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Sekai Kokumei-zukushi [Compendium of the Countries of the World]
A late Edo vision of the world, [ca. 1844-1856].
US$580.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

[Yugiri]
Illustrated by one of Japan's leading women artists, [1923?].
US$380.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Seiei [Essence]
Stunning designs by Kyoto-based artists, Meiji 40 [1907].
US$1,480.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books

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]
Japan's first scientific translation of Darwin's Origin of Species, Meiji 38 [1905].
US$2,480.00
▶ Translations of Western Texts

A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft: So Farre Forth as it is Reuealed in the Scriptures, and Manifest by True Experience
The record of a sermon on witchcraft by a Puritan theologian, 1609.
US$2,500.00
▶ Western Books

[Untitled manuscript of fortress diagrams]
A guide to castle plans, [ca. Edo period].
US$1,400.00
▶ Paintings & Scrolls

Seiyo Chie Ita Zukai Tsuketaru Zu Tehon = Ninety New Moveable Puzzles
Western style Shonagon no Ita puzzles, Meiji 10 [1877].
US$1,280.00
▶ Classic Illustrated Books

Yizhi Tu [Enhanced Intelligence Diagrams]
A first edition of Tong Xiegeng's famous puzzle book, Qing Guangxu 4 nian [1878].
US$2,800.00
▶ Classic Illustrated Books

[Untitled painting with three fruit studies]
Three fruit studies associated with Shibata Zeshin's circle, [ca. mid- to late-Meiji period (1870s-1890s?)].
US$200.00
▶ Paintings & Scrolls

[Collection of nineteen fan prints]
Fan designs by Shōji Chikushin, [ca. mid- to late-Meiji period (1870s-1890s?)].
US$210.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Gonin no Kakube, Junin no Hataraki [Five Kakubei Doing the Work of Ten]
Five Heads, Ten Tumblers, [ca. Taishō to early Shōwa period (ca. 1910s-1930s)].
US$470.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Shunshoku Kogane no Hana [Flowers of Gold: The Colour of Spring]
A feline melodrama of the early Meiji period, Meiji 17 [1884].
US$740.00
▶ Japanese Literature

Tehon Ikkan Zeshin-ō Kohitsu [One Old Scroll of Model Drawings from the Brush of the Venerable Zeshin]
A signed handscroll of drawings by Shibata Zeshin, [ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1850s-1890s)?].
US$600.00
▶ Paintings & Scrolls

Wayo Kijinden: Shohen [Notable Figures from Japan and the West: First Series]
Biographies of famous figures, including Galvani and Disraeli, Meiji 5 [1872].
US$1,860.00
▶ Japanese Literature

[Untitled woodblock print of an Ichikawa family kabuki actor]
A tension-filled snow scene by the elusive Katsukawa School artist Shunjō, [ca. Anei to Tenmei period (1778-1787)].
US$1,800.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Kagetsujo [Kagetsu's Album]
A censored copy of Kagetsujō, [1836?].
US$2,680.00
▶ Classic Illustrated Books

Yusai Gafu [Yusai's Painting Album]
A scarce edition of Yūsai Gafu, Kōka 3 [1846].
US$1,340.00
▶ Classic Illustrated Books

Nouvelles Compositions Decoratives, Premiere Serie [New Decorative Compositions, First Series]
Abstraction enters the decorative arts, [ca. 1928–1930?].
US$4,500.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books

Showa Bijo Sugata Kurabe: Benisomezuki, Shusho [Competing Beauties of the Showa Era: The Eighth Month, Lingering Heat]
An early Shōwa period beauty, by Watanabe Ikuharu, ca. early Shōwa period [1927-1930?].
US$1,800.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Natsukusa [Summer Grasses]
An early work by one of Japan's great zuan artists, Meiji 37 [1904].
US$2,800.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books

Setsuyoshu [Collection for Practical Use]
A foundational work of Japanese lexicography, postscript dated Keichō 2 [1597].
US$16,800.00
▶ Japanese Literature

Manifesto of the Communist Party
The first authorised English translation of the Communist Manifesto, [1927].
US$1,800.00
▶ Western Books

[Otokodate Junin-zoroi (Ten Chivalrous Men)]
Edo's chivalrous street gangsters, Keiō Gannen [1865].
US$740.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Atago-yama no Zu [Illustration of Atago Hill]
A 'light-ray picture' by Kiyochika, [ca. Meiji 11 (1878)].
US$2,200.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Kagoshima Onna Suikoden [A Suikoden of Kagoshima Women]
Saigō Takamori and comrades reimagined as Suikoden heroines, Meiji 10 [1877].
US$1,680.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Untitled album of match labels
Over 300 match labels from the early Shōwa period, [ca. Shōwa 2-15 (1927-1940)].
US$1,160.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Untitled advertisement for Kyoryusha
A publisher's advertisement written by Ryūtei Tanehiko, Meiji 18 [1885].
US$1,680.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Sochu Kakifu [Illustrated Manual of Flowers and Insects]
From the celebrated Kaishien Gaden, [ca. late Edo period (1810s-1850s?)].
US$540.00
▶ Classic Illustrated Books

Bijin no Kaisuiyoku [A Beautiful Woman at the Beach]
A modern girl enjoys a day at the beach, ca. mid Shōwa period (1950s-1970s)?
US$200.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Misei Gashu [Collection of Illustrations by Misei]
A manuscript draft of a manga travel diary?, ca. 1908?
US$740.00
▶ Paintings & Scrolls

Compositions, Couleurs, Idées
Sonia Delaunay's landmark Art Deco design portfolio, 1930?
US$9,000.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books

Waei Taiyaku Shotoku Ruirei = Examples of English Translations of Official Correspondence, Prepared for Student Interpreters: Part I
Official letters in English and Japanese, 1873.
US$1,860.00
▶ Japanese Literature

[Untitled tsuba]
A sword guard patterned with books, ca. Edo to early Meiji period [18th to mid-19th century]?
US$1,240.00
▶ Others

Matsui Toshu Sensei Gashu [Collection of Illustrations by Master Matsui Toshu]
Paintings by Matsui Tōshū, Taishō 5 [1916].
US$560.00
▶ Paintings & Scrolls

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]
Portrait of a modern woman in Western attire, by Yoshitoshi, Meiji 21 [1888].
US$1,500.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Gaikoku Zoshohyo: Kan [Foreign Bookplates: Complete]
A Japanese collector's album of foreign bookplates, ca. 1920s.
US$380.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

[Untitled oil painting]
A painting of Alice Springs by Florence Broadhurst, [ca. 1920-50s?].
US$1,080.00
▶ Paintings & Scrolls

Japonská Pohádka o Dvou Dědcích [A Japanese Tale of Two Old Men]
A Czech adaptation of Hanasaka Jiisan, [ca. 1919].
US$80.00
▶ Western Books

[Untitled album of hand-painted postcards]
An album of beautiful hand-painted postcards by a forgotten Meiji era illustrator, [ca. 1910-1911].
US$4,500.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

[Gyofu (Fisherman)]
A memorial edition of the print that heralded the sōsaku hanga movement, [1960].
US$2,500.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Untitled kabuki print
A little-known Kuniyoshi yoko-e, [ca. 1847-1853].
US$280.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Chiyo no Nishiki [Brocades of a Thousand Generations]
Inventive designs for haori, Meiji 33 [1900].
US$860.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books

Zuan Fukusa Awase (Design Combinations for Fukusa)
Elegant woodblock-printed patterns for fukusa, [Meiji 27 (1894)].
US$320.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books

Kotatsu
Kotatsu, by Itō Shinsui, Shōwa 6 [1931].
US$2,480.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Fūryū Waka Sannin: Migi
An elegant woman enjoys a literary breather, ca. Bunka 9-11 (1812–1814).
US$3,680.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Untitled photograph of the premises of T.I. Yonemitsu, Jeweler & Watchmaker
Photograph of a Japanese watchmaker and jeweler in Vancouver, ca. 1930-40s.
US$180.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Daishō Koyori Te-asobi: Mukashi Arishi Jūnikagetsu (Hand-play with Big and Small Twisted Paper Strings: The Twelve Months of Olden Times)
Cryptic calendar puzzles with twisted string, ca. early Meiji period (1860-80s)?
US$160.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Tenth Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Lithographs, Serigraphs, Stencils, Intaglio, Combined Medium, Concrete, Iron and Woodblock Prints
Catalogue of a 1965 print exhibition, 1965.
US$280.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

Kikkō-shū (Album of Auspicious Light)
Designs by Tatsumura Heizō and poems by Yosano Akiko, preface dated Shōwa 4 (1929).
US$220.00
▶ Modern Art and Design Books

Hana Yujo Suikoden [A Suikoden of Beautiful and Brave Women]
The heroes of the Suikoden as heavily tattooed women, 1869.
US$3,800.00
▶ Prints and Ephemera

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