be original. The type was probably used to print books or ...
An Edo period fortune lottery (omikuji) box
[An Edo period omikuji box]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan: workshop unidentified, ca. mid to late Edo period (1700-1850s?)].
A lacquer box used for omikuji fortune telling, hand-crafted in the Edo period. Omikuji boxes, typically used at temples and shrines, contain bamboo strips, each of which is captioned by hand with a different 'level' of luck ...
An untitled collection of kibyōshi title panels
[An untitled collection of kibyōshi title panels]
Kyokutei, Bakin, Jippensha, Ikku, Santō, Kyōden ... [et al.] [original works authored by]; Katsukawa, Shuntei, Utagawa, Toyohiro ... [et al] [illustrated by].
[Edo (Tōkyō)]: Tsuruya Kiemon, Tsutaya Jūzaburō, Nishimura Yohachi ... [et al], [ca. mid-Edo period (1790-1830s?)].
A collection of 27 woodblock-pri ...
An untitled folding object
[An untitled folding object]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan, ca. Meiji period (1870-1910s?)].
An unusual folding object with eight small opening pockets or compartments, two slightly larger pockets, and one large pocket. An intriguing origami-adjacent object made for play or perhaps for storing small items.
One folding object, c ...
Bankoku Meisho-zue: Sekai Ryokō = Illustrated Guide Book for Travellers Round the World
Bankoku Meisho-zue: Sekai Ryokō = Illustrated Guide Book for Travellers Round the World
Aoki, Tsunesaburō [edited by].
Ōsaka: Aoki Tsunesaburō, Meiji 18-19 [1885-1886].
A seven-volume set of copperplate-printed guidebooks for countries around the world. While the books focus on famous landmarks and iconic locations, information on and illustrations of hist ...
Best Sugar
[Japan: maker unidentified, ca. mid-Meiji period (1880-1900)].
A paper envelope used as packaging for "Best Sugar", a product from an unknown manufacturer. The illustration has been woodblock-printed and the Japanese characters lithographically-printed. The use of Roman characters was considered a popular and stylish addition to advertisements in the Meiji period.
Bookman
Bukkuman = Bookman
Tosho Kenkyūkai [produced by].
Tōkyō: Tosho Kenkyūkai, Shōwa 3 [1928].
The November 1928 issue (volume 2, issue 11) of Bookman, a monthly magazine for book lovers advertised as the "Ministry of Home Affairs monthly report on the delivery of books". Aside from numerous essays on books and authors, this issue features an illustration see ...
Bringing Up Father: Jiggs and Maggie, First Collection
"親爺教育: ジグスとマギー, 第一輯"
McManus, George [created by].
Tōkyō : Asahi Shinbunsha, [Taishō 13 (1924)].
The first Japanese language collection of Bringing Up Father cartoons by American illustrator George McManus. Another collection (believed to be the last collection published in Japanese) was produced the following year. The book includes a pream ...
Collection de Pelliot, Manuscrits de Touen-houang
Collection de Pelliot, Manuscrits de Touen-houang
[Transcriber/s and annotator/s unidentified].
[S.l.: s.n., ca. early 20th century].
Possibly a typescript draft of the catalogue of the Pelliot Collection of Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Uighur fragments and manuscripts discovered in China's Dunhuang caves (or 'Mogao Grottoes') by the French ...
Collection of fourteen woodblock prints
[Collection of fourteen prints]
Sekino, Jun'ichirō, Azechi, Umetarō ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Yokohama]: Chikuhōdō, [ca. late Shōwa period (1980-90s?)].
A set of fourteen woodblock-printed designs in a variety of styles by Japanese artists including (but not limited to) Mabuchi Tōru (1920-1994), Maeda Masao (1904-1974), Sekino Jun'ichirō (191 ...
Collection of gōkan envelopes
[Collection of gōkan envelopes]
[Utagawa], Kunisada, [Utagawa], Toyokuni ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Japan: various publishers, ca. late Edo period (1850-60s)?].
A collection of 56 colour woodblock-printed fukuro (envelopes) produced for gōkan (illustrated serial novels). The majority of the fukuro in this collection were created for the no ...
Collection of wooden movable type
[Collection of wooden movable type]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan, ca. Meiji period (1860-1910s)?].
A collection of 243 pieces of wooden movable type hand-cut with katakana and kanji characters. The type, which is housed in a contemporary (but presumed non-original) box, is in three distinct sizes: 13 pieces measure approximately 1.4 (length) x 1.4 ...
Compilation of People from Overseas
Kaigai Jinbutsushū
Nagata, Nankei [text by]; Ikkōsai [Utagawa, Yoshimori] [illustrations by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, preface dated Kaei 7 (1854)].
An album of people and traditional clothing from 42 countries around the world, with brief descriptions of the customs and geography of each country. The set was published as a revised edition of Nishi ...
Curieuse Soirée Fin de Siècle par Les Hommes Mystérieux
Lyon: G. Véronnet, [ca. 1880s].
An advertisement for a theatrical event in Lyon featuring the Mysterious Men, Miss Nelly, Sir Robertson, and Doctor Méphisto, on flat (non-crêped) paper with decorative margins printed in Japan. The illustration features a woman and a child looking up at two cranes while an elderly man ties his shoelaces, missing the sig ...
Dai San-kai Kozeni-shū (Third Collection of Ancient Coins)
Dai San-kai Kozeni-shū ["Third Collection of Ancient Coins"]
Shunka [produced by].
[Japan: Shunka, ca. Taishō to early Shōwa period (1920-30s)?].
A set of twelve woodblock-printed match labels featuring types of ginban - Japanese silver coins used in the Edo period. The text on each card records the year the coin was minted and/or the name of the type of ...
Dai-shin-kufū Zenmai Mawari Kage Tōrō (Grand New Ingenuity: A Spring-Wound Shadow Lantern)
Dai-shin-kufū Zenmai Mawari Kage Tōrō [Grand New Ingenuity: A Spring-Wound Shadow Lantern]
[Creator unidentified].
Horikawa, [Kyōto]: Wakuji, [ca. late Edo period to early Meiji period (1850-70s?)].
An instruction sheet for building a karakuri ningyō - a doll or puppet designed to move using a mechanism but appear as if it is moving independen ...
Deku no Bō (Blockhead)
Deku no Bō ["Blockhead"]
[Kobayashi], Kiyochika [illustrated by]; Koppi, Dōjin [Nishimori, Takeki] [text by].
Tōkyō: Matsuki Heikichi, Meiji 27 [1894].
A fūshiga satirising China's loss of Port Arthur to the Japanese army, from Kiyochika's Hyakusen Hyakushō: Nihon Banzai ("Long Live Japan: One Hundred Victories, One Hundred Laughs") series of prin ...
Die ersten lectionen des Deutschen sprachunterrichts: im gebrauch der Deutschen anfangsclassen der Kaiserlich-Japanesischen Academie von Daïgaku-Nankō
Die Ersten Lectionen des Deutschen Sprachunterrichts: im Gebrauch der Deutschen Anfangsclassen der Kaiserlich-Japanesischen Academie von Daïgaku-Nankō
Daigaku Nankō [edited by].
Jedo [Tōkyō]: Daigaku Nankō, 1870.
The first German primer to be published in Japan, and the second German study book overall to be published in Japan (after 官版独逸単語篇 (Ka ...
Dōhan gashū (Album of copperplate prints)
Dōhan gashū ["Album of copperplate prints"]
[Illustrator unidentified].
[Japan: Naitō Den'uemon, ca. early to mid-Meiji period (1870-80s)].
An album of 94 tipped-in copperplate prints from Uchida Masao's 13-volume geography textbook Yochi shiryaku ("A Compilation of Geographical Knowledge"). The prints, which were based on images found in Western ...
Edo meibutsu: nishikie kōsaku (The cultivation of brocade prints, a famous product of Edo)
Edo meibutsu: nishikie kōsaku ["The cultivation of brocade prints, a famous product of Edo"]
[Kitagawa], Utamarō [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. early to mid Shōwa period (1930-60s)?].
A woodblock-printed reproduction of the central print from Utamarō's Edo meibutsu: nishikie kōsaku triptych. The triptych was originally published ...
Educational Illustration Published by the Ministry of Education: Screw
[Kuniteru II (illustrated by).
Tōkyō: Monbushō Seihonjo, Meiji 6 (1873)].
An illustrated explanation of screws, featuring an image of a Western book press. One diptych from a series of prints published by the bookbinding division of the Ministry of Education in the 1870s.
Diptych, complete. Foxing, repairs to some wormholes, centre fold, a ...
Examples of Fröbel Gifts (Fröbelgaben) compiled by a kindergarten teacher in-training
[Untitled set of volumes on kindergarten play methods]
Maeda, Rie [transcribed by].
[Japan, ca. Meiji 29 (1896)]. Manuscript.
A collection of three manuscript volumes providing samples of four paper play methods and instructions for kindergarten teachers. The volumes are numbered "two", "three", and "five", and it is unclear how many volumes were in the or ...
Firefighting gear from Setagaya, Tokyo
[Firefighting gear from Setagaya, Tokyo]
[Creator/s unidentified].
[Tōkyō, ca. Meiji to early Shōwa period (1880-1920s)?].
A set of four hoods, one pair of gloves, and one jacket used by firemen working in Setagaya, Tokyo. The items, which probably date from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, were made using sashiko hand embroidery and aizom ...
Five copperplate-printed maps of places in Japan
[Five copperplate-printed maps of places in Japan]
[Shuntōsai (Okada Suigetsudō)] ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Japan: various publishers, ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1840-60s)?].
A set of five maps of locations in Japan, copperplate-printed in the late Edo period to early Meiji period. The set includes one map of the city of Kyoto, one of the ci ...
Fujin Sokuhatsu no Hinagata (Models of Chignons for Women)
Fujin Sokuhatsu no Hinagata ["Models of Chignons for Women"]
Ashihara, Kuninao [illustrated by].
Nihonbashi, [Tōkyō]: [Inoue Kichijirō], Meiji 18 [1885].
A nishiki-e providing instructions for creating five foreign hairstyles: the "Western up-do", the "Western low-style", the "Italian style", the "Italian low-style", and the "twisted thread style". Western ...
Fuku Wakashi: Takara no Iribune (New Year's Luck at Boiling Point: Arrival of the Treasure Ship)
Fuku Wakashi: Takara no Iribune ["New Year's Luck at Boiling Point: Arrival of the Treasure Ship"]
Ikeda, Fusajirō [edited by]; [illustrator unidentified]
[Kyōto]: Ikeda Fusajirō, Meiji 17 [1884].
An illustrated compilation of zashiki-gei (party tricks) styled as a sugoroku (game sheet). The sheet may have been part of a party game in which particip ...
Fukubiki Ōiri
[Illustrator not identified].
[Japan : (publisher not identified), ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1810-1870s)?].
A woodblock carved on both sides used to print a fukubiki lottery game. Fukubiki was a "popular pastime involving the drawing of lots or some similar method to win prizes".¹ This particular woodblock would have been used for a fukubiki game ca ...
Fūryū Itsutsu Karigane (The Refined Karigane Five)
Fūryū Itsutsu Karigane ["The Refined Karigane Five"]
Gototei [Utagawa], Kunisada [illustrated by].
[Tōkyō]: Izumi Ichi [Izumiya Ichibē], [ca. Bunsei 11 - Tenpō 2 (1828-1831)].
A complete pentatych by Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III, 1786-1865) featuring five beautiful women as the Itsutsu Karigane - the "five karigane blood-brothers" or the "Karigan ...
Gōshū Nanpō Tairiku Oyobi Nyūjīrando Chōhakuun
Tsuchiya, Motosaku. Osaka: Asahi Shinbunsha, Taishō 5 [1916]. First edition. A detailed photographic record of the cultures and geographies of Australia and New Zealand, for Japanese readers, with many black and white photographic illustrations of the native animals, landscapes, cities, and indigenous peoples of the two countries. The book includes images of famous Australian ...
Hanging scroll by Tsuda Seifū
[Hanging scroll by Tsuda Seifū]
Tsuda, Seifū [painted by].
[Japan], Shōwa 47 [1972]. In manuscript.
A hanging scroll featuring a self-portrait painted by the highly acclaimed artist and graphic designer Tsuda Seifū (1880-1978) when he was 93. The calligraphy (also by Seifū) includes references to tanroku-bon, the shinnai jōruri song Ranchō, and the Car ...
Hanging scroll of two rabbits
[Hanging scroll of two rabbits]
[Kitazawa], Rakuten [painted by].
[Japan, ca. late Meiji to Taishō period (1900-20s)?]. In manuscript.
A hanging scroll painted by the manga artist Kitazawa Rakuten (1876-1955), featuring two rabbits in snow, an arrow, and the Japanese proverb "He who chases two hares catches neither". Rakuten was an influential cartoonist a ...
Hashimotoya Shiraito no Hanashi (The Story of Shiraito of Hashimoto-ya)
Hashimotoya Shiraito no Hanashi ["The Story of Shiraito of Hashimoto-ya"]
[Tsukioka], Yoshitoshi [illustrated by].
Bakurochō, [Tōkyō]: Tsunajima Kamekichi, Meiji 19 [1886].
An ōban diptych of the courtesan Shiraito at the Hashimoto-ya pleasure house, from the Shinsen Azuma Nishiki-e ("Newly Selected Brocade Pictures of the East") series by the acclaimed uk ...
Hicchō-jō (An album of spontaneous brushstrokes)
Hicchō-jō ["An album of spontaneous brushstrokes"]
Yamamoto, Gyōhō, Kobayashi, Eikō ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Japan, ca. late Meiji period (1907?)]. Manuscript.
An album of paintings and calligraphic works by ten artists and calligraphers. The volume includes calligraphy by Nakane Hanrei (1831-1914), Nagasaka Sekitai (1845-1924), and Yoshida Banka (d ...
Hikanyakuōen (Medicine for the liver and spleen)
Hikanyakuōen ["Medicine for the liver and spleen"]
Ishida, Katsuhide [produced by].
Kyōto: Ishida Katsuhide, [revised in Meiji 28 (1895)].
A colour woodblock-printed leaf featuring information on Hikanyakuōen, a type of medicine claimed by the manufacturers to cure various issues with internal organs. The symptoms pictured in the lower half of the print ar ...
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 ...
Hitojichi henkan: jizai kyōikuhō zukai (Transformation of a person's temperament: free education method, illustrated)
Hitojichi Henkan: Jizai Kyōikuhō Zukai ["Transformation of a Person's Temperament: Free Education Method, Illustrated"]
Mihara, Muneaki [book being advertised authored by].
Okayama: Ritsuma Akiko, [ca. Meiji 21 (1888)].
A copperplate-engraved advertisement for the publication of a work on phrenology by Mihara Muneaki. The misspelled English subt ...
Hittatsu Sensei Bokumyō (Exquisite Paintings by Teacher Hittatsu
Hittatsu Sensei Bokumyō ["Exquisite Paintings by Teacher Hittatsu"]
Kunii, [Seinosuke] [illustrated by]; Fuyō, Mokuyō [Suzuki, Fuyō] [postscript by?].
Hamura, [Edo (Tokyo)?], Bunka 10 [1813]. In manuscript.
A handscroll by the artist Kunii Seinosuke of landscapes and birds in a nanga or bunjinga (literati painting) style. Kunii (dates of birth and death un ...
Hōmā Monogatari (Tales from Homer)
Hōmā Monogatari ["Tales from Homer"]
Homer [original works attributed to]; Kikuchi, Kan [translated by]; Honda, Shōtarō, Unno [Umino?], Seikō, Asano, Kaoru [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Bungei Shunjūsha, Shōwa 4 [1929].
A highly illustrated translation by celebrated author Kikuchi Kan (1888-1948) of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Two colour illustrated plates, ...
Honchō Furisode no Hajime: Susanoo-no-Mikoto Yōkai Gōbuku no Zu
本朝振袖之始 素盞烏尊妖怪降伏之圖 [Honchō Furisode no Hajime: Susanoo-no-Mikoto Yōkai Gōbuku no Zu, “Susanoo no Mikoto Subdues the Yōkai in Honchō Furisode no Hajime”]
Edogawa [Katsushika], Hokki [illustrated by].
[Japan: unidentified publisher, ca. Kaei 4 (1851)].
A yoko-ōban nishiki-e by Katsushika Hokki (years of birth and death unknown), a pupi ...
Honour in a Loyal Death: the Great Fire at the Hosokawa Residence
"細川家大火忠死誉"
Kōchōrō, Kunisada [Utagawa, Kunisada III (illustrated by)]; Kawatake, Shinshichi III [original play by].
Nihonbashi, [Tōkyō] : Fukuda Kumajirō, Meiji 22 [1889].
A triptych by Utagawa Kunisada III (1848–1920) depicting the most famous scene from the kabuki play Tsutamoyō Chizome no Goshuin (蔦模様血染御書, “The Ivy-Patterned Bl ...
Hyakunin Isshu karuta
[Hyakunin Isshu karuta]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan, ca. Edo period (1750-1850s)?]. In manuscript.
A complete set of two hundred Hyakunin Isshu playing cards (karuta). The Hyakunin Isshu card game (a form of uta-garuta ("poetry karuta")) is based on the anthology of one hundred waka poems by one hundred poets compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in the thirtee ...
Imayō Mitate Hori Suri Ryōkō no Zu [A Modern-day Adaptation Picturing Carving and Printing]
Imayō Mitate Hori Suri Ryōkō no Zu ["A Modern-day Adaptation Picturing Carving and Printing"]
Utagawa, Kunisada [Toyokuni III] [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. Taishō period (1910-20s)?].
A simplified Taishō-era (?) reproduction of the triptych Imayō Mitate Shi-Nō-Kō-Shō: Shokunin ("A Modern-day Adaptation of the Four Classe ...
Information on the Fifth Miyabi-kai
Kyōto: Miyabi-kai, [ca. 1920-30s].
An early Shōwa period invitation to an exhibition of fabrics with new dyeing and weaving designs held by the Miyabi-kai. Information about the location and time of the event appears in the illustration of the gramophone and its base when the lower moving section of the card is revolved.
One card, complete. Light di ...
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 ...
John Orr Ewing & Co. Best Turkey Scarlet: H. Ahrens & Co., Yedo, Yokohama & Hiogo
[Japan]: H. Ahrens & Co., [ca. 1870-1910].
A piece of packaging for 'Turkey red' (a colour used to dye cotton fabrics) with a lithographic label tipped-in. H. Ahrens & Co. was a German trading company based in Tōkyō with branches in Yokohama and Kōbe. John Orr Ewing & Co. was the name of a prominent Turkey red firm in Scotland.
O ...
Joreishiki no Zu (Illustrations of Ladies' Etiquette)
Joreishiki no Zu ["Illustrations of Ladies' Etiquette"]
[Yasui], Kotō [illustrated by].
Nihonbashi, [Tōkyō]: Matsuno Yonejirō, Meiji 28 [1895].
A colour woodblock-printed album of scenes of elegant Japanese ladies engaging in traditionally appropriate pastimes and ceremonies. The fourteen scenes spread over eight leaves picture women exchanging N ...
Kaichū Jūhō (Important Treasures, Pocket-Sized)
Kaichū Jūhō ["Important Treasures, Pocket-Sized"]
[Creator/s unidentified].
Ōsaka: Honya Kitarō, [ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1840-60s)?].
A portable booklet of charts and volvelles used in astrology for fortune-telling, featuring six woodblock-printed panels. Three of the panels feature intact volvelles used to quickly determine days and ...
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