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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 ...
Untitled album of calligraphy samples
[Untitled album of calligraphy samples]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan, ca. Meiji 13 (1880)]. In manuscript.
An album of tipped-in calligraphy samples prepared for books, advertisements, frames, seals, talismans, and related ephemera. Each example is neatly and professionally brushed on extremely thin paper, likely intended to be pasted onto wood ...
Rokusan Shingaku no Zu (Illustration of the Six-Three Study of the Mind)
Rokusan Shingaku no Zu [Illustration of the Six-Three Study of the Mind]
Hanamata, Yoshitarō [edited by].
Kanda, [Tōkyō]: Hanamata Yoshitarō, Meiji 19 [1886].
This informational sheet tells the reader how to identify weak points on their body using a series of calculations involving their age and the numbers one to nine (each used to re ...
Shinpan Katsura-tsuke (Stick-on Wigs, Newly Produced)
Shinpan Katsura-tsuke [Stick-on Wigs, Newly Produced]
[Takeda], Ikumaru [illustrated by].
[Tōkyō]: To [Yamaguchiya Tōbē], [Meiji 4 (1871)].
A toy print (omocha-e) designed with cut-out wigs to be arranged interchangeably on the heads of the three kabuki actors depicted below. From left to right, the figures are captioned Kanjaku, Shikan, and Sans ...
Untitled advertisement for a machiai-jaya
[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 ...
Shinsei Yochi Zenzu (Newly-Produced Map of the Earth)
Shinsei Yochi Zenzu [Newly-Produced Map of the Earth]
Mitsukuri, Shōgo [created by]; Ōtsuki, Bankei [preface by].
[Japan: s.n.], Kōka Gannen [1844].
A woodblock-printed world map in handscroll format produced by the schol ...
Takagi Oriemon Buyu Suirikuden [Tales of Valour on Land and Sea]
Takagi Oriemon Buyū Suirikuden [Tales of Valour on Land and Sea]
Goryūtei, Tokushō [text by]; Utagawa, Yasuhide [Kuniyasu] [illustrated by].
Edo [Tōkyō]: Moriya Jihē, Bunsei 14 [1831].
A gōkan on the heroic exploits of Takagi Oriemon, a martial artist of the early Edo period and founder of the Takagi-ryū (Takagi Yōshin-ryū) school of jūtaijutsu. The s ...
Nankyoku Tairiku (The Antarctic Continent)
Nankyoku Tairiku [The Antarctic Continent]
Nihon Kyokuchi Kenkyū Shinkōkai [edited by].
Tōkyō: Nihon Kyokuchi Kenkyū Shinkōkai, 1965.
A sizeable (79 x 109.5 cm) colour map of Antarctica edited and produced by the Japan Polar Research Association (J.P.R.A.) in 1965. The map has a scale of 1:6,500,000, and place names are recorded in English and occasional ...
Nankyoku Tairiku (The Antarctic Continent)
Nankyoku Tairiku [The Antarctic Continent]
Tada, Fumio [proofread by].
Tōkyō: Chiseisha, [ca. 1957-1958].
A large (115 x 109 cm) colour map of Antarctica produced in commemoration of the International Geophysical Year (also known as the IGY, 1957-1958). Professor Tada Fumio (1900-1978), who proofread the map, was a central figure in organising Japan's ...
Nankyoku Tanken Jitsuroku (True Record of the Antarctic Expedition)
Nankyoku Tanken Jitsuroku [True Record of the Antarctic Expedition]
Tada, Keiichi [text by].
Tōkyō: Kainan Shuppan Kyōkai, Shōwa 31 [1956]. First edition.
A record of Japan's first Antarctic expedition (1910-1912) by the expedition's secretary and, later, assistant naturalist Tada Keiichi (1883-1959), following earlier works including his personal, ...
Nankyoku Tanken Inuzori-tai: Futari no Ainu no Hanashi (Antarctic Expedition Dog Sled Team: The Story of Two Ainu People)
Nankyoku Tanken Inuzori-tai: Futari no Ainu no Hanashi [Antarctic Expedition Dog Sled Team: The Story of Two Ainu People]
Koide, Shōgo [text by].
Tōkyō: Fuzanbō, Shōwa 20 [1945]. First edition.
The story of the two Ainu men, Yayomanekuh (Yamabe Yasunosuke, 1867-1923) and Sisratoka (Hanamori Shinkichi, b. 1875/1876- year of death unknown), who travelled as ...
Watashi no Nankyoku Tanken-ki (My Account of the Antarctic Expedition)
Watashi no Nankyoku Tanken-ki [My Account of the Antarctic Expedition]
Shirase, Nobu [text by].
Tōkyō: Kōkoku Seinen Kyōiku Kyōkai, Shōwa 18 [1943]. Third edition.
A re-titled and re-packaged edition of Shirase Nobu's Nankyoku Tanken published during wartime. This copy is from the third edition, printed less than six months after the first edition ...
Nankyoku he Itta Neko no Hanashi (The Tale of the Cat who Went to Antarctica)
Nankyoku he Itta Neko no Hanashi [The Tale of the Cat who Went to Antarctica]
Koide, Shōgo [adapted by]; Watabe, Kikuji [binding designed by]; [Carroll, Ruth (illustrated by)].
Tōkyō: Dōwa Shunjūsha, Shōwa 17 [1942]. First edition.
An adaptation of Ruth and Latrobe Carroll's Luck of the Roll and Go (first published New York: Macmillan Co., 1935). The ...
Shirase Chūi Tanken-ki (An Account of Lieutenant Shirase's Expeditions)
Shirase Chūi Tanken-ki [An Account of Lieutenant Shirase's Expeditions]
Taniguchi, Zenya, Kimura, Yoshimasa [text by].
Tōkyō: Daichisha, Shōwa 17 [1942]. First trade edition.
The first trade edition of Shirase's biography, published two years after the extremely scarce first edition. The authors, Taniguchi Zenya (1916-2011) and Kimura Yoshimasa ...
Nankyoku Tanken (Expedition to Antarctica)
Nankyoku Tanken [Expedition to Antarctica]
Shirase, Nobu [text by].
Tōkyō: Hakubunkan, Taishō 2 [1913]. Third edition.
A third edition of the personal account of Japan's first Antarctic expedition (1910-1912) recorded by the expedition's leader, Japanese Army Lieutenant Shirase Nobu (1861–1946). Shirase's crew departed Tokyo on the Kainan ...
Nankyoku Tanken Shiroku (A Personal Account of the Antarctic Expedition)
Nankyoku Tanken Shiroku [A Personal Account of the Antarctic Expedition]
Tada, Keiichi [text by].
Tōkyō: Keiseisha, Taishō Gannen [1912]. Fourth edition.
A personal, unauthorised, account of Japan's first Antarctic expedition (1910 1912) by the expedition's secretary and, later, assistant naturalist Tada Keiichi (1883-1959). The work includes nine ...
Untitled album of tipped-in photographs of the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden
[Untitled album of tipped-in photographs of the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden]
[Hagiwara, Gorō (compiled by?)].
[San Francisco, ca. 1930s].
An album containing sixteen large tipped-in monochrome photographs captured around the 1930s of the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. The verso of the upper wrapper of the album bears the signat ...
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