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Sekai Kokumei-zukushi [Compendium of the Countries of the World]
Sekai Kokumei-zukushi [Compendium of the Countries of the World]
[Illustrator unidentified].
[Edo (Tōkyō): Fujiokaya Keijirō, ca. 1844-1856].
An apparently unrecorded colour woodblock print depicting a series of vignettes representing foreign countries. Curiosity about the wider world increased during the closing decades of the Edo period as Japan experien ...
[Yugiri]
[Yūgiri]
[Shima], Seien [illustrated by].
[Tōkyō: Dai Chikamatsu Zenshū Kankōkai, 1923?].
A large (dai-ōban) woodblock print by the prominent painter Shima Seien (1892–1970), depicting Yūgiri, the courtesan heroine of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's Yūgiri Awa no Naruto. The print was originally issued with the sixteen-volume Dai Chikamatsu Zenshū (T ...
Seiei [Essence]
Seiei [Essence]
Ueno, Seikō ... [et al.]; Yamada, Naosaburō [edited by].
Kyōto: Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Meiji 40 [1907].
Issue 14 of the design periodical Seiei produced by the famed Kyoto-based zuan publisher Unsōdō. The issue features an index and ten stunning double-page woodblock-printed designs by acclaimed graphic designers and artists including Ueno Se ...
Shu no Kigen: Seizon Kyoso Tekisha Seizon no Genri [The Origin of Species: The Principle of Survival of the Fittest in the Struggle for Existence]
Shu no Kigen: Seizon Kyōsō Tekisha Seizon no Genri [The Origin of Species: The Principle of Survival of the Fittest in the Struggle for Existence]
Darwin, Charles [original text by]; Oka, Asajirō [translated and revised by].
Tōkyō: Tōkyō Kaiseikan, Meiji 38 [1905].
An early and influential Japanese edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species ( ...
A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft: So Farre Forth as it is Reuealed in the Scriptures, and Manifest by True Experience
A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft: So Farre Forth as it is Reuealed in the Scriptures, and Manifest by True Experience
Perkins, William (framed and delivered by); Pickering, Thomas (published by).
[Cambridge]: Printed by Cantrell Legge, Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1609.
Written by English Puritan theologian William Perkins as a& ...
[Untitled manuscript of fortress diagrams]
[Untitled manuscript of fortress diagrams]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan, ca. Edo period]. In manuscript.
A manuscript handbook on Japanese castle planning and military engineering from the Edo period. The volume contains numerous nawabari (castle layout plans), together with diagrams and annotations illustrating moats (hori), sewage and drainage cha ...
Seiyo Chie Ita Zukai Tsuketaru Zu Tehon = Ninety New Moveable Puzzles
Seiyō Chie Ita Zukai Tsuketaru Zu Tehon = Ninety New Moveable Puzzles
Itabe, Masashichi [translated by].
Ōsaka: [Kanshōdō], Meiji 10 [1877].
A charming and unusual Meiji-period introduction to Western style dissection puzzles, adapted from the English Ninety New Moveable Puzzles, published in London by Joseph, Myers, & Co. in the mid-nineteenth century ...
Yizhi Tu [Enhanced Intelligence Diagrams]
Yizhi Tu [Enhanced Intelligence Diagrams]
Tong, Xiegeng [created by].
[China]: Hulin Ren shi, Qing Guangxu 4 nian [1878].
A scarce first edition of this two-volume Chinese collection of yizhi tu puzzles devised by Tong Xiegeng. While the typical tangram puzzle uses seven pieces, Tong Xiegeng's puzzle uses fifteen pieces, several of which are curved, re ...
[Untitled painting with three fruit studies]
[Untitled painting with three fruit studies]
[Shōji], Chikushin [et al.] [illustrations attributed to].
[Japan, ca. mid- to late-Meiji period (1870s-1890s?)]. In manuscript.
A brush-and-ink painting comprising three studies of fruit, one bearing the signature "Chikushin", referring to Shōji Chikushin (1854–1936), together with two further studies sig ...
[Collection of nineteen fan prints]
[Collection of nineteen fan prints]
[Shōji], Chikushin [illustrated by].
[Japan, ca. mid- to late-Meiji period (1870s-1890s?)].
A collection of nineteen sensu fan designs by Shōji Chikushin (1854–1936), a leading pupil of the celebrated artist Shibata Zeshin. Most, if not all, are woodblock printed, and many are enhanced with metallic pigments. One d ...
Gonin no Kakube, Junin no Hataraki [Five Kakubei Doing the Work of Ten]
Gonin no Kakube, Jūnin no Hataraki [Five Kakubei Doing the Work of Ten]
Ippōsai, Yoshifuji [illustrated by].
[Tōkyō]: Isetatsu, [ca. Taishō to early Shōwa period (ca. 1910s-1930s)].
After a design by Ippōsai Yoshifuji, this unusual woodblock print depicts a jumble of Kakubei-jishi performers. Five heads are ingeniously arranged so that each appears to bel ...
Shunshoku Kogane no Hana [Flowers of Gold: The Colour of Spring]
Shunshoku Kogane no Hana [Flowers of Gold: The Colour of Spring]
Ryūtei, Tanehiko [III] [text by]; Bōsai [Toda], Shūgetsu [illustrated by].
Kyōbashi, [Tōkyō]: Kyōryūsha, Meiji 17 [1884].
A short novel by Ryūtei Tanehiko III (Takabatake Ransen), illustrated by Toda Shūgetsu with anthropomorphised cats. In his preface, the author pays tribute to celebr ...
Tehon Ikkan Zeshin-ō Kohitsu [One Old Scroll of Model Drawings from the Brush of the Venerable Zeshin]
Tehon Ikkan Zeshin-ō Kohitsu [One Old Scroll of Model Drawings from the Brush of the Venerable Zeshin]
[Shibata], Zeshin [illustrated by]; [Shōji], Chikushin [authenticated by].
[Japan, ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1850s-1890s)?]. In manuscript.
A signed handscroll of simple yet charming drawings depicting playing cards, toys, cooking implements, an ...
Wayo Kijinden: Shohen [Notable Figures from Japan and the West: First Series]
Wayō Kijinden: Shohen [Notable Figures from Japan and the West: First Series]
Jōno, Takashige [text by], Ochiai [Utagawa], Yoshiiku [illustrations by].
Tōkyō: Sanshobō, Meiji 5 [1872].
An international take on the kijinden ("eccentric figures" or "extraordinary figures") genre, featuring portraits and brief biographies of a total of 37 Japanese and Wes ...
[Untitled woodblock print of an Ichikawa family kabuki actor]
[Untitled woodblock print of an Ichikawa family kabuki actor]
[Katsukawa], Shunjō [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. An'ei to Tenmei period (1778-1787)].
A hosoban woodblock print by the Edo period artist Katsukawa Shunjō (active c. 1778-1787), possibly depicting the kabuki actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Aoto Gorō. The figure stands ...
Kagetsujo [Kagetsu's Album]
Kagetsujō [Kagetsu's Album]
Kireiken [Itō, Genbei] [edited by]; Kamo no Suetaka [preface by]; [Kano, Eigaku] [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Japan: privately published, 1836?]. Presumed later printing.
An unusual later issue of one of the finest illustrated erotic books produced in Japan during the late Edo period. Conceived by Itō Genbei (1778–?) un ...
Yusai Gafu [Yusai's Painting Album]
Yūsai Gafu [Yūsai's Painting Album]
Nakabayashi, Chikutō [illustrated by].
Kōto [Kyōto]: Hishiya Magobē, Kōka 3 [1846].
One of several distinct works published under the title Yūsai Gafu during the late Edo period, this album was illustrated by Nakabayashi Chikutō (1776–1853), one of the foremost painters of the Japanese literati (Nanga) tradi ...
Nouvelles Compositions Decoratives, Premiere Serie [New Decorative Compositions, First Series]
Nouvelles Compositions Décoratives, 1re Série [New Decorative Compositions, First Series]
Gladky, Serge [illustrated by]; Rémon, Georges [introduction by].
Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, [ca. 1928–1930?].
A complete portfolio comprising an introduction by Georges Rémon and forty-eight colour pochoir plate ...
Showa Bijo Sugata Kurabe: Benisomezuki, Shusho [Competing Beauties of the Showa Era: The Eighth Month, Lingering Heat]
Shōwa Bijo Sugata Kurabe: Benisomezuki, Shūsho [Competing Beauties of the Shōwa Era: The Eighth Month, Lingering Heat]
[Watanabe], Ikuharu [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. early Shōwa period (1927-1930?)].
A beautiful woman attempts to keep cool in this attractive dai-ōban print by Watanabe Ikuharu (1895–1975). The beauty holds ...
Natsukusa [Summer Grasses]
Natsukusa [Summer Grasses]
Tsuda, Seifū [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Meiji 37 [1904].
One of the scarcest works by the highly regarded artist and graphic designer Tsuda Seifū (1880–1978), Natsukusa contains thirty woodblock-printed designs for uchiwa fans. Produced early in Seifū's career, the book already shows the strong sense ...
Setsuyoshu [Collection for Practical Use]
Setsuyōshū [Collection for Practical Use]
Ekirin [recorded by].
[Kyōto]: Ekirin, postscript dated Keichō 2 [1597].
A landmark Japanese dictionary of the late sixteenth century, the Ekirin-bon Setsuyōshū ranks among the most important and influential works in the history of Japanese lexicography. The edition takes its name from the final line of text ("Re ...
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Marx, Karl, Engels, Frederick [text by].
London: William Reeves, [1927]. "6th impression".
The so-called "sixth impression" of the first authorised English translation of the Communist Manifesto. Although the upper wrapper is dated 1888 and describes the work as a sixth impression, bibliographical research suggests that the present ...
[Otokodate Junin-zoroi (Ten Chivalrous Men)]
[Otokodate Jūnin-zoroi (Ten Chivalrous Men)]
[Toyohara], Kunichika [illustrated by].
[Edo (Tōkyō)]: Izutsuya [Shōkichi], Keiō Gannen [1865].
A selection of five prints from Toyohara Kunichika's Otokodate Jūnin-zoroi (Ten Chivalrous Men), a ten-print series portraying leading kabuki actors as famous otokodate, the gallant commoners of Edo popular fict ...
Atago-yama no Zu [Illustration of Atago Hill]
Atago-yama no Zu [Illustration of Atago Hill]
Kobayashi, Kiyochika [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. Meiji 11 (1878)].
An early example of a kōsen-ga (light-ray picture) by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915), this view from the summit of Atago Hill looks out across Tokyo toward the bay. In the foreground, a man in Western dress sits smokin ...
Kagoshima Onna Suikoden [A Suikoden of Kagoshima Women]
Kagoshima Onna Suikoden [A Suikōden of Kagoshima Women]
Toyohara, Kunichika [illustrated by].
Umamichi, [Tōkyō]: Kodama Yashichi, Meiji 10 [1877].
This colourful triptych by Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900) transforms the Satsuma Rebellion (1877) into an imagined kabuki spectacle. In a striking exercise in theatrical imagination, Kunichika recasts ...
Untitled album of match labels
[Untitled album of match labels]
Oda, Shūichi ... [et al] [commissioned by].
[Japan: privately published, ca. Shōwa 2-15 (1927-1940)].
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 ...
Untitled advertisement for Kyoryusha
[Untitled advertisement for Kyōryūsha]
Ryūtei, Tanehiko [text by]; [Nagai], Sogaku [calligraphy by]; [Ogata], Gekkō, [Inano], Toshitsune, [Takimura], Hirokata [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Kyōryūsha, Meiji 18 [1885].
A colour woodblock-printed advertisement for the Tokyo publisher Kyōryūsha, with text by acclaimed author Ryūtei Tanehiko and illustrat ...
Sochu Kakifu [Illustrated Manual of Flowers and Insects]
Sōchū Kakifu [Illustrated Manual of Flowers and Insects]
Wang, Shi, Wang, Gai, Wang, Nie [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Hishiya Magobē/Gosharō, [ca. late Edo period (1810s-1850s?)].
The fourth and final section of Hishiya Magobē's twenty-three-volume wakoku-bon (Japanese woodblock edition) of the celebrated Kaishien Gaden (Manual of the Mustard Seed G ...
Bijin no Kaisuiyoku [A Beautiful Woman at the Beach]
[Bijin no Kaisuiyoku (A Beautiful Woman at the Beach)]
[Terasaki], Kōgyō [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. mid Shōwa period (1950s-1970s)?].
A woman enjoys a sunny day out at the beach in this woodblock print after a design by Terasaki Kōgyō (1866–1919). The original image appeared as a kuchi-e (frontispiece) in Bungei Kurabu maga ...
Misei Gashu [Collection of Illustrations by Misei]
Misei Gashū [Collection of Illustrations by Misei]
[Kosugi], Misei [illustrated by].
[Japan, ca. 1908?]. In manuscript.
A manuscript collection of illustrations by Kosugi Misei (1881–1964), also known as Kosugi Hōan. Although titled Misei Gashū, portions of the manuscript correspond closely to sections published in Misei's Manga to ...
Compositions, Couleurs, Idées
Compositions, Couleurs, Idées
Delaunay, Sonia [illustrated by].
Paris: Editions d'art Charles Moreau, [1930?].
The complete set of forty pochoir-coloured plates by Sonia Delaunay, issued as a portfolio of designs for textiles, wallpapers, and other decorative applications. One of the central figures of the Parisian avant-garde, Delaunay pl ...
Waei Taiyaku Shotoku Ruirei = Examples of English Translations of Official Correspondence, Prepared for Student Interpreters: Part I
Waei Taiyaku Shotoku Ruirei = Examples of English Translations of Official Correspondence, Prepared for Student Interpreters: Part I
Mutsu, Munemitsu [arranged by]; Ka, Kōgo [edited by].
Kanagawa: Kanagawa-ken [Kanagawa Prefecture], 1873.
A fascinating record of the practical, diplomatic, and cultural challenges faced by the Japanese government in the earl ...
[Untitled tsuba]
[Untitled tsuba]
[Unidentified craftsperson].
[Japan: workshop unidentified, ca. Edo to early Meiji period (18th to mid-19th century)?].
A fascinating iron tsuba (sword guard) for a katana, forged in the late Edo to early Meiji period and decorated with books, a scroll, and flowering plants. One side depicts the fronts of the books and scroll, while the re ...
Matsui Toshu Sensei Gashu [Collection of Illustrations by Master Matsui Toshu]
Matsui Tōshū Sensei Gashū [Collection of Illustrations by Master Matsui Tōshū]
Matsui, Tōshū [illustrated by].
[Japan], Taishō 5 [1916]. In manuscript.
An accordion-folding album containing twelve double-page paintings attributed to the artist and designer Matsui Tōshū, each bearing his seal, with the final painting signed and dated. Tōshū is best kn ...
Fuzoku Sanjuni-so: Yuho ga Shitaso, Meiji-nenkan Saikun no Fuzoku [Thirty-two Aspects of Customs and Manners: A Wife of a Nobleman of the Meiji Period, Looking Like She Wants to Go for a Stroll]
Fūzoku Sanjūni-sō: Yūho ga Shitasō, Meiji-nenkan Saikun no Fūzoku [Thirty-two Aspects of Customs and Manners: A Wife of a Nobleman of the Meiji Period, Looking Like She Wants to Go for a Stroll]
[Tsukioka], Yoshitoshi [illustrated by].
Nihonbashi, [Tōkyō]: Tsunajima Kamekichi, Meiji 21 [1888] [first edition, later state].
A finely woodblock-printed por ...
Gaikoku Zoshohyo: Kan [Foreign Bookplates: Complete]
Gaikoku Zōshohyō: Kan [Foreign Bookplates: Complete]
Kitamura, M. [compiled by?].
[Japan, ca. 1920s].
An album of 29 foreign bookplates compiled by the Japanese enthusiast "M. Kitamura", whose own bookplate is affixed to the upper pastedown and who has annotated several examples with the names of their bibliophile owners, artists, and donors. Included are ...
[Untitled oil painting]
[Untitled oil painting]
Broadhurst, Florence [painted by].
[Australia, ca. 1920-50s?].
A signed oil painting by Australian artist Florence Broadhurst (1899-1977) of the "red sand-stone hills near Alice Springs", accompanied by a letter from the artist to a Japanese man (Mr. Kawasaki) who had ordered the painting in Brisbane. Broadhurst visited (and may hav ...
Japonská Pohádka o Dvou Dědcích [A Japanese Tale of Two Old Men]
Japonská Pohádka o Dvou Dědcích [A Japanese Tale of Two Old Men]
Havlasa, Jan [text by]; Šaloun, Lad. [Ladislav] [illustrated by].
Prague: B. Kocí, [ca. 1919].
An adaptation of the Japanese folktale Hanasaka Jiisan (The Old Man Who Made the Withered Trees Bloom) for a Central European audience, illustrated with char ...
[Untitled album of hand-painted postcards]
[Untitled album of hand-painted postcards]
[Asaka], Tairin [hand-painted by].
[Japan, ca. 1910-11]. In manuscript.
A collection of 83 hand-painted postcards (and one woodblock-printed postcard) by the artist and satirical cartoonist Asaka Tairin. Although little is known about Tairin's life, it is recorded that he produced designs for commercial ...
[Gyofu (Fisherman)]
[Gyofu (Fisherman)]
[Yamamoto], Kanae [illustrated by]; [Hashimoto, Okiie (printed by)].
[Japan: Hashimoto Okiie, 1960].
A 1960 memorial edition printing of Fisherman by pioneering sōsaku hanga artist Yamamoto Kanae (1882–1946). The Cleveland Museum of Art provides the following description of the original work:
"This modest pr ...
Untitled kabuki print
[Untitled kabuki print]
Ichiyūsai [Utagawa], Kuniyoshi [illustrated by].
[Edo (Tōkyō)]: Jōkin [Jōshūya Kinzō], [ca. 1847-1853].
A vivid colour woodblock-printed ōban yoko-e by Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicting characters from the kabuki play Shibaraku (or a work derived from it). The composition is dominated by the dramatic kumadori makeup and the promin ...
Chiyo no Nishiki [Brocades of a Thousand Generations]
Chiyo no Nishiki [Brocades of a Thousand Generations]
Taguchi, Bairei [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Toyamadō, Meiji 33 [1900].
Volume one (of two) of this colour woodblock-printed zuan series by Taguchi Bairei, a Kyoto-based nihonga painter active in both fine and applied arts. The volume features twenty-five creative designs, many of which use metallic pigme ...
Zuan Fukusa Awase (Design Combinations for Fukusa)
[Zuan Fukusa Awase (Design Combinations for Fukusa)]
Kajita, Hanko, Kawabata, Gyokushō ... [et al.] [illustrated by]; [Nagai, Sogaku, Kubota, Beisen (edited by)].
[Tōkyō: Ōkura Shōten, Meiji 27 (1894)].
A curated album of colour woodblock-printed designs for tea ceremony fukusa, assembled from two volumes of Zuan fukusa awase. In the tea ...
Kotatsu
[Kotatsu (Heated table)]
[Itō], Shinsui [illustrated by].
[Tōkyō]: Watanabe, Shōwa 6 [1931].
Kotatsu, a woodblock print designed by Itō Shinsui and published by Watanabe Shōzaburō in 1931 as part of the series Gendai Bijin-shū: Dai-ni-shū (Collection of Modern Beauties: Second Series), depicts a young woman seated in a kotatsu (heated table covered by a ...
Fūryū Waka Sannin: Migi
Fūryū Waka Sannin: Migi [Three Fashionable Young People: Right]
Kikukawa, Eizan [illustrated by].
[Edo (Tōkyō): Yamatoya Jūbē, ca. Bunka 9-11 (1812–1814)].
A sophisticated woman sits absorbed in a Hyakunin Isshu or Sanjūrokkasen book, her coat casually draped over a hanging rack beside her. In a quiet moment between tasks, she pauses to immerse ...
Untitled photograph of the premises of T.I. Yonemitsu, Jeweler & Watchmaker
[Untitled photograph of the premises of "T.I. Yonemitsu, Jeweler & Watchmaker"]
[Photographer unidentified].
[Vancouver: studio unidentified, ca. 1930-40s].
A curious photograph of the owner, cigarette in hand, and premises at 220 Main Street, Vancouver, of the Japanese watchmaker and jeweler T.I. Yonemitsu. An advertisement for "Big Ben: rings on ...
Daishō Koyori Te-asobi: Mukashi Arishi Jūnikagetsu (Hand-play with Big and Small Twisted Paper Strings: The Twelve Months of Olden Times)
Daishō Koyori Te-asobi: Mukashi Arishi Jūnikagetsu [Hand-play with Big and Small Twisted Paper Strings: The Twelve Months of Olden Times]
Baiso [created by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. early Meiji period (1860-80s)?].
Popular in the Edo and Meiji periods, daishō goyomi were calendars that revealed through picture-puzzles which month ...
Tenth Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Lithographs, Serigraphs, Stencils, Intaglio, Combined Medium, Concrete, Iron and Woodblock Prints
Tenth Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Lithographs, Serigraphs, Stencils, Intaglio, Combined Medium, Concrete, Iron and Woodblock Prints
College Women's Association of Japan [produced by].
Tokyo: College Women's Association of Japan, 1965.
A catalogue for the tenth annual print exhibition organized by the College Women's Association of ...
Kikkō-shū (Album of Auspicious Light)
Kikkō-shū [Album of Auspicious Light]
[Tatsumura, Heizō (illustrated by); Yosano, Akiko (poetry by)].
Kyōto: Takashimaya Gofukuten, [preface dated Shōwa 4 (1929)].
A fascinating intersection between poetry, art, and fabrics, this unusual work records 35 obi designs by textile artist Tatsumura Heizō paired with poems by famous poet Yosano Aki ...
Hana Yujo Suikoden [A Suikoden of Beautiful and Brave Women]
Hana Yūjo Suikoden [A Suikoden of Beautiful and Brave Women]
Ōju [Toyohara], Kunichika [illustrated by].
Ningyochō, [Edo]: Gusokuya [Kahei], [1869].
A striking woodblock-printed triptych by Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900) depicting the heroes of the Suikoden as ten elaborately tattooed and weapon-bearing women. Each figure in the yakusha-e repre ...
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