This is my first list in some years devoted to East Asian printed books and manuscripts. This is a selective rather than an exhaustive list of my current stock. All items are as described. Prices are net to all except dealers who have previously extended courtesy discounts, and members of IOBA. All material should be prepaid except that ordered by institutions which will receive the usual terms. Postage will be estimated and charged at cost. All material can be returned afte one week if it does not corresponmd to descriptions in either condition or character. Other returns, for any reason what so ever, are allowed, but postage must be born by the orderer. There are many unique and very rare items in this list. If unillustrated, jpegs or xeroxes may be sent upon request. Please do not hesitatre to ask any questions about any material about which you would like further information. In the case of manuscripts sources of identification will be gladly given.

Prices are meant to be realistic. Importance as well as rarity have been taken into account in pricing. It is true, through, that quite a few titles are unique or very rare. I have also included some less rare material which piqued my interest.This is an earnest of my stock in various languages. Similar material is to be had in European languages, and some exotic languages as well. However, this will be found in more limited quantities and areas of subject matter. All items are as described. All material should be prepaid except that ordered by institutions which will receive the usual terms. Postage will be estimated and charged at cost. All material can be returned after one week if it does not correspond to descriptions in either condition or character. Other returns, for any reason what so ever, are allowed, but postage must be born by the orderer. There are many unique and rare items in this list. If unillustrated, jpegs or xeroxes may be sent upon request. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions about any material about which you would like further information. In the case of manuscripts sources of identification will be gladly given

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1. Anon. Album of Butterflies :12 Chinese Pith paper paintings 22.25 cm. X 22.5 cm size of album. Paintings somewhat smaller and in between ribbons of silk on each page. The album dated by a previous owner, 1865. We are aware of these works as part of the export goods which were sold by coastal Chinese artisans to Europeans from as far back as the 18^th century. There has been one exhibition of these works, held at the Field Museum in Chicago some years ago. Our subject of butterflies, insects, small reptiles and amphibia falls into the category of "flower and bird" painting which was an important one for the Chinese at least from the period of the Sung emperor Hui Tsung who was a master at this medium. This is an outstanding example in excellent state of preservation considering the fragility of this paper as it grows older. The subject is also a rare one and as well quite decorative. $5,000.00
2. Anon. Album of Elizabeth Stone, dated July 7^th, 1829: Chinese Pith Paper Paintings. 25 ½ x 21 cm. Bound in Full red morocco, gilt ruled lines, terminating in tondo flowers, inner Etruscan border. Backstrip with crossing lines dividing it into 5 boxes double line at foot, a gilt primrose in each box. Containing mounted Chinese pith paper paintings each with its own protective tissue. These consist of 7 portraits of women and officials[20 x 14 cm.]; 10 landscapes[10 x 16.5 cm.], 20 bird and flower paintings[19 x 13 cm.], 7 paintings of ships[4 are 18 x 12 cm and 3 are 18 x 11 ½ cm.], 9 of punishments[ 20x 15 cm.], 1 a street scene showing 2 women [20 x 15 cm.]. All are the finest I have ever had. All are in the Chinnery style or very close to it. After them are 2 graphite chinoiserie drawings, a print, "The Farewell after S. Shelley, and a graphite portrait of a dog’s head]. The Chinese works have very fine detail, lovely, almost Dutch, atmospheric effects and compositions. Several paintings have cracks, but no loss, and can be stabilized. 3 landscapes lack a small portion near the right margin. Two of the punishments have similar problems, some others have cracks, which are repairable, but no losses. Quite a few are pristine. Very Lovely work, indeed. $8,500.00
3. Anon. Album of Fish, both from Fresh Water and from the Sea. : 9 Chinese Pith paper paintings 25.5 cm. X 37.5 cm size of album. Paintings somewhat smaller. The album identified in Chinese preserved from the old binding which has been replaced has not been read. All the paintings have been completely stabilized by modern paper conservation methods. The separate fish painting loosely inserted originally had a date of bequest of 1868, which was lost by the restorers. It can be seen in a Jpeg which I made and can give to any purchaser. The fish in the album are the finest paintings in this folk style which I have yet seen. The single separate sheet is comparable but not quite as well done. The album is offered together with that sheet. $5,000.00
4. Anon. Artisans scrap book. !10 ¾" x 8" Quite professional work, in the 1880s or 90s in Japan. Originally a day book, the writing has been covered over on 31 pages by pasted in designs for inro, ojime, tsuba, and other small decorative objects, in brush and ink and in color. Subjects include foliage, cocks and hens, flowers, landscape, fruit decorative abstract designs, herons, Buddha. Many of the drawings are in the exact shape and size of the final article, and are on transparent paper.which may already ave been used to transfer the design.. In a makeshift collector’s case. VG. $550.00
5. Anon. (Burmese Tattooist's Design Book) NP, Ca. 1800-20, 12" x 4" folding into tooled calf covers, drawings on both sides of the pages. When open the pages are 12" x 8" wide. 24 Pp. of drawings Inc. Nats, Magic squares, animals. Pencil & Red ink. Folding album bound in tooled pigskin. Burmese men covered their whole bodies with intricate tattoos designed to ward off spiritual and physical dangers. Although nats and other earth sprits are shown, they are always given in connection with some mathematical formula. The heavy emphasis is on the efficacy of numerical puzzles as guardians of the body and soul. The magic squares in which the same total can be arrived at when proceeding in various directions, and sometimes by both addition and multiplication or other procedures, were considered particularly powerful. This is A copy book for such designs, kept by a tattooist. The drawings are clear, precise and exotic. This form is called A "white Parabaik" a form used in Burma for drawing and illumination, only. Calligraphy usually written with white on black. Quigly and Tun BM on Burmese books, P. 21. Binding. worn, scuffed, wormed. Text with almost no worming, water stain not affecting legibility, Good.. $1,025.00
6. Anon. Chinese album. Ca, 1860. 13 x 17.5 cm. Containing 12 paintings on pith paper in bright colors, stylized and not detailed execution. No paper flaws what so ever. The subjects are Birds and flowers 4, Genre, trades 6, boats and shipping 3. All paintings are within an applied cloth ribbon border, as originally produced. Red cloth binding . Small note in Chinese on inner front board, unread, may be the Artist’s signature. [?] Front board detached, rear shakey, paintings in fine state. $875.00
7. Anon. Chinese album on the Production of Silk. Ca. 1860 17/5 x 25 cm. Containing 12 paintings on pith paper in bright colors, stylized and not detailed execution. No paper flaws what so ever. The twelve plates show the steps of producing silk, from the very beginning dealing with the caterpillars until The final product. This is a traditional Chinese subject. One of the most famous books of the Chien Lung period, made for the emperor dealt with this subject. This is, however, a folk rendition. All paintings within silk ribbons. Boards with new cloth, Fine. $1,750.00
8. Anon. Chinese album. Trades and Professions. Ca. 1830-40 32.5 x 23.5, 10 FP paintings on pith paper Ca. 1830-1840. Gentle coloring and good detail, all inside silk ribbons. With Subjects shown are a dentist, butcher, fishmonger, fruit seller, two street merchants, one using a scale, with heavy basket, the other showing a tool and his wares, street tailor, with customer, semi nude, while his upper clothing is being resewn; knife grinder, with box, second street seller stands behind with his wares, vegetable seller and customer. Seller carries over shoulder device with basket at each end with different vegetables, astrologer and customer, chicken salesman with tools, customer waiting smokes a very long ceramic pipe, fish seller with two panniers of fish and customer. All paintings have minor paper flaws which have been stabilized. Only the first has suffered any loss, but the loss is major [going through the center of the dentist. All pages foxed, and thumbed in the corners. Paper stabilized and now secure. Binding rebacked in similar colored cloth, now, exception noted, very good. $2,250.00
9. Anon. Chinese album. Punishments of Criminals. Ca.1830-40. 32.5 x 24.5, 12 FP paintings on pith paper. Gentle coloring and good detail, all inside silk ribbons. Almost all scenes, show three figures. The tortured for the most part do not have violent expressions of pain on their faces, more like resignation. There is one truly violent and bloody scene of a dismemberment. With Chinese phrase written on inner front board [unread]. The paper tears have all been professionally fully stabilized. Only in the first plate has there been a small image loss. The shod foot of one of the figures is gone. Otherwise very good and clean. Rebound with new boards and backstrip in the original figured silk. $1,750.00
10. Anon. Chinese album. Punishments of Criminals. Ca.1840-60. 23.5 x 35 cm. 10 FP paintings on pith paper. But they are smaller than the above having an area of 15 x 25 cm. within the applied silk ribbons. The first painting shows a Yamen’s court in session deciding the fate of a prisoner, including 6 figures and the desk and official symbols and furniture of the judge. With a scrawled ownership signature ending in "chez" and may also have a date which I cannot decipher. No paper flaws, original binding figured printed paper, Fine. $2,000.00
11. Anon. Chinese Bird and Flower Painting. Ca. 1850-60. One work, removed from an album, with the customary silk applied line at the end of the pith paper. 29 x 19 cm. within the borders. It shows two oriole like birds perched on a flowering and budding branch. The flowers have blue petals and a red center. The buds are red. The birds are realized in shades of cool red, orange brown and black. There is some water marking in the two upper corners, not affecting any of the image. Without any cracking and on its original mount. $500.00
12. Anon. Collection of 17 Carte De Visite Images of Chinese Export Paintings. NP, Ca. 1870. Includes an image of Hong Kong harbor with innumerable ships, Shanghai "bund" with shipping, Junks at sea, steamboat in a Chinese harbor. On original mounts, 4 duplicates. There is no information on the versos of the cards. Some fading, a few with other minor flaws, VG. $750.00
13. [ Anon. ] Title Not Present, but most likely The Eight Immortals [.] Place Not given, but Nara? Such manuscripts usually drawn by cloistered monks., Not later than 17th century, Ca. 1650, Unfolded sheets 11 1/2" x 9 1/4". 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 [Pagination of folded sheets, paintings on 6.] In western slip case marked The Eight Immortals, partly attached as a folding album to later, worn, silk brocade boards, blank title slip. Japanese Buddhist manuscripts of this type, with gold and silver dust ink painted on blue dyed paper are of the greatest rarity. The Isseido had one for sale in 1984, none has appeared at auction more recently. This, although unsigned is an extraordinarily beautiful fragment. The first page, which consists of text, only, a little damaged by water, not found on the remaining pictorial sections. Each of these is however folded in the center, as issued. These folds have been repaired on several, with no visible pictorial loss. The painting is exquisite and of museum quality. $15,750.00
14. Anon: Horse trappings, Horseman’s clothing and devices. Dated Kyoho 17, (1733). But this is a copy, probably from the Meiji period. 28 x 20 cm.; Title page, 14 sheets. Includes descriptive text on each page,as well as a closing note on the verso of the last sheet. Black and white, primarily line drawings, with occasional tone work ups. Notes on the drawings written in red. Objects illustrated include: Saddles, bits, bridles, stirrups, horse trappings, for dressing the horse; horseman’s clothing; boots, drum, whip. Very precise and finished drawings. With unfinished drawings on an extra sheet after thefinal note, and onte backof the title page. Near Fine. $1,450.00
15. [Anon. Illus. Manuscript] Atlas Historique, 3me Classe [Asian Continent]. Oblong folio, ND, with a Chromo. TP + 9 FP plates of painted maps with studied pencil Vigs. appropriate to the country in an untutored hand. Album Pub. by "Maison des Oiseux", Rue de Sevres, 86 [Paris], ca. 1850. Plates as follows, Vigs. noted: 1. Map of Asie-names of countries, color change at borders, islands, peninsulas, major rivers. 2. Siberie-large vignette of wolf with goose in landscape, text. 3. Turquie d'Asie-text, map, detailed map of Palestine. Vignettes of French Knight, Saracen [?] with musket. 4. Turkestan-Map,- Mongol drawing sword. 5. Perse-Map, with text surrounded by decorative floral boarder, still life of flowers, below. 6. Khorassan, Afghanistan, Beloutchistan, Sindy, Gulf of Oman-page dominated by exotic animals. 7. Empire Chinois-Map, three Chinese types, artifacts, texts. 8. Arabie, Map, text -Scene of Camels with an improbable monkey. 9. [India] Moghul miniature. All text written on tromp l'oeil bamboo baton, in color." La puissance Anglais..." This is the work of a school boy or school girl meant for class, probably as an annual project. The plates are organized with great originality, no composition repeats. The drawings are poignant. The artist tries for results like professional printing. His solutions are charming because of both his successes and his gaucheries. Interleaved with tissues, Cloth boards, gilt ruled lines, central Vig., Mro. B'strip. Fr. cover waterstained at margin, O/W VG, drawings and watercolor fresh, unfoxed. $1,000.00
16. Anon. Japanese Artist’s Sketchbook. Maruyama School[?] 102 sheets, 11 ½ x 8 ¼ Inches. High quality paper with mica shining init throughout. Most sheets painted in black and white with grays. The sheets seem to have often been painted on before being bound up. The first sheet consists of a drawing of a tiger, which goes over the fold. The next 8 sheets seem to be copied from one Chinese painting of grooms and horses ending this, Chinese text above, and below a splendid horse with his two grooms in front of what may be the emperor with his staff, seated, with some women from the court behind. The next few sheets are primarily studies of figures and horses, including good luck gods, some in colors, some body color used. After this 8 sheets of precise and beautifully realized studies after Chinese figure paintings with notes on colors used. Then 3 sheets of bird and flower sketches. Then continued sketches, possibly from life or memory of people, animals, birds, landscape, insects and fish with a masterfully free brush. Near the end a four sheet painting, seemingly painted first and then bound up. In it are foliage, flowers and their fruits painted in wash, colors and even heavy blobs of white which help with the texture of the fruit, and are seen through washes of low chroma orange yellow. The last 12 sheets or so are primarily people except for a two page composition of Maruyama Okyo puppies, right side up and upside down. Unsigned, with stamps on the cover and first rear page of the New York Public Library, Astor , Lenox and Tilden Foundations, used in the 19^th century, only. Probably collected in Japan in fairly early Meiji. It has affinities to the Maruyama school, and not too many generations from its beginning. Covers worn but interior fresh and unstained, no worming. $1,450.00
17. Anon. Japanese Artist’s Painting Book, Nanga style. In folding album format 12""x 8 ¾" These are all finished paintings in color. 30 sheets including 29 double page paintings, and two single page works. Almost all are flower and birds, except for the obligatory Okyo puppies, and peasants cultivating rice. They are extremely fluent and sensitive, and it is a wonder that they have lasted solong as an album, rather than being taken apart. This is listed as the tenth album of the artist, whose name is not given, although their may be a name hidden in the title slip poetry. None of the works are sketches. They are all finished works. Inlded is a Cock in full strut, Jaspanesew Maple Wisteria, a carp, another plaste with a goldfish, lilies, dragonflies and biutter flies with flowers, a hawk sitting on a pine branch. Fine. $3,000.00
18. Anon. Japanese Artisan's Sketchbook [Title label illegible] NP., Ca. 1840, Oblong 12mo 70Pp. of inserted brush drawings on transparent paper. Orig. boards, title slip, a little worming, signed on last page (unread) Drawings for tsuba, inro, decorative objects. Most show fanciful animals, Viz.: Dragons, Lions, phoenix, hawk, horned, hoofed dragon [simurg?], tortoise, some color, some floral, geometric. Notes in Japanese on the manufacture of the objects. Very Good. $1,150.00
19. Anon. Japanese Artisan's Sketch Book [Cover "Second Volume of two, color."] NP, Ca. 1830, Oblong 12mo, 90 inserted drawings on transparent paper for inro, tsuba, Etc., on 72Pp. An old scrawl gives some drawings to Hokusai's pupils. A group in tone and color do relate to Hokusai, most probably after him. Just one in this style seems an original effort-in black and white inks with some color. Subjects include birds, phoenix, dragons, warriors, foxes, snails, monks, tigers, landscape, flowers, fish. Lacks rear board, in brocade covered case, OW VG. $ 1,250.00
20. Anon. [colophon unread]: Japanese Commonplace Manuscript / Secrets Book. [untitled] Kyoto, Kaei 7, [1853]. [Signed, in colophon unread] explaining how to do various everyday tasks. There are sections on how to use paper and glue, how to help someone who has been struck by lightning, how to avoid being struck by lightning, how to help someone who is choking on food (rice cakes), categories of mountains[with a feng shui component], how to plant trees in barren mountains (early ecology or reforestation), how to use an hourglass, how to use a soroban (abacus), how to prepare breakfast and other meals, how to use scents, how to use various medicines for headaches etc., how to wrap and package things, how to wear kimono, how to do acupuncture and shiatsu, how protect yourself from evil, how to build a ship, how to manage a garden, how to play kala, Etc. 73 numbered sheets plus colophon,with about 30 pages of drawings. A number of the descriptions are about applied mathematics, including the ship building[with diagrams] in which the activities are broken down into smaller units and the module is used as a means of clarifying the development of the whole. Original blue covers quite (worn), minor flaw to rear wrap, no title slip, contents in VG. $1,125.00
21. Anon [unread] Japanese Soldier’s Sketchbook made during garrison duty in the Philippine Islands. Early 1940s. Title page is a somewhat sophisticated ink drawing of bamboo. The remaining drawings are in pencil. They show : View outside barracks window of tropical settlement; another view, but from the street; bananas, part peeled, in still-life arrangement; ripe papaya on the tree; flowers; an outrigger canoe with rustic surroundings, on land; Cocoanuts on a tree; a Cocoanut up close; a pineapple; two Japanese, sitting on a cot playing go; bananas growing on a tree;some bamboo; there also is a page of poetry in Japanese. These drawings reflect a sensitive personality, someone far from home and impressed by the exotic tropical world, and by the exotic Philippine village life. The drawings of fruit and of the village and barracks are such that I would have been glad to see them done at home by a college level art student in one of my classes. They are very earnest, and by a person of some pictorial culture. The whole has been drawn and written in a book of the "Silliman Institute, Dumaguete, Philippine Islands." In album form, with shoelace tie, boards a bit worn, OW VG. $450.00
22. Anon. Taoist Medical Manuscript[untitled]. Undated but probably 17^th century and produced for either the Emperor or an imperial family member. 56 folded sheets. Images 20x 15 cm. 28 of them are calligraphy without paintings, but include a figure made out of letter forms; 28 have a painted figure next to text and a letter form image. The calligraphy figures are made up of is called Chong Naio or insect writing strokes mixed with lines like those used for drawing constellations or star maps. The figures are named and have a large red seal painted in the lower outer corner of all plates. The base color is that orange yellow which is associated only with the emperor. The portraits, both the letter form ones and the paintings are meant to be protective of the owner, and the person who looks at them. Each spirit has a different protective function, many of the functions overlap, but all can fend off death, prolong life, guard against sickness and other ills. Also because of the extremely high skill and detail of the painting, in the miniaturist tradition, they are as well thought of as having been commissioned by someone in the imperial court. See Albert Nachbaur and Wang Ngen Joung, Les Images Populaires Chinoises, Pekin, 1926 for related images in color woodcut. Unique, but related to manuscripts in the Musee Guimet and British Library. This is merely a portion of the whole. Serious study may make identification of the precise text used clear. Typically, such manuscripts are anonymous, as here. Leaves opened, matted and conserved in a fitted box. A little flaking of base color of the margins, outside of images, some water stain, not touching characters or images, but only the margins, OW lovely condition. Unfaded color, clear strokes. $25,000.00
23. Anon. Shin Kaku Gafu. Dai Yon [Volume four] ND, NP. But Japan, Circa 1830. 26 x 17 cm. 35 sheets [70 Pp.] of brush drawings almost entirely of figures. The style which uses a sharply accented brush is heavily influenced by Chinese figure painting and indeed often has Chinese themes. Also including Japanese good luck Gods, two figures which arch horizontally over two sheets. The first page bears a seal in the lower inner corner. The second page bears two seals under a ten character note. On it two boys are seen dancing. Some notes as to the eventual colors have been made on clothing. Two further drawings were deemed worthy of the two seals, and a further drawing with an inset sketch of the same gesticulating figure gets a seal on each. Very lovely professional level work, but unsigned and thus far unrecognized. Fine condition. $1,750.00
24. Anon. Untitled [Catalog of Tea Ceremony Utensils]. 49 sheets (98 Pp.), 26 cm. in Dec. Japanese covers, with a blank title slip. The description of a specific Japanese collection in manuscript form, probably made in Taisho. A preface followed by outline drawings including significant decorative details of some 106 examples of refined taste Japanese hand made tea ware. The descriptions start with the boxes in which the wares are kept and any inscriptions on them and then continue to describe and depict kodai . Most utensils are chawan, tea bowls, and the bottoms of the tea bowls are also described, as well as some hanaire, vases, and mizuhashi, cold water continers. There are approximately 106 drawings and descriptions. Signature not read. Circa late Meiji or Taisho. Fine condition. $450.00
25. Bumpo, Kawamura: [Landscape with Rustic Houses and Foot Bridge] Kyoto, ND ca. 1800, 25 x 17.5 cm. Relatively simple brush drawing with wash and light tints of rose. A characteristic broadly drawn, quick landscape sketch showing houses, foot bridge and trees in the foreground. Signed and sealed. Index of Japanese Painters. P.14, Mitchell P. 20. One of the great ones. Founder of his own school. Reproductions of his work in Chibbert, Holloway, Brown, Hillier, BM, Mitchell, Dashkevitch Etc. Laid down on board, glue on corners, OW Fine state. $1,075.00
26. Hyakunen, Suzuki; [Landscape Painting, Untitled] Kyoto;, Before 1890., 36.2 x 5.8 cm. Painted in sumi and light colors on gold flecked silk; Signed and sealed, A long thin vertical painting of foliage by a master of landscape. Hyakunen lived in Kyoto from 1825-91. He was self taught, and developed his own independent style becoming famous in his time, although he though of himself primarily as a Bunjin (scholar), not an artist. His work has affinities to northern Chinese painting and Chinnen. His sons, as well as his students Keinen, Beisen and Shoshu all became known. Index of Japanese Painters, P. 42, Mitchell P. 71, Morrison Vol. 2, P. 105, Brown P. 199. His work is reproduced in a Japanese study "Hyakunin Gaei", and in Ehon noted by Mitchell. VG/Fine. Small bits of paper adhering to back. $450.00
27. [Ikebana] Signed and sealed, unread: Rikka no Zu : "Ikebana" Flower Arrangement. End note dated Genroku 10, 1698. 32 cm. x 18.75 cm. 25 sheets [50 pages], on all of which can be found a hand colored flower arrangement except for the last half sheet which is a closing note. The first, and defining, Ikonobe school album. This is identical in the methodology used to produce the 17th century copies of this book. It was originally made to be printed with the barest, light, outlines together with printed titles for each print, and the end note. It was then supposed to be fully and richly hand colored. This copy was produced exactly like that, except that the paper and color mark it as a 19th century production. However, it is known that no edition was issued in the 19th century. All of the known copies in the Western world are considered to have been completed in the 17th century. None of these have come up for sale in the 20th century, and no copy like this one has come up for sale, either, Thus it us necessary to infer special circumstances surrounding its completion. The "Ikenobe School" still flourishes in Japan. It seems likely that they have kept control of the woodblocks which were originally cut in 1698. Since all copies had to be slowly and laboriously colored by hand, there never was a very large issue, and one possibility is that some very great master or patron was presented with this one, which was specially made, most likely between 1820 and 1830[this being based on the paper and colorings used]. The group of 49 watercolors traces, through flowers, branches and in many of the later examples, bonsai, the seasons of the year from Spring through winter to New Years, which in Japan has as its symbol the Pine tree and its branch. Two of the watercolors are double page and stunning as openings in a breathtaking book. The 17th century examples of this work are very rare, all of the known copies, three in all, are in the Netherlands, where they were imported before the opening of Japan in 1856. Copies of the 19th century are completely unheard of. It was owned , early in the 20th century by Carl Dreppard for whom it was rebound in Japanese style with a manuscript title slip in 1950. He believed that it was the 17th century original, which his penciled notes aver on the blank inner rear board. He was not so far from right, since the blocks are the original issue, albeit showing a little the ravages of time, which were repaired by the painter who fulfilled the flower compositions. Unique! Fine condition as noted. Japanese manuscript; Flower arrangement; Ikebana; colorplate book; watercolored color plate book' water colors; 17th century color plate book; 19th century color plate book; $25,850.00

28. Kagaku, Takeyama (Sadanobu) [Cicada, Preying Mantis among foliage, Painted Fan] Kyoto, ND, early 19th century, 51.5 cm. long, Fan Shape. Kagaku was a renowned student of Ganku and Yokoyama Kazan. His style is pure Nanga with much spirit. His work is illustrated in Kyoshi Gazu. Mitchell P. 76, Roberts P.63. Lightly glued to board, surface crackly, not affecting ink, VG. $750.00
29. Kazunobu : Two Japanese Sketch Books of Drawings by Kazunobu. Circa 1850. 10 x 14 ¾; drawings being 9 x 12 ½" each; 6 drawings in each volume[12 in all]. They are Ukiyo-e Sketches of Tale of Aoyama. Also 5 loose Kuniyoshi-style Drawings on Thin Paper probably for use used in carving woodblocks. The drawings are rough quick and intense work ups of the motifs showing a great deal of action. They look very much like the Utagawa line, but the name attached to them must be a "studio name" since it is not familiar. Very high quality imaginative work. Jpegs available. VGood. $3,750.00
30. Keibun, Matsumura; [Fan With Caladium Shaped leaves, Flowers] Kyoto, Ca. 1800, 50.4 cm. Long. Painted in Sumi and light green. The fan has been used and then removed. Slight darkening, OW Fine. A rare fan by Goshun's younger brother and student. Goshun was a student of Okyo and founder of the Shijo school . Keibun's finest work was done in Flower and Bird paintings, so we are close to that here. Index of Japanese Painters, Pp. 57-58, Mitchell, Pp. 91-92. The fan has been used and then removed. Slight darkening, OW Fine. $2,050.00
31. Mori, Takamasa [Fan in Chinese Bunjinga Style, Plant with striped, decorative leaves seen in front, behind and through holes in picturesque rock.] Kyoto, 1791-1864 39 cm. Long, Fan used, chipped in several places, not in drawn area. Extraordinary Scholar style image by this Kyoto painter, born in Nagoya, student of Chikuto, Ikkei, Bokusen and Mitsuzane. A famous professional painter and teacher in the Nanga style. Roberts "Dictionary of Japanese Artists" P. 87. One of the most powerful, small bunjingwa [or scholarly painter] images I have seen. Sumi & Green brush drawing. Very Good. $875.00
32. Nakano, author; Shin Kai, artist : San Ju Ban Rei Ba Honzo Mi’e. Danjo Ichidai Shu Honzon Mi’e. [The 33 statues of Buddha in the Sanctuary. Buddha protects men and women of this generation .] Kaei 7 [1854] NP, 32 Pp., 11" x 7 15/16^th", of these 20 Pp. are text in a clear cursive, 12 Pp. are illustrations of the statues of Buddha. While it is not clear where this monastery is, from the belief in the magical power of the Buddhist images, it would appear to be some form of "Pure Land, Buddhism." The members of this sect believe that by saying "Amitofu" over and over again, minds focused, holding one end of a cord, Amidha Buddha will draw them into "heaven." The quality of the drawing is assured, the draftsman was probably as monk drawing and writing to attain merit. A little dog eared at the front wrap, and a little water margin in the blank lower border of the wrap only. Also a short arc of a worm hole about half way through for several pages only, no effect on either pictures or text. OW Very Good. $875.00
33. Naokota, Takase: Meibutsu Toro Zue [Picture Book of Famous Japanese Stone Lanterns] Edo, Koka 2, 1846; Approx 8vo, Japanese binding UP, but, title sheet, 34 sheets illustration/text. The 34 sheets of pictures and text [68 Pp. in all, 2 Pp. title] include 1 to 2 lanterns on most pages [total 112]. Written and drawn in a skilled, tasteful, hand in black and white. Most notes in black, a few in red. The last side with closing note and colophon. Lanterns are important features of Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, have become a major accessory in gardens. A useful period reference and well drawn picture book. An amateur, possibly related to the Naokata mentioned in Roberts P. 119 who died in 1833 and lived in Kyoto. Original stiff wraps, title slip, minimal worming, first 9 sheets, largely in blanks, OW VG/Fine. $950.00
34. [Ying, Chou, artist (?)] : Taoist Alchemical manuscript dealing with the preparations of medicines which will prolong life or grant immortality. Chien Lung period [1736-1795]. A manuscript in a very refined figure style, 21.5 x 12 cm. for each folding page, now mounted without folding.25 illustration pages and 25 text pages mounted above on the same sheets. The texts are accomplished with gold on black paper. The paintings include as well, green, flesh tone and light blue pigments, and once a small touch of red. While unnamed, the manuscript is signed in the last panel, Chou Ying. However it is a signature in homage to the great and elegant Ming painter, whose work was a model for this manuscript. The signature phrase includes the phrase that the painting was made with washed hands [as one might work on a Buddhist manuscript, because of its holiness]. The calligraphy is definitely Chien Lung period, however. Each scene shows another immortal and the context in which his alchemical powers can be found. Two of these are shown surrounded with trigrams, another with another large mystical sign in the landscape; three others have crucibles of different sorts in which the magic medicine is being manufactured. Others are shown with the connection to their supernatural powers, i.e. a dragon, sea creatures, vapors arising from themselves, foliage, the sea. The whole in a 19^th century Chinese album in Fine condition. The album much worn, the cloth blanched of color. $25,500.00
35. Anon. Yosei hodai Kaikoku Jijitsu Zen. [Western-made artillery given foundation. ] ND, NP, no author’s name or appellation given. Manuscript, 24.10 cm., written title slip, bound into flexible boards, 7 text sheets [14Pp] including four ½ sheets [or pages] of brush drawings, and a double page of brush drawings of cannon as a frontispiece [not counted in pagination]. In 1841, the artist-samurai, Watanabe Kazan, wrote a memo to the Shogun’s bakufu [bureaucracy ] suggesting that Japan’s seacoasts and major coastal cities were unprotected from the guns of foreign war ships, and advocating a plan for protecting them by the use of cannon and mortars in fortresses. Kazan, who was simultaneously a great Japanese style master of the Shijo tradition and a devoted student of "renga-ku" [short for European knowledge], had in fact discovered a weakness which Perry later exploited to open Japan. The response of the Shogun and his Bakufu was to order Kazan to commit ritual suicide, because his memorandum could cause widespread fear and burden the government in carrying out its daily affairs. And as well, because the memo showed a lack of respect for the authorities to carry out their work properly. As a proper member of the governmental system[which all Japanese samurai were, by definition] he carried out his own suicide. After the opening of Japan, and ever since, he has been revered as a national hero, since his fears were completely justified, and his precautions might have precluded the opening of Japan. This manuscript seems to be very much like the one described as causing Kazan’s downfall. It reproduces Western arms, to the pattern known in Japan from the 17^th century, when they were outlawed, and it shows emplacements in forts along rivers, and in static forts in the sea and harbors. The style in which the weapons are drawn is reminiscent of the drawings made by Shiba Kokan, the eminent Renga-ku master of the later 18^th century. I believe that this may be a clandestine copy of that memorandum, from the period, as written by Kazan. No manuscript of this name is noted in the bibliography of all Japanese printed books and manuscripts, Kokusho somokuroku, or its supplement, although there are 35 manuscripts which begin with the word Yosei. It is also unnoted in RLIn and OCLC Japanese, BL 1897 and 1910. Checking in the NDL catalog Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan Shozo Meijiki Kanko Tosho Mokuroku[The National Diet Library], on the off chance that it might be a Meiji document has also been unsuccessful under both Yosei and Kaikoku. I have not been able to locate any copies like manuscript either inside or outside of Japan. Antiquarian, Fine. $50,000.00

WOODBLOCK PRINTED ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.

[see also the supplement to this section at the end of this list]
36. Anon. Enho Koketsu Shinan [ Chinese Moxabustion and Acupressure Manual]. Japan, NP, ND, Ca. 1870-90. 4 vols. 18.5 cm., 37, 47, 51, 55 Pp., Numerous FP black and whit linear woodcuts and diagrams. Original covers rubbed. Volume three very rubbed, and the upper blank margin, beyond the rectangle which encloses text and plates has been wet and has softened. This does not extend into the text or illustrations themselves. This starts with just a tiny portion in the first few sheets increasing until all of that area is involved at the end. Scarce manual taken from a Chinese original, reproduced exactly with occasional kana [Japanese] reading of a letter added next to the Chinese script. Unnoted in RLIn, NUC. Flaws noted, Good. $650.00
37. Anon. Houghton & Dutton 55 Tremont Street Boston Mass Importers of Japan Uncolored Teas The Best In The World Also Importers Of All Other Japanese Goods Wholesale and Retail At Lowest Prices[.] H. & D. Boston, Ca. 1875, Legal Size Sheet, Broadside Woodcut. Folded, F/VG. Color Woodblock Print in Ukiyo'e style of a Noh performance, viewers, unsigned (1/2 the sheet). Printed on hosho paper. The same vintage as the Japanese illustrations for Chiushingura with English text (1876). Printed in Japan, nothing in Japanese, no censors seals. One fold, OW F/F. $475.00
38. Anon. Nisshin Kairaku Sensoki, Nippei Taisho [Our Army and Navy at War, Victory for Japan.] NP, Npub. probably Tokyo. 6 3/4 X 4 1/2 inches (closed), with full-color cover, 14 Pp. of text and woodblock prints including a 4 Pp. fold-out print. A propaganda piece, published with the sanction of the government advocating victory in the a Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) with the very early publishing date of August, Meiji 27 (1894). The Sino-Japanese War officially broke out on July 31, 1894 when the Japanese government notified the Western nations that a state of war existed with China. Most countries including Britain, the United States, Germany, Holland, and Spain declared neutrality. Russia, France, and Austria did not, but Japan's fears of Western military intervention never materialized. Japanese public reaction was indifferent at the beginning of the war and few home front publications were produced. The government explained that in order to reform Korea's domestic polity, protect the country's independence from Chinese aggression, and maintain peace and order, Japan had to fight China. This is the general tone used in reporting Japan's early victories in the war, many of which occurred just days before this book was produced. In fact this was Japan’s first war of imperialist aggression, based on the behavior observed by the Japanese of Europeans, and their own martial history.. The four page folding plate shows a battle scene. Unloc. at OCLC, HLS [Yenching], BL, COPAC, Stf., NYP, YUS, Melvyl, Cambridge Japanese Romaji Cat., National Diet Library. Complete and in very nice shape, VG. $875.00
39. Anon Onna Shishu Sho [Book of Four Classics for Women.] NP, ND, but Japan Circa 1770. A Japanese edition of a Ming Chinese original, published in Chinese characters with explanatory Japanese kana appearing next to the more unfamiliar ones. A series of moral and philosophical tales, with supernatural intervention. An anthology of heroically correct feminine behavior in the context of tales which involve both moral dilemmas, and supernatural agencies. Complete in the original 7 volumes, one title slip is in manuscript, with the original covers. There are numerous full page black and white illustrations of truly fine quality in Chinese style showing not only people but deities and devils, and some particularly fine representations of horses. Unnoted in Brown, BM 1897, 1905, Toda-Ryerson, not in the major auction sales of Japanese books since 1920. Without date or place of publication, but on the basis of paper, title slip location and calligraphy, from 1760-80. Neither KS, [the Japanese equivalent for Evans, Wing, ESTC all in one] and RLin, nor OCLC show any copy dated in the 18^th century. Only a 4 Volume issue from 1656, another from 1835, are noted, with a microfiche copy of 1881 in CU, with no earlier date of publication showing. It appears to be a unique issue unknown to scholarship of a work in 18^th century Japanese printing, for women. Fine printing and state, rear wrap of the last volume slightly defective, OW VG, lovely, clean, unstained and unwormed copies. $8,500.00
40. Anon. Wakan Nendai Kishu [Historical Collection of Japan & China.] TP, 60 leaves, 1 P. colophon, with a continuation [half page] of illustrations. 18.8 x 9.5 cm. Colophon dated Bunkyu 3, 1863. Charts of the solar system and constellations, in both East Asian and rengaku form, zodiac signs, dates in relation to the phases of the moon and the use of trigrams and Chinese methods of divination, tables and data for predicting the future. This was a guide meant for literate and educated women to use. The binding consists of a pink ground with repeated cherry blossoms, with yellow centers and green leaves, which helps to identify this as for the use of women. Unnoted at Harvard Yenching, Cambridge Japanese; OCLC. Most of the printed title slip is still on the front board, and the title page is still present. New binding string, slight water stain on TP and first 2 leaves, OW Very Good. The book may be signed in grass writing on the preface, if so, unread. $875.00
41. Anon: Wayo Tejina no Tane [ "Secrets of Japanese and Western Magic."] Meiji 17 [1884] 12 x 9.1 cm. Consists of 44 pages most with woodblock prints of magic tricks, but including two color woodblocks at the front of the book, one of them showing a man's head on a table, in a trick performed by a western magician, the other shows a trick as performed by a Japanese team of man and woman.. Very rare, no copies are to be found in any Western collections. Original covers. A few pages at the front of the book have wormage but very good. $3,500.00

41 A. Anon. Morimura Brothers Fall 1886 Importers, 540 Broadway, New York [City] Broadside. 35.7 x 36.7 cm. Color woodcut band 6 cm. Wide [wider at corners] printed by wood block red, green, yellow black and gray in Japan showing good luck Gods, male and female plus two of their happy children. Both looking quite well fed. Lush floral surround of Cherry Plum and Chrysanthemum flowers, mixed with Japanese Objets, Etc. With a preponderance of red coloring throughout . The coloring uses the aniline dyes which became popular at the time in Japan, and the style is Ukiyoye in the Utagawa line, but unsigned. In the centre a lithographed printed broadside in English with cuts of a fan and a metal cast covered bowl by a New York engraver "Gilman". Issued just at the time of the craze in the USA for Japonoiserie. An unusual combination and much more complex and much larger than other examples seenOne of the importantr early firms importing Japanese material into the USA. Fine except for a clean tear on one corner, professionally restored, no loss. OW Fine printing and state. Unrecorded. Japonoiserie; Japanese/American; Japanese American business; Japanese business; Uki'oye Japanese/American; $1075.00

41 B. Amsden, Dora: The Heritage of Hiroshige : a glimpse at Japanese landscape art / by Dora Amsden ; with the assistance of John Stewart Happer ; illustrated with prints from the Happer Collection. San Francisco : P. Elder, c1912. 4 p. l., vii, 84 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Printed at the Tomoye Press on brown paper printed on one side only and folded as in Japanese books. The life and work of the great Japanese Uki-o-ye color landscape printmaker Ando, Hiroshige, 1797-1858. Written by an early critic about an early American collection. Bound Japanese style with boards, cloth and silk binding ribbons. Very Good. Inscribed by the author in pen on front blank. Uki'oye; Uki'oye landscape prints; Hiroshige; Hiroshige, Early; Inscribed book about Hiroshige; $75.00

42. Austin, Nichols & Co. [Scenes of Tea Production] New York, Austin Nichols & Co., Tea Importers. ![Yokohama (?)] Ca. 1891-1900, 92 x 46 ^½ cm. Broadside elephant folio color wood block print. Folds into silk brocade boards. Divided in twelve equal sections, ll prints captioned," Picking Tea"-"Tea Firing Premises Yokohama"-"Shipping Tea By Empress of India", Etc. All have "Crown Japan Tea" logo. Each 6 3/8" x 9 1/2" plus margins. They include Meiji western buildings, a steam ship which carried the tea, named "The Empress of India," after Queens Victoria [Who died in 1901] . The twelfth print is a Title Page with the name and address of the import company. The artistic style of these prints is close to "Yokohama’e" or Yokohama style woodcuts. Their production began in the 1860s. The firm was founded in New York in 1855, but did not start using the name "Austin-Nichols" until 1879 [cf. History of Austin Nichols & co, ND NY A.& N.]. The first copyright A&N tea was called "Sunbeam", thus our tea was produced later than 1879, Ca 1882-5. The taste for Japonisme in the arts reached our shores in 1876 [cf. Japonisme Comes to America, Meech & Weisberg], thus Nichols would have been well positioned during this taste to have such advertising matter produced for them. In 1891, the S.S. Empress of India, on which the tea is shown being shipped, began service out of Vancouver[Canadian Pcfc. RR.]. Japonoiserie became only a high art style, after about 1900. Unnoted in any American print collection [MFA Bos., Met, NYPL, Chic .Mu., Wrc. Mus., KC, Freer, SFMu., Clev.Mu.] or in RLIn, OCLC, other American libraries. Tiny damage to blank margin where attached to board, OW F/F. $2,850.00
43. Baimei, Kaien, editor Kyoka Soya Shu [The Grassy Fields: A Collection of Kyoka Poems] VOLUMES 1. 2. (Spring), 4. 5. (Autumn), 6.(Winter). Publisher and place not given., Tempo 4, 1833, 23 x 16 cm, 5 Vols. (of 7) Sheets: 1, 43 1/2 (back cover); 6, 29 1/2; 10, 43; 10, 40; 7, 32. A rare Kyoka (Short comic poem) anthology, illustrated by artists from different schools. Ukiyo-e; Kuniyoshi, Hokkei; Seiyo, a gifted and respected amateur; Nanga; Hobun, Umpo, Chinzan. The illustrations, are beautifully designed and printed in full color. Each has the quality of a surimono. Mitchell has six volumes (his volume 2 defective), Lane has a copy of Volume 7. There are no other copies noted. Mitchell, Pp. 394-395, Dashkevitch 124. (This copy)[See for a discussion of the book, and plate.], K.S.2.494.2. Original Dec. wraps, printed title slips, Fine printing and state, in Chitsu. $9,350.00
44. Bairei, Kôno, artist. Bairei Hyakucho Gafu. Zokuhen. [Bairei's Sketchbook of 100 Birds - Continued] Tokyo: Ôkura Magobei, Meiji 17 [1884]. 3 vols., complete as issued. Each 24.8 x 16.5 cm. Beige printed covers with red paper labels. Vol.1 18 single page and 13 double page color illustrations of birds; Vol. 2 10 single page and 17 double page illustrations; Vol.3, 9 single page and 17 double page illustrations, thus 37 single page and 47 double page prints total. Sealed throughout. 3 vols. Mitchell, p.216, Brown, p.199, Ryerson p.426. Fine condition, very good impressions and colors. $1,650.00
45. Beisai, Kubota: Bijutsu Hin Gafu [Album of Art Objects 4^th Series]. Tokyo, Meiji 27. I album 24.4 cm. 17 sheets with 15 openings showing color wood block prints. The 16^th has the colophon and an ad. Verso of the front cover is part of a double page spread showing the Japanese pavilion at the World’s Columbian Fair in Chicago with other nearby pavilions and many Victorian American fair goers. Two of these are in chairs pushed by employees and one more in the equivalent of a Japanese Kago, with bearers in Turkish looking costumes. The front cover is almost identical with that shown in Mitchell [except for the volume number] figure 29. The rear cover shows flying cranes above a banner in English saying "World’S Columbian Exposition." There is a white star behind the banner bearing the name, which is itself behind a somewhat furled Japanese flag. The contents show exhibits at the fair, including Japanese and other objects, many Victorian ones, and compositions drawn from life. One of these shows the meeting of a cat and two dogs inside a Victorian house. Another shows a gold miner [probably after an exhibit using real people]; another shows a farm scene with cows, cowboys and a milk maid. The humor of all the exhibits is fully appreciated. Mitchell P.223 notes only the Second series of the previous year, finding one copy in Richard Lane’s collection in Kyoto Otherwise unnoted in any Western location. Not in RLIN/OCLC, which carries a good many of the Tokyo Diet library books, which is meant to be the largest Meiji repository in Japan. Fine printing and state with some worming, entirely in the blank border and also on the rear board, OW Fine. $1,750.00
46. Bairei, Kono Chigusa no hana / Kono Bairei ga. Kyoto-shi Bunkyudo, Meiji 22 [1889. ]First Vol (only) of 2 : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm. Japanese wildflowers printed in color by woodblock. Names and descriptions given only in Japanese, but the plates are numbered with roman numerals. With 58 full page plates, but since some flowering plants occupy two pages only 50 numbers. Bartlett & Shohara, P. 513, 514 and plate [Pl. 1] Mitchell, P. 234, Loc. only 2 copies, lacked it himself. RLIn, 1 Loc. Orig. Flex. wraps, Ptd. title slip, Fine printing and state. $1,175.00
47. Baitei, Ki : Kyuro Gafu [Picture Album by Kyuro] Originally published in Kansei7[1795] This issue was published in Kansei 9 [1797] Complete in 1 Volume, 26 x 18.6 cm.; 1 sheet 32 sheets, verso of last sheet is colophon. Black and white illustrations in the Haiga style throughout. Baitei, a poet, Nanga painter and student of Yosa Buson was called "the Omi Buson," since his work stayed so close to Buson’s dicta, and he lived in Omi province. Ordinary scenes from daily life are noted in a quick sketch catching the mood, gesture and humor of daily life. Mitchell, copy "c". P. 403[Odin’s copy]; Ryerson P. 418 , Holloway 2, Brown P. 93, K.S. 2.481.4. Original dark brown covers, printed title slip [abraded, but quite legible]. Interior fine printing and state, without stain or worm holes. $2,000.00
    

THE ONLY KNOWN COPY OUTSIDE JAPAN.

48. Buncho, Tani: Kinzan Min (The Plants of the Golden Mountain) Edo, ND, Ca 1795-1805, Western 8vo in Size, Japanese Bdg. UP, 8 sheets, containing 5 sheets of illustrations, black & gray. Illustrations and calligraphy attributed to Tani Buncho, the foremost Shijo painter in Edo. Unknown outside Japan, not in Mitchell, and unnoted in his list of Buncho's works. But see Sotheby's London, Dec. 18, 1986, P. 66 Illus. from 213, Buncho's "Shazanro-Gafu", for what could be a plate from this book. Not in any other western collection, i.e. BL, Ryerson. Unnoted by Brown, Hillier in any publication. Known in Japan in our collation. And there attributed to Buncho. Almost unnoticeable worm holes (Rpd.). OW Fine printing and state. Japanese provenance available. May lack preface or colophon. Pictorially complete. $2,500.00
49. Bumpo, Kawamura : Bumpo Gafu With Bumpo Gafu Nihen with Bumpo Gafu Sampen. III Volumes.[Bumpo’s Sketchbook I, II and II.] Bunka 4[1807], Bunka 8[1811], Bunka 10 [1813]. Covers colors gray, dark gray, and dark green with designs of interlinked octagons.. 26, 25.6, 25.6 cm. Preface 1 ½ sheets preface first sheet unnumbered, 35 sheets, last half sheet is colophon,2 unnumbered sheets of ads. Printed in black and white and light colors throughout. Volume II, 1 ½heet preface, first sheet unnumbered, 35 numbered sheets, last opening shows colophon. Volume III 1 sheet preface, 31 sheets, unnumbered. This is not a first issue which should have numbered sheets and have 35 of them. The other two volumes are first issues. See Mitchell Pp. 227-228. Each was published separately and is considered complete in itself. The last actually has the character for "Dzen" at the foot of the title slip, indicating complete in one volume. However, Mitchell’s copy is missing two sheets in Volume One, present here, sheets 26 and 27. These actually possess some of the finest images in the series. The scholars looking at the painting with a swirling squiggle on it all three in evident appreciation [at the end of a series on Zen koans], An image of a scholar and his page meditating, and a group of forest monks. These are very famous and much appreciated books both by the Japanese and by Westerners. All are noted by Brown, P 104, Gonse I 203, .Javal I110; Holloway 7,Ryerson 384, and in Mitchell among others. Lovely condition. A little wormed at the last few pages of Vol. I, all covers rubbed, but fine printings in near Fine state throughout. In Chitsu. $4,250.00
50. Bumpo, Kawamura : Bumpo Kanga [Bumpo’s Drawings/Chinese Style] Kyoto, Hishiya Shinjiro, Chojiya Genjiro, four others in Kyoto, Edo and Osaka, dated Kyowa 3, 1803 [but a slightly later Edition circa 1810]22.5 x 15.5 cm. 1,26 sheets last page as colophon, 2 sheets of Ads affixed to rear board, original wraps and title slip. Fine printing and state. Bumpo’s Second published book. It differs from his first, Bumpo Soga, in that many of the small figures add up to one large composition on the page. The most "Nanga [Southern Chinese] of any of Bumpo’s works. The Hokusai Manga were profoundly influenced by the two earliest published books of Bumpo. Our book and Bumpo Soga. The larger number of publishers establishes this copy as a later printing than the others described. The ads are also not noted in other copies. Mitchell P. 228, Ryerson P. 384, De Roos A-s-33, Duret 469, Haviland XVIII, 711, Hollowasy6, Javal (II) 171, Brown P. 104. Covers worn, unfoxed and without worm holes, Very Good +. $1,550.00
51. Bumpo, Kawamura & Nangaku, Watanabe; Kaido Soga [Highway Tale] Kyoto, (1811) Colophon: Bunka 8, 25. x 17 cm. 36 2Pp. Wdct. Illus., Black & Lt. Colors, Pre., contents, Col. Orig. wraps, title slip. Intro., Plate 1, W/light stains, a little wormed largely in blanks, OW VG. Mitchell Pp.324-325, BM(1898) P.9, Holloway 9, Etc. Early reprint, sans Kyoka poems. This is the printed version of an artistic duel between Bumpo and Nangaku who draw competing plates on a satiric tour of the Tokkaido. Scenes of travelers among the most famous Japanese sights. Orig. wraps, title slip, introduction. And Plate 1, lightly stained, a little wormed largely in blanks, OW VG. $2,850.00
52. Buncho, Tani: KINZAN MIN (The Plants of the Golden Mountain) Edo, ND, Ca 1795-1805, Western 8vo in Size, Japanese Bdg. UP, 8 sheets, containing 5 sheets of illustrations, black & gray. Illustrations and calligraphy attributed to Tani Buncho, the foremost Shijo painter in Edo. Unknown outside Japan, not in Mitchell, and unnoted in his list of Buncho's works. But see Sotheby's London, Dec. 18, 1986, P. 66 Illus. from 213, Buncho's "Shazanro-Gafu", for what could be a plate from this book. Not in any other western collection, i.e. BL, Ryerson. Unnoted by Brown, Hillier in any publication. Known in Japan in our collation, and there attributed to Buncho. Almost unnoticeable worm holes (repaired). OW Fine printing and state. May lack preface or colophon. Pictorially complete. $2,150.00

 

53. Busei, Kita Illustrator; Written by Fujiwara Masaomi. Kasen Kasho[Selected Poets] Publisher and place of publication not given in this or any other copy., Ca. Bunka 7, 1810, 29.3 x 19/5 cm. 3 sheets preface, 20 sheets of color wood block printed illustrations. First Edition of a much reprinted work. Busei was the favorite student of the doyen of Edo Nanga painters, Tani Buncho. He loved and collected the work of earlier artists, particularly the Kano school. His work is an amalgam of the Nanga tradition and the Kano. Here with his choice of a historical subject, the 36 great poets, he finds full play for his fancy. Only four copies recorded in Western collections, at least one defective. Toda P. 396, Mitchell P. 344 (defective copy lacking two illustrations); Brown P. 119, Corbin 479, Gonse III, 523, KS 7.486.1. Original wraps, printed title slips, Fine printing and condition. $6,250.00
54. Buson, Yosa : Haikai sanjurokkasen Osaka : Kawachiya Tasuke, Year: 1799 Reprint in facsimile by Kanao Bookshop, Tokyo, Meiji 39 [1907]. Description: [5], 19 [i.e. 36] p. : p., ill. ;, 28 cm. In Japanese. Buson was the second greatest Haiku poet of all time. Portraits of the 36 poets of the school of Basho [Poets of Haiku] in line and light color. Each portrait accompanied with an example of the poets’ Hokku printed in a darker ink. Buson, as well as being the second greatest Haiku poet was one of the Japan’s greatest 18^th century painters. His Haiga [or haiku illustrations] are, far and away the finest by any artist. These synoptic drawings with a very free brush treat nature as Haiku treats poetry. In book form, the greatest example of the style. In its original edition one of the great and most sought after Japanese rarities, having a standing similar to that of some of William Blake’s productions for collectors of Japanese books. Toda, Pp. 418-419 describes the original edition and Plate X P. 327. OCLC, 1 copy of the original edition at UCLA, but there are two more in the Ryerson collection [A.I., Chic.] and NYPL. OCLC, no locations for this facsimile, issued in a limited edition, no limitation given. Very small edge tear on sheet 1 Rpd., in Orig. wood grain folder, copies of the Pict. slip and title slip Fine. $1,000.00
55. Chiharu, Miura , Author, Ikeda Munehiro Illustrator : Mino Kikan [Unusual Sights at Mino]. Gifu, Miura Gyosaburo, Miura Gensuke. Meiji 12, 1879. II Volumes, 23.4 x 16 cm. TP, 7, 36, 33 sheets, including color wood block prints, colophon. An unusual local imprint featuring text and scenes of "local color," probably to encourage tourism. The 28 pages of color illustrations feature the cormorant fishing practices used locally, show fishermen and their boats, fishing scenes, specialized gear and the cormorants. Volume II shows the extraordinary wild and beautiful scenery, rocky gorges, waterfalls, fog, but the bulk of the illustrations are in volume I. RLIn locates a copy at LC and a 1976 facsimile. But there also is a copy in Mitchell’s collection, now at NYPL, not yet cataloged. Not in BL, BN, KVK. Original blue wraps, lacks title slip for Volume I, otherwise identical to Mitchell’s copy. Fine printing, VG state. $ 2,875.00
56. Chikuto, Nakabayashi; Chikuto Gako [Studies of Painting by Chikuto] Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Fujii Magobei, two others, Bunka 8, 1812, 27.3 x 18.5 cm, Sheets 3, 19. Total 19 page, 3, 2P. Illus. 1, 19, total 17 Illus. Orig. blue gray wraps, Ptd. title slips. Wood blocks printed in black and white plus occasional light color. First Edition. Chikuto was the founder of a school of Nanga artists following Chinese models as he did. Br. P.107, Toda, 421, Mitchell 237, BM (1904) 16110.e9, Sor. 536. KS 5.621.2. Covers rubbed, worn, a little marginal water stain, F/VG. $2,850.00
57. Chinnen, Onishi: Sonan Gafu [A Book of Drawings by Sonan]. Edo, Tempo 5, [1834], Kobayashi Shimbei and Osakaya Gembei. I volume, [3], preface, 26 sheets of illustration. 26.9 x 18.3 cm. Orig. covers, yellow, with large blue printed medallion repeated; lacks most of title slip, which however is black on gray. The last page is signed by Chinnen and sealed [orange]. Sonan is an art name of Chinnen. He studied many styles, Maruyama under Nangaku, Nanga under Tani Buncho, Chinese painting of the tenth to 13^th centuries and Tosa figure painting. He was able to work successfully on any subject, reflected in the pictures in this album which is regarded as the finest of his picture books. Ryerson P. 396, Holloway 17, BN (1904) 16100.c8: Duret 505; Hayashi 1647; KS 5.535.2; Mitchell P. 500. Borders dusty, but F/F. $5,000.00
58. Chinzan, Tsaubaki : Chinzan Gafu Koshu [A book of Drawings by Chinzan] (Second Series) Hitomi Junshiro, Meiji 13 (1880). II Volumes complete. 15.8 x 9.4 cm. 4 Pp. of introduction, 4 Pp. of biography with a portrait of Chinzan in color wood cut; 4 Pp. of his seals, half title and 30 sheets of woodcuts after bird and flower paintings. Vol II TP 19 sheets of woodcuts after bird and flower paintings and figure paintings.3 sheets of end note colophon and Ads. See Mitchell Pp. 239=240; Hillier cataloged the copy at the BM: OA 425, it is also mentioned in Brown P. 120. However this copy contains a biography and portrait of the artist unnoted by Hillier and therefore not present in the BM copy. Original light brown covers, one original title slip, the other a calligraphic replacement, OW near Fine. $850.00.
59. Dojin, Sanmi [Pseud] Oyananu on. [Stories Loved by Parents] Meiji 25 [1893]. Fifth issue [April].  The first issue was in March. 122 Pp., colophon, book catalog [8 Pp.] [19 cm.  A Japanese Children's book for home use, tales for children, all the cuts include kids.  The front board shows a cock, with folding frontispiece 2 further illustrations. All are woodcuts in color, signed and sealed, unread. Unnoted in BM 1897, 1905, not in OCLC, RLIN, Etc. Lacks rear wrap, otherwise a Very Good copy. $875.00
60. Fukui Gessai Editor: Sho Taika Kacho Gafu [Drawing Book of Flowers and Birds]: Kyoto, Meiji 30 (1897) 24.1 x 16.5; Title page, (Bijutsu Oyo) Sho Taika Kacho Gafu, editor…Fukui Gessai; copyright registered. 13 sheets [unnumbered] calligraphy 1 page, undated, signed Rosetsu, sealed. The artists included follow Mitchell’s pattern and include Okyo, Rosestsu, Goshun, Kangyo, Kansai, Keibun, Ganku, Buncho and Soken. All the works are signed and sealed. They are followed by a page of Ads and a colophon which precisely dates the book as 30 Meiji. This is a collection of the most renowned of all Japanese specialists in flower and bird painting. Mitchell P. 489, is the only copy in any Western collection. Mitchell’s copy, apparently had no date, and may have been a later issue. The covers are greenish blue with much mica included. The title slip is glued to the center of the wrap and is printed in seal characters [!]. Original silk ties, a near Fine copy. $1250.00
61. Fusanobu, Tomikawa, artist: Hitori musha hirai Yasumasa. [Martial events in the life of Yasumasa] [One of the retainers of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raiko)]. Tokyo, Okumuraya Genroku, Meiwa 5 (1768). A kibyoshi in 3 Pen [Volumes] Complete, as published, 5 sheets in each pen, all are illustrations, thus each pen contains 4 double page and 2 single page illustrations; 18 cm. The pagination is continuous 1 though 15. It is said to have been published in Meiwa 5 (1768). Each wrapper has a ¾ P. title which includes a large illustration for the story. Each title slip has a different scene. Nine pages have been partially colored in a period hand. The coloring is neat and characteristic and in no way troublesome. The printing is Fine, and the state of the books and their contents is near Fine for this period. The first page of vol.1 and the last page of vol.3 carry the name of the artist Tomikawa Fusanobu (who also seems to have used the name Yamamoto Fujinobu, when he ran his own publishing firm. The publisher’s name is not given but his mon, a gourd shape, at the base of the title slip, on the left, is sufficient to name him. Unloc. in Ryeson, OCLC or Cambridge Romaji. A rare example of Ukiyo’e street literature in near optimum condition, with no wormage, water or other stain, complete with all three title slips in excellent condition. $3,850.00
62. Genbei, Chojiya: Dai Nihon Dochu Ezu [Guide to Japan] Kyoto, Tempo 12, 1843. Folding colored woodcut map of Japan, 121 x 37 cm. in length. The map is carefully worked out in an archaic style. The map shows the whole of Japan, but it is shaped as in early maps and not with the greater amount of geographical knowledge available to geographers at the time it was published. Japanese geography having been influenced by European learning through their contact with the Dutch. Beans 1843.2. Original case, manuscript title. Except for the replaced title, a Fine copy. $650.00
63. Genkai, Amano?[Artist] Yamada Sadazane, Author[?] Fuyo Kikan Zenzu [Spectacular Views of the Great Pink and White Lotus Flower of Mount Fuji., Full Set] Bunsei 11, (1828). Date of closing note, Publisher and place not given, 1 Vol., folding album color printed illustrations with gauffrage, 23.5 x 18.2 cm. Beautiful views of Mt. Fuji, a symbol of Japan and the most formidable of the Kami [Gods or God abodes] were made by this otherwise unknown artist of the province Suruga, who enjoyed viewing it, from there, all his life. Fuji is shown from different viewpoints and accompanied by Chinese poems. It is an extremely sophisticated and beautiful album in the classical tradition. Although Ryerson has a copy of this book it is described somewhat differently there. Sadazane is given as the publisher, which is not quite what the text reads. The location of the views is the same, however, there it is mentioned that the city of Shizuoka is now located where these views were taken. Toda [Ryerson collection] P. 399; KS, 7.141.3. Dashkevitch, 128 [this copy] And plate, Not in Mitchell, Javal, Holloway,Brown, Duret, Gonse, Odin or any of his other sources, and belongs. This is the second known copy outside of Japan. A Fine copy in original sensitively printed wraps, title slips. A limited issue very well printed on fine paper. $5,750.00
64. Ginkei, Hata, Compiler; Shoga Kaisui [Selected Collection of Calligraphy and Painting] Edo, Ensekiro. Tempo 3 , 1832., 23 x 15 cm., III Volumes. TP, 8Pp. of Prefaces, 29, 35, 36 sheets. The compiler, an obstetrician and like many western doctors, a collector, reproduces the works of his many artist friends. Apparently as a record of his collection. Our copy seems to show that new editions were produced as the collection grew. Mitchell, Pp. 482,483, example "A" and Ryerson Pp. 393-394 describe the same edition of the same work. Mitchell also has a one-volume edition in précis form (perhaps a masterworks of the collection album?). This edition, with 25 sheets (50 Pp.) and 50 illustrations more than theirs must be an unknown intermediate edition. Mitchell's edition "B" has new illustrations not found in "A", as well leaves some out. This collation has all the new illustrations + others, and all the old ones, ergo five to ten years later than 1832. All plates within black lined borders, with a short commentary in smaller letters above. Includes: Tani Buncho, Shibata Zeshin, Yota Chikoku, Okada Kanrin, Watanabe Kazan, Onishi Chinnen, Arai Chikuto, inter alia. Unrecorded enlarged edition of a significant classical school album. Original Dec. stamped rust boards, title slips, black on white within borders (these partly torn away), TP black on light yellow paper, Fine Ptg. VG. $3,250.00

GOSHUN’S ONLY BOOK

65. Goshun, Matsumura: Shin Hana Tsumi [New Flower Gathering]. Osaka (1797?) 1784, date of closing note by Goshun. 26 x 18 cm. Unpaginated but counted as 42 sheets with 2 sheets of ads and a last sheet including a colophon. Goshun, originally a native of Kyoto, a painter poet and calligrapher was a student of Maruyama Okyo, founder of the Maruyama School and of Yosa Buson, the great Haiku poet and painter. Eventually he founded the Shijo School, named after the main street in Kyoto on which at that time the artists had their studios. It became the reigning school in 19^th century Japan. It was painting with the fluid Chinese style Japanese brush, but from nature in color. Okyo had been influenced in various ways by Western art. Goshun, influenced by Okyo and Buson adapted what had heretofore been an exclusively Western procedure, that of working directly from nature in color. He was not a tight painter, however, and strove to grab the "chi" of what he saw rather than the details. This is the only book entirely by him, and it is an homage to Buson. Haiku poems were often accompanied by quick synopsizing sketches which recorded something of the event of the Haiku. These were called haiga. Buson was the greatest haiga painter of all time. This book is Buson’s diary of one of his wanderings through Japan, printed in his own handwriting, and illustrated by Goshun with Haiga in Buson’s manner. One of the paintings is a sketch of Buson, himself, dressed as a monk. It has always been a rarity and much sought after in Japan, since it embodies the spirit of two of the greatest masters. Goshun, himself, was a fine Haiga poet. The order of the pages in this copy does not follow the proper order for known copies of First Edition first issues. Ryerson, Pp.377-78, Plate 11; Mitchell Pp. 475-476, Plate 3; Holloway, P. 107, #22; H. & S. No. 68, Brown P. 91, Chibbert P. 220, KS 4.761.2, Dashkevitch 101[this copy]. Original blue wrappers, worn and flaking, manuscript title slip. Internally fine in Chitsu. $15,000.00
66. Hakuin: Hakuin Yokosen. ND, But signed and sealed, First Edition Ca. 1840. UP, [27 sheets including TP],original wraps, title slip. Posthumous publication of the works of one of the greatest masters of Zenga, who died in 1768. The pages are purposefully transparent so that illustrations call to each other through the pages. Scarce in Western collections. Not in Ryerson, Mitchell, Etc. Fine printing, VG state. The worm holes are all, conveniently in the margins, as are the few pages with a little stain, an occasional small brush mark on the pages, and the wraps are worn; Very Good, over all. $850.00
67. Hanzan, Matsukawa: Hanzan Gafu (Hanzan’s Sketchbook) Tokyo, Meiji 28, 1895. Publisher Hifumikan, Illustrated by Hanzan. Original blue covers diagonal patterns, lacks title slip, but has the carefully described gourd title page, noted by Mitchell, opposite the red title page laid down on the wrap. This is an issue one year later than Mitchell’s, and is similarly unpaginated. It has 28 of 29 single page plates, and may have been complete in that form. The lacking plate has been carefully nipped out leaving a stub. It is printed in black and white with light colors. Mitchell Pp. 288-289, with a history of the book. Aside from the flaws noted a good copy. $350.00
68. Hirase, Yoichiro: Kai sen-shu. [A thousand varieties of shells] Kyoto, Unsodo, 1915. 1 vol. 100 illustrations in full color from woodblocks 20 plates. 25x18cm. Title in Japanese; "Explanation of plates in Japanese and English; Printed on one side of double leaves in Japanese style, issued as a folding album bound in boards covered with silk with central title slip. The reproductions of shells are extraordinary and may be among the finest examples of their kind in the entire history of Japanese woodblock printing. This copy includes a correspondence between Mr. Hirase and Edward J. Nolan the recording secretary and librarian of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. The letters are very warm, friendly and Mr. Hirase’s full of details of his life at his Conchological museum and future plans for it in Kyoto. His letters are typewritten and total 7 pages, all written between 1914 and 17. Unaccountably, one of Mr. Nolan’s replies is here. The front of the original package in which the book was sent is tipped in on a rear blank. . OCLC/RLIN, 2 Locs of all 4 volumes, 1 of volumes 3 and 4 only, one of 1-3(at Stanford). The book is in excellent condition, one page edge in the Japanese introduction is a little rough and it and the two in the sheets of the Explanation of plates also have brown edges, OW VG. $850.00
69. Hiroshige, Ichiryusai : Ryakuga Korin-Fu Sohitso Rissai Hyaku Dzue. [One Hundred Drawings after Korin in Sketch Style]. Kaei 4 [1851] (Edo), 18 x12 cm. TP, (l), 1-20 Sheets. Complete in one volume. Drawings in the cursive style popularized by Keisai, but here laid at Korin’s door, in line and light colors but consistent with the Nanga tradition, which often informed Hiroshige's prints. They are in fact, all original compositions in the traditions of those brush stroke painters. Most are small, but the last opening has a 2 page drawing of an elephant. Subjects include people, fish, flowers, birds, animals and landscape. A pattern book for beginners. But a hugely sophisticated work, much like the work of Maruyama and Shijo artists who worked in a free brush but influenced by Western examples of perspective and direct painting from nature. Brown, P. 195, not in Toda. Unnoted in RLIN or OCLC, which notes 507 works by Hiroshige, often under his alternate first name of "Ando". That catalog includes various editions of his ten-volume work of views in Edo, for example, but not this elusive work. Original wraps, color printed TP, ands title slip, Fine printing, VG state, lower corners of pages and boards a little rubbed. $1,750.00
70. Hiroshige, Ichiryusai; Ryakuga Korin-fu Sohitsu Rissai Hyaku Dzue. [One Hundred Drawings after Korin in Sketch Style] Kaei 4 [1851] (Edo), 18 x12 cm. TP, (l), 1-20 Sheets. Complete in one volume. Drawings in the cursive style popularized by Keisai, in line and light colors but consistent with the Nanga tradition, which often informed Hiroshige's prints. Most are small, but the last opening has a 2 page drawing of an elephant. Subjects as above. A pattern book for beginners. Brown, P. 195, not in Toda. Orig. wraps, color printed TP, lacks title slip, Fine printing, VG state, a little rubbed, wraps wrinkled near string ties. $1,050.00
71. Hiroshige, Ichiryusai; Sohitsu Gafu [Book of Painting in Cursive Style] Kaei 1 [1848] (Edo), 18 x12 cm. II Volumes, TP, (l), 1-20 Sheets. TP 17 sheets [of 20]. Complete in two volumes. Drawings in the cursive style popularized by Keisai, in line and light colors but consistent with the Nanga tradition, which often informed Hiroshige's prints. Subjects include people, fish, flowers, birds, animals and landscape. The title of each picture is placed in such a manner that it may be a guide to placement of titles by amateurs. It is otherwise a pattern book for beginners. Brown, P. 195, Toda P. 298. Original wraps, color printed TP, without title slips, Fine printing, some worming and handling, as well as a few spots where sumi got on the book, a little rubbed, especially in the lower outer corner. $875.00
72. Hiroshige, Ichiryusai: Ehon Edo Miyage [Famous Places of Edo] Edo, Kinkodo, Kikuya Kozaburo publisher. Ca 1850-1860 17.2 x 11.8 cm. printed in black and white and light colors throughout. All of his favorite views seen again in a new context with amazing freshness as though he had never done the big Oban series. Odd volumes only. Volume 5; TP, 24 sheets, colophon, Original wrappers and printed title slip, near Fine; Volume 3 TP1, 25 sheets. [Lacks half of title slip OW Fine]; Volume 6, TP, 1, 23 sheets. Brown, P. 195; Ryerson P. 298-99; KS 1.490.3. Small bit out of title slip OW VG, clean bright copy. $650.00 Each.
73. Hobun, Kikuchi: Hobun Gafu. (Hobun’s Sketchbook) Kyoto, Meiji 23[1890]. Original dark blue covers, Original cover title in black on a red slip. 24 cm., Title page printed on red paper, 1 sheet, showing flowering cherry on recto, preface on verso [unnumbered] and 25 sheets of color illustrations of flowers and birds, and fish, and ending with a half sheet showing a mouse. Hobun, originally from Kyoto, was a student of Kano Hoen and Kono Bairei. He remained in Kyoto where he lived and worked and taught at the Kyoto Art Academy. He shared one book with another artist, and contributed to several others, but this is his only complete book. It is quite lovely and he has a distinctive voice. Mitchell, Pp. 298-299. did not have a copy and only found that in the Richard Lane collection in Kyoto. No copy is recorded in the West. The last page is signed hobun and sealed the same [in red]. A lovely copy with some rubbing to the wraps, OW FINE. $2,175.00
74. Hoensai, Okamoto editor; Matsukawa Hanzan illustrator. Daifuku Setsuyo Mujinzo [An Encyclopedia]. Kyoto, Edo (3 Pubs. Osaka, 2 more), Bunkyu 3, 1863, 24.6 x 16.8 cm. 69, 121 Numbered sheets, Col. BM copy has one more sheet. Begins in color woodblock; 4Pp. of colored borders, 2 Pp. Illus. of the Temple of Giron in Kyoto, thronged with people; Temple in Edo where rakes are sold (people carrying these); Harbor at Osaka filled with shipping; Old Japanese style map of the world with ship carrying British (!) flag; Map of Japan. B&W two page maps of Kyoto, Yedo, Osaka. Then, small landscapes, text above, portraits of peoples of the world: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Okinawan, Tonkin, Mongol, Dutchman, American (Perry in uniform), Englishman, Russian, French man,"Sei-nia"; "Horitania"; Armenian woman, Hindu woman; "Kat-chi"; Inhabitant of Ceylon; "Yuzo"; Island barbarians with long legs! ; Giants and Dwarfs. Properly folded letters, small pictures of etiquette for men (two clipped); Tea ceremony, Japanese armor (tiny clipping). Other topics: animal kingdom, swords, tsuba and crests; palmistry, physiognomy, scenes of misfortunes of married life. Heavily illustrated throughout, most picture sections with lightly penciled translation. Binding knot visible at last leaf, no sign of further leaves. Mitchell P. 241 [l Loc.], BM 1898 P.151, Brown P. 80. Original wraps, worn, Ptd. title slip, first page (affixed verso cover) torn, mended, Fine/VG. With all faults a pleasant copy. $875.00
75. Hokkei, Totoya Egoyomi in the Form of a Surimono for the Year Bunsei 12. (Edo) NP, Bunsei 11, 1828-29. Chuban. This surimono is in the form of a Noh play, with a Noh actor, wearing dragon costume and mask. He glares down at a snake {zodiacal symbol for the next year, Tempo I}. The vest of his costume bears the numbers of the long months. Hokkei is revered as one of the finest Surimono artist of all the Japanese printmakers. Bowie "Art of the Surimono" in general but especially Pp. 93, 122, 144. Forrer, Egoyomi and Surimono Pp.15-19, 47, [See Turk, Prints of Japan P.83, Pp. 277-78.]. Fine printing and color, surface lightly rubbed, blank corners symmetrically clipped, OW Gd. $675.00
76. Hokusai Katsushika : Hokusai gafu. dzen. 1849. Edo, Nagoya; [1], 16 [of 20] leaves: 1 page preface, 16 Pp. of wood cut pages in black and white with a pink block.23 cm. Includes figures, shipping, plants, birds, sea creatures, insects animals, buildings, landscape. This can also be found as one volume of three. Kokusho somokuroku, v. 7, p. 307, OCLC, 1 Loc. in the USA [LC]. Lacks colophon. Original covers, title slip as is all pages are clean, unfoxed and without water stain, Fine/Fine. $350.00
77. Hokusai, Katsushika: Hokusai Manga. Misc. sketches by Hokusai [for craftsmen]. Pub. Eirakuya Toshiro of Nagoya, others from Edo and Kyoto, 1845. Oblong, [12mo size] UP, 62Pp. [31 sheets]. Most designs meant for inro. BL, Volume 1, Unnoted in Ryerson. Not in RLIN. Orig. title slip, western cloth rebinding, colophon, light worming, Rprd., lower corners of early sheets rubbed, OW VG. $785.00
78. Hokusai, Katsushika: Kacho Sansui Gashiki [Sketchbook of Birds and flowers, landscapes for Artisans] Edo, Meiji Rpt., ND, Ca. 1880. Oblong 12mo II Vols. 2 Pp. note, 40 Pp. woodcuts, 2Pp. note, 40 Pp. Woodcuts includes all possible subjects, people, animals, fish, dragons. This is a reprint of a work published within Hokusai’s lifetime. Unnoted in Ryerson or Brown, not in OCLC. In the original flexible boards, printed title slips, Fine. $450.00
79. Hokusai, Katsushika: Ryakuga Oshie Ni-hen [s.n.] Edo, 1812, 1, 27 leaves[54 Pp. of illustrations with text] The artist’s name is mentioned in the preface and also in the listing in the Japanese bibliography, Kokusho somokuroku (1989). Publication date also taken from preface. There is one copy of volume two only, noted in OCLC, at UCLA. Toda P. 254 has the complete set of two volumes. Notes that this volume gives instruction as to how to make a drawing using a ruler and a pair of compasses. In other words, using basic geometric forms, which then are elaborated with the specific details. Volume two uses an assemblage of Japanese letters to make images. Very Good copy, well printed. But the original title slip has faded to illegibility. $575.00
80. Hokusai, Katsushika: Shuga Ichiran [Excellent Paintings at a Glance] Edo, [Bunka 15] 1818, 25.9 x 17UP, 21 sheets, TP + 41 FP Color woodcuts. Original title slip, covers, flaked, soiled, text rubbed especially where turned with a damp thumb in the lower corners, ink stains on 2 pages. One of the most famous Hokusai albums. Goncourt said, "Ce livre...est, avec le Shashin Gwafou, l'album ou Katsushika Hokusai se montre le plus magistral, le plus en possession de tout son talent." [This book together with the "Shashin Gafu" is the album [of] Hokusai’s in which he demonstrates the greatest mastery and where he is in greatest possession of his talent]. Hillier devotes a chapter to it in his study of Hokusai’s book illustrations. Color versions, as here, are particularly sought after. But, like all other copies of the color version, this copy lacks the preface, Pp. 18-21 and the colophon. Priced as a copy for study and enjoyment, faults noted. Toda P. 257, KS 5.835, Lane P. 273, No. 186, Hillier Pp. 112-120, 200. Very Good Printing. about Good state. $1,125.00
81. Hokusai Katsushika: Wa-Kan ehon sakigake. Shohen. Published by Kitajima, Junshiro. ; Sugita, Kinsuke; Egawa, Tomekichi. Edo, 1836. [1], [1], 30 leaves ([60] p.), [1]. 60 Pp. Illustrations, 23 cm. Title from inner cover: "Choko Egawa Tomekichi." Signed- Zen Hokusai Aratame Gakyo Rojin fude. A volume of soldiers in action. Considered one of the late great works. OCLC: 2 Locations thus at the Freer Gallery and U Mass. Amherst. Very Good except for a Japanese style label in manuscript, written in Romaji. $875.00
82. Imao, Keinen. : Keinen kacho gafu [Keinen Bird and Flower Sketch book] Tanaka, Jirokichi –Author of preface Kyoto: Nishimura Sozaemon, 1891-1892.Volumes I and 2 of four. Folio, 37 cm., 20 FP plates with 31 illustrations in Volume 1[Spring] and 20 FP plates with 32 illustrations in Vol. II [Summer]. The album did consist of four volumes, which dealt with the flowers and birds of Japan during the four seasons of the year. I rescued these two from an antique dealer who had been selling the plates one at a time for framing, an unfortunate practice that is common with this book. This is the second edition, which Bartlett and Shohara say differs from the first edition only in not having lacquer added to the colors in the eyes of the birds. Mitchell, Pp. 358-59; B. & S. 99; Ryerson 427; Happer I, 353. OCLC, 6 Locs. [TYC, UIU, EYM, PULEA, UBY]. These two volumes in fine condition throughout in the original wrappers. However these gold-flecked wrappers have the titles written on them calligraphically with a bold but clear hand, so the original printed title slips are lacking. $2750.00
83. Itcho, Hanabusa; Hanabusa Ippo, copied by... ; Eishi Gahen [Book of Pictures by Master Hanabusa] Edo, Owada Yasubei; Osaka, Onogi Isibei. Horeki 2, 1752, 27 x 18 cm III Vols. bound as one. 26, 24, 24 sheets, colophon attached rear board, with one title page but with closing note at the end of each of three volumes. 75 sheets including 137 pages of woodcuts after paintings printed in black and white. With original covers and title slip, Impression and imprint near fine, with just a small worm hole in the last few pages and the cover, where it has been repaired. Hanabusa Itcho was a student of Kano Yasunobu. He formed his own style with its major subject matter Edo genre scenes. This collection is primarily such scenes but includes landscape, flower and bird, marine life, the supernatural, Etc. Ryerson erroneously credits them to Ippo himself and considers these inferior to Itcho’s work! That copy lacks the colophon or is a later issue. Gonse (l) P.170, Javal P. 59, Hayashi No. 1613, Ryerson, P. 326, Ch. Pp. 196-98. Orig. wraps, printed title slip, Fine printing and state (only a couple of wormed pin holes), title slip somewhat eroded, in chitsu. $3,500.00
84. Jichosai; Ehon Kototsugai [A Picture Book of counterparts] Osaka, Kawachiya Kihei, Nagoya, Kajita Kensuke. Bunka 2, 1805, 25.1 x 18 cm., III Volumes. 11 sheets [of which 2 are preface, 9 sheets, 8 sheets, with colophon A reprint, from the untouched original blocks, before Meiji. Jichosai worked in an original Japanese caricature tradition called Toba'e (after Toba Sojo a much earlier comic artist, although it has nothing to do with him). It is expressive through gesture and exaggeration, rather than characterization, which is kept to a minimum. His subjects come from every day life, very often from the popular theatre. Toba-e had wide influence on the other schools, especially Shijo and Nanga, but it can be felt in the books of Hiroshige and Hokusai, and in Kyoka illustration as well as satirical books from all schools. Toba'e is perhaps the least avidly collected of all the traditional schools, both in Japan and abroad. Toda P. 344, Mitchell P. 246, Hayashi 1620, Brown P. 75, Chibbert P. 198. Original wrappers, printed title slips, lacks [as usual] title page, but fine printings and state. With the original printing of Volume 2. Original wraps, title slips, index, lacks TP, the last sheet [which is blank on verso, laid down on board as in all copies. Fine printing, a little foxing, hole in upper border, slight rubbing in lower corners, a little dusty, a few minor brush additions, Good state. No colophon was originally in this volume. Without either TP or colophon, exact issue cannot be determined, but a very early issue. The blocks showing no wear. $1,850.00
85. Jichosai; Tobaye Ogi no Mato [The Target of the Fan.] Osaka, Kawachiya Kihei, and one publisher in Edo. Kwansei 2, 1790, 25 x 18 cm., III Volumes. 9, 9, 9 Sheets, Colophon, Original wraps, title slips. Tobaye was an original Japanese caricature and cartoon style like nothing else in the world before or since. The original editions are now extremely rare. Zany figures doing improbable things. This volume is full of scale changes that makes one think the figures are little people, smaller than turnips on occasion, then suddenly they are full scale again. The figures go through the seasons, ending in winter with the new year. Toda P.344, who describes the first edition of 1788. Ours is probably the second issue. Wraps worn, title slips chipped, but a Very Good copy. Fine Printing and state of the plates. $2,750.00
86. Joken, Nishikawa : Zoho Ka-I Tsuscho-Ko. [A Study of Commerce with China and Other Foreign Countries. Enlarged Edition. Preface by Kinzanro Sensei]. Umemura Yaemon and Furukawa Saburobe publishers. Kyoto, Hoei 5, 1708. Second and first Illustrated edition of the First Japanese geography. Includes several plates of foreigners, including one of a Dutchman, shown smoking a pipe, and his wife, A Chinese of the Ming dynasty, an Annamite couple, 4 FP plates of Nanking and Fukien junks, a double page plate of a Dutch ship and Thai ship. It also includes the first Japanese printed map of the world in a book [of the Shoho type]. It includes the Western hemisphere. Australia and New Zealand are shown as part of a large land mass, which extends to and includes the South Pole, titled New Holland [Shin Oranda]. California is not an island. Toda has a copy of a similar book with a different title, ascribed to another author which is otherwise identical in description of the number of volumes, as well as the number of illustrations and their content. Boxer, Jahn Co. in Japan 2 [P. 17]. Unnoted in RLIn, not in NUC. Complete in 5 pen, here bound into two volumes with one printed and one manuscript title slip, but lacking the title page [often the case in Japanese books, since it is affixed to the front cover, and usually discarded when that cover is replaced], and also the first sheet of text, which is replaced in a facsimile, OW VG. $10,750.00

EARLY EDITION

87. Ku Yueh Ts’ung, [Jichikusai] : Jichikusai Gafu [The Ten Bamboo Studio] (Picture Album by of Shi-Chu-Chai Hua Pu ) NP, Chieh-tzu-yuan publisher., After 1627, VIII Volumes, 22.7 x 14.3 cm. Vols. unnumbered, color prints, pagination agrees with Toda. Folding albums, printed in color without outlines. One of the most famous Chinese illustrated books in an early Japanese edition, late 17th or early 18th centuries. It was very influential in Japan, particularly on Nanga and Shijo artists, but Ukiyo'e artists like Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi were also influenced. Color plates printed by a combination of woodblock and stencil, outlines kept to a minimum, resulting in a flowing and easy, "naturalistic" image. The paintings chosen by the author, copied for woodblock printing in 1627 in China were those of revered artists of previous generations, reflecting "scholars" taste in art and natural forms. All early editions are rare. Light foxing, water stain, heavier in two volumes. Original woven silk covers, central title slips, Fine printing and VG State, not withstanding some light water stain. 15,000.00
88. [Juvenile Christian Tract] Jinzaemon, Matsuda; Inga no Kagami [Reflections on Causes and Effects] Osaka, Yamaguchi Tsuneshichi, Meiji 24, 1891. Large 16mo, 13Pp. + [4Pp., book Cat.]. Pict. Wraps, VG-showing a [misguided] Buddhist monk preaching to school children [Toba’e-like]. American Mission Publication, for children. Two Illustrations within, one of construction, and one of hell. Unlocated at OCLC/RLIN, Harvard Yenching, Cambridge "Romaji". Very Good. $150.00
89. Johaku, Naemura, author/illustrator; Revised by Ranzan Takai; Onna Choho-ki [A Useful Book for Women.] NP (Lacks 1/3 of colophon), 8, 1704. 25.7 x 18 cm. V Vols. 20, 18, 2-16 and 18-21, 21, 20 Sheets. See Toda, Ryerson Collection P. 83 for an earlier version of this work. I have not found this version in any Western library. Five Vols. bound in one: Volume l. culture in general including dress, posture, cooking and make up, [five Illus.] including one showing the inside of a kitchen, utensils, and the meal being eaten. 2. Wedding Ceremonies [and illustrations] emphasize food preparation and service [ten Illus.]. 3. Child Birth [five Illus.] 4. Various Arts, i.e. Calligraphy, Music, Gardening, [seven Illus.]. 5. Seasonal Symbolism, Paper folding [twenty-seven Illus.]. This volume [5] departs in subject from the original editions. Illustrated in a spirited early Ukiyo-e style. Lacks 2 sheets at the end. Later wraps, Manus. title slip, VG printing, Good State, faults noted. $ 850.00
90. Kaan, Nagata, author; Illustrator: Miki Ikkosai: Kaigai jimbutsu shu. [Foreign Peoples Collection] [ S. L.: s.n.] Kaei 7 [1854] 25 cm, II Vols. TP, 25, 25 sheets. Full page illustration in color in every page except the introduction [60 Pp. of Illus]. Some of the illustrations in volume 1 are double page. The woodcuts are forerunners of the Yokohama style, which began after 1855, when Yokohama became the treaty port. This category of book is dealt with in a chapter of Boxer "Jahn Co. in Japan", but ours is too late to have been specifically discussed. Includes are European types, Arabs and other Muslims, as well as people from the Americas, dwarfs. Unnoted by Toda [Ryerson Collection], BM, Javal, Brown. RLIn, 1 Loc [Brigham Young U.]. Original wraps, title slips, that of volume 1 chipped, not affecting any lettering. In volume one a few folds in a sheet have separated, but nothing has been removed. Fine printings, otherwise Very Good state. $3,750.00
91. Kagen, Niwa: Fukuzensai Gafu: [Album of Drawings by Fukuzensai.] Nagoya 1814, Eirakuya Toshiro. 5 pen [volumes], original gray wrappers, title slips, clean, strong impression, in near fine condition, woodblock printed on handmade paper, 15 x 27 cm. Mitchell’s issue "b". Printed from wood blocks in color after paintings by Niwa Kagen [1742-1786], a samurai who used Fukuzensai as a studio name. Kagen was a close friend of Ike no Taigado. He based his style on Ming dynasty Chinese painting and was heavily influenced by Bunjinga [Chinese literati painting, most of whose artists were ‘amateurs’ in that they worked for love of the art rather than personal preferment or fees]. The illustrations are divided by subject into five volumes: landscapes, figures [often scholars in their retreats], birds, animals and flowers, fruits and vegetables. These relate to Chinese literati subjects also followed by poets, who often were synonymous with the painters. The gardens in which scholars are shown often correspond to Chinese retreats, with strangely shaped stones, found in nature and other typical bunjinga features. See Holloway p24. Brown p.116 but there titled: Kacho Koretsu. Mitchell p.256. According to Ryerson [p.420] this work was first issued in black and white only, and was only later published by color printing. According to Mitchell only 2 copies of this state exist in the Western world, that of Duret and that owned by Hillier. Mitchell notes only 3 copies of this issue and a few odd single volumes. This copy was purchased in Japan from a collector in Nagoya, who also owned one of the paintings reproduced in the land- scapes section, which is rated a ntional treasure and cannot be exported. One of the greatest examples of Japanese Bunjinga albums. Printed on much finer paper, than usual, in the traditional Chinese oblong, tall format. There is some worming, but it has negligible effect on the images, mostly being in blank areas. $6,250.00
92. Kanenari, Akatsuki: Ogura Hyakushu Ruidai Hanashi [Stories with the poems of One Hundred Poets Taken as the Titles.] Kawachiya Heishichi, Osaka. III Volumes printed in full color throughout with gauffrage. 25 cm., 12 ½, 12½, 12½. With the last page a half sheet attached to the rear board in each case. Akatsuki Kanenari was an Ukiyo-e print artist and illustrator of the Osaka school. His illustrations show the influence of Hokusai and Hokuei. His kyoka parody sixteen poems from the classic anthology, Hyakunin Issu. Refined design, gauffrage and bokashi grading of colors make this work notable. Ryerson, P. 285; KS!, 635.3; BL P.79; Lane, P.283. Wraps very worn, ¾ of one title label and ½ of another are original. The filled in labels are photocopied. Somewhat worn and dusty, but still Very Good. $1,250.00
93. Kanyosai Kange Shinan [A Guide to Chinese Painting] Edo, Suwaraya Ichibei, Kyoto, Yoshinoya Tamehachi, three others, Anei 8, 1779, II Vols. 27 x18.8 cm. 4,27, 36 Sheets with 41 double page and 12 single page Illus. A drawing book meant to show the principles and to give examples in the art of Chinese, southern style (Nanga) painting in landscape and in the "four paragons". (Orchid, Bamboo, Chrysanthemum and Cherry). A major Japanese model book. Mitchell 335, BM 1898 P. 86 (incomplete), Toda 414, Brown P. 115. Original light blue wraps, printed title slips, these worn. Contents Fine Printing and state. Probably a later issue, circa 1790. $3,750.00
94. Kanyosai : Mokyo Wakan Zatsuga [Miscellaneous Japanese and Chinese Pictures by Mokyo] Kyoto, Hishiya Magobei, Kowa 2,1802. 25.4 x 17.7 cm., in Five volumes: (3), 27, 22, 21, 22, 25 sheets; colophon. 107 double page illustrations. Original wraps and title slips. First issued in 1772, the second issue. A much appreciated work in which all of the drawing s, landscape, animal, birds, fish, whether original or taken from a Chinese source are so completely reworked by Kanyosai with such force, spirit and intensity that they become original works of his, of the highest quality. Only six copies of the original 1772 edition are known in the West [3 in the BL since the nineteenth century]. The others are of this second issue. Here too, a number of locations report incomplete copies or odd volumes, or those bound up with a portion of the sheets only. A rare and exemplary work in a Japanese Bunjinga style. Mitchell P. 422, 423, BM 1898, P. 87, Duret 463, Holloway Fig. 2, 89-91, Javal I, Pl. VIII, Ryerson Pl. 2, Brown P.115. None of the copies of this second edition noted by Mitchell are complete. They all lack volumes. This is a complete set. The wrappers are worn and rubbed, with some worm eaten places on the title slips. The rear wrapper of Volume V with a gouge from the rear, with paper loss on the colophon in a blank area. The text and prints are fine printings in fine state, without any stains, wear or worming. In chitsu. $10,000.00

AN IMPERIAL PICTURE ALBUM.

95. Kangxi emperor. Illustrated by Jiao Bengzhen. Yu zhi geng zhi tu [Illustrations showing rice growing and the processes of silk manufacture.] Beijing, Ca. 1750, II Vols. 9 1/2" x 7". Chinese Binding,46 openings, FP wood block Illus. Poetry and text in each opening. Orig. wraps, Manus. Title slips, professionally Rpd. and resewn, new EPs, margin last sheet (text) Vol I Rpd., last 1/2 sheet (blank) replaced, OW Fine. The original version of this as an illustrated book was titled Geng zhi tu, produced by Lou Shou in 1237. A new version with poetry by the Kangxi Emperor was issued in 1696, the second edition, plates recut in a new format, taller and thinner. The full-page illustrations very beautifully and complexly cut, in fine printings in this copy. Each volume has, loosely inserted, a manuscript index to plates in English and Chinese. Wood, Chinese Illustration, British Library, 1985, #51 with plate. In fitted folding case, ivory catches. Orig. wraps, Manus. title slips, professionally Rpd. and resewn, new EPs, margin last sheet (text) Vol I Rpd., last 1/2 sheet (blank) replaced, OW Fine. $15,000.00
96. Katsunobu Sho : Hikan Yakuo in Konosho [Very Efficient Medicine for the pancreas and liver and for raising children], Meiji 7, [1874] Tokyo. 22.5 cm. TP, 31 sheets, colophon. Portrait in color woodblock of the author, 2 separate FP illustrations of tape worms, other intestinal worms, larvae, double page of men exhibiting various characteristic symptoms of diseases of pancreas and liver [made somewhat comical]. Unnoted in Toda, BM, RLIn, and NUC. One plate in color. Lacks title slip, wraps worn, OW VG printing and state $875.00
97. Kazan, Watanabe; Kazan Gafu [A Book of Drawings by Kazan] Tokyo, three publishers noted. Meiji 40, 1907, 25. 2 x 16.4 cm. 13 sheets, 14 sheets. Printed in color. Original yellow covers, embossed with diagonal wavy lines. Original title slips printed in black on very light orange slips. The only recorded copy outside Japan is Mitchell's, P. 349. Our copy is almost identical to his, except that the colophon is dated Meiji 40, and sealed, and the publishers are all in Tokyo. The True First Issue? In any event the large brush drawings of birds, bamboo, fish, insects, other plants, flowers, fish fruit and insects are taken from brilliant paintings and reproduced in full color by woodblock with great sensitivity and panache. In period brocade chitsu, which has seen some wear, with the original printed wrapper, which enclosed the books laid in. A stunning book. Fine Printing, MINT. $2,300.00
98. Kazan, Watanabe; Kazan Gafu [A Book of Drawings by Kazan]. Meiji 13, Kyoto and Edo. 15 x 9.4 cm. II Volumes, 3, 30, 30, 2 [1 Ads.] In black and white with light colors. The first volume primarily bird and flower, the second primarily children. Mitchell notes the title "Kazan Sensei Gafu", which is used on the title page but not on the cover, on P. 349, but locates no copies. Also in Brown, P.120, but not in Ryerson. Index of Japanese Painting, P. 57 notes this title. But no copies are noted in any of the Western sales or collections. Near Fine in original wraps with title slips, however with a little water marking in Volume 2 in the blank upper margins. $650.00
99. Keibun go, Toyohiko Okamaoto: Houkou Ihou Ryakuzu. Tempo 3 (1832) II Volumes, 25 cm, Title Page, 2 sheet preface, 22, 25, closing note, 2 sheets. Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s belongings, left when he died. Includes: Kimono, other clothing, Sculpture and lanterns, a horse painting, calligraphy, armor, mirror, mirror case, pottery including tea ware, eating utensils, toiletries, covered boxes, vases, an unusual stone displayed in a tray, low tables, charcoal burners, boxes, a bow, a seat, set of cups, ladle and tureen, low table with covered bowls; mirror with case, 3 further mirrors with cases; bags with thong ties, canes, pipe bowls, footed box, jewelry, women’s clothing and boots? Beautifully presented. Kokusho so Mokuroku, 56597. Original binding with complex block printed design including foliage and dragons in blue on white. Fine copy. $450.00
100. Group Keijo Gaen [An Album of Pictures by Kyoto Artists] Kyoto, Bunka 11 [1814] One volume in folding album style. 26.2 x 18.5 cm. Original covers, now a mottled tan, with original title slip. 31 sheets [unnumbered] 1-2 Calligraphy reading Keijo Gaen. Pp. 3-4 Preface, 4 Pp. dated Bunka 9 [1812]. 5- 30 double pag e color illustrations after: Matsumura Goshun, Yamaguchi Soken, Hara Zaimei, Kino Kosei, Azuma Toyo, Murakami Shodo, Kishi Takudo [Gantai], Matsumura Keibun, Okamoto Toyohiko, Shiba Kokan, Nagasawa Roshu, Hokkyo Shoin, Kawamura Kiho, Kosen, Fukuchi Hakuei, Ki Chikudo, Yoshimura Kokei, Watanabe Nangaku, So Gyokurin, Aikawa Minwa, Oku Bummei, Maruyama Osui, Maruyama Oju, So Geppo, Hatta Koshu, Shibata Gito. For 26 double paged illustrations. The closing note printed in green is undated. Only in the color of the closing note does this copy differ from that in Mitchell’s collection. Other recorded examples, BM, 1904, Gillot, Gonse. Holloway, Leyden, Ryerson. Brown discusses the book, but her copy is now in Ryerson. This, after Meika Gafu is the most celebrated of all Japanese painting anthologies in book form. All of the schools are represented by their major or even the crucial figures [such as Goshun, founder of the Shijo school]. This copy is a mixture. The boards are very worn and stained and scratched, as is the title slip. But they have done their job. The book proper on all of its pages, text as well as illustrations is in immaculate condition. $2,550.00
101. Keisai, Kuwagata; Jimbutsu Ryakuga Shiki [Drawings of people in sketch style] Edo, Suharaya Ichibei, Bunka 1, 1804, 27 x 18.5 cm. (1), 31 sheets with 30 Pp. of Colored Illus. from wood blocks. Later printing of Ryakuga Shiki, circa 1845-50. Spirited, abbreviated brush drawings of figures in action One of Keisai’s most famous illustrated books. Later issues were often retitled as this one. This copy belonged to Arthur Wesley Dow, with his numbered book label, a hand written release dated 1948. Dow, a close friend of Fenollosa, was the foremost American Art Nouveau art educator, as well as a sought after painter and color wood block print artist influenced by Japanese art. Orig. wraps, title slip, nearly loose OW Gd/VG. $1,225.00
102. Keisai, Kuwagata: Sansui Ryakuga-Shiki [Cursive methods of Drawing Landscapes] Edo, Suwaraya Ichibei; engraver, Shumpudo Noshiro Ryuko. Kansai 12, 1800. 27 x 18.3 cm. sheets 1-30; full color illustrations of landscape. There are no guidelines, rather areas and strokes of color, only. The book begins with sheets of two quick landscapes per page and progresses to two landscapes per opening, each stretching across two sheets, and many openings with one landscape for the two sheet openings. They are always paintings with white hot inspiration. This is one of the great tour de forces of Japanese painting and color printing. Mitchell P. 460-461, Ryerson 213, Brown P. 124, Duret 182. An absolutely Fine copy with merely s little rubbing to the front board as the only defect. Much superior to the Kaempfer copy. $2,250.00
103. Keisai, Kuwagata: Soka Ryakuga-Shiki. (Method of Cursive Drawing of Flowering Plants). Edo, Bunka 10 (1813). Original cover title, on orange board. Inside front cover, title page printed in dark green with decorative frame of bamboo. [2] Pp., preface, 30 sheets, complete, but unnumbered. The last side signed dated and with Keisai’s seal printed in ochre, as well as a group of five seals, printed in red each under one of the publishers, noted on the page. This is a very famous book. No drawn black lines are used; all printing is of colors, tints, including 5 with printed gray backgrounds. Mitchell’s copy has page numbers. However in a note he says "According to the Hayashi catalog, the colophon of the first issue showed the names of the five Edo publishers, Suwaraya Ichibei, Suwaraya Zengoro, Tsuraya Kinsuke, Hanabusa Heikichi, and Takegawa Tobei with their seals, but in later issues the publishers’ seals were omitted." This is clearly the case here. None of the catalogs speak of Keisai’s seal, but that is also printed on the page. Mitchell Pp. 497-498, Bartlett & Shohara 102; Duret 185, Gonse III, 450, Hayashi 1563, Javal I, 101, Odin 116, Ryerson 214. Reproduced in Bartlett and Shohara Fig. 93, Gonse III Pl. III, Javal I, Pl. IX, Brown, P. 124. One of the great masterworks among Japanese books in the rare First Edition First Issue. Just a touch of worming in the very wide upper border occasionally entering into blank areas in that region. Otherwise an extremely fine printing in Fine condition. $3,500.00
104. Kato, Masayoshi: AKA Keisai, Kuwagata: Keisai Soga. Shohen Dzen. Keisai Sketchbook Complete. Nagoya: Eirakuya Toshiro, Year: 1800-1899? Description: (1), [22] leaves: chiefly ill. (light colors, black and gray); 22.5 cm. Quick sketches of landscape, plants and a few animals as well as a few rustic human structures. Mitchell P. 355 notes only as part of the 5-volume set of the same name. These he locates at Ryerson 215, Duret 205, Hayashi 1561, Holloway 5, Isaac 496, and Brown on P. 124. OCLC notes copies of this volume only, published separately as here at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Harvard. Fine printing, Very Good state in original wraps, with printed title slip. Unstained and without worming. $875.00
105. Kitao, Masayoshi: AKA Keisai, Kuwagata: Keisai Soga. Sanhen Dzen. Keisai Sketchbook Complete. Nagoya : Eirakuya Toshiro, Year: after 1815 [Circa 1840] (1), [22] leaves: chiefly ill. (light colors, black and gray); 22.5 cm. Quick sketches of birds, insects, fish, flowers, animals, birds & flowers and an occasional vignette of a human structure or artifact. The last plate shows the back of a popular God with his deer behind him facing forward. Mitchell P. 355 notes only as part of the 5-volume set of the same name. These he locates at Ryerson 215, Duret 205, Hayashi 1561, Holloway 5, Isaac 496,and Brown on P. 124. OCLC notes copies of this volume only, published separately as here at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Harvard. Fine printing, About Very Good state in original wraps, with printed title slip. Unstained and without worming, but wraps rubbed, some rubbing in the lower corner affecting print. $775.00
106. Kiyomoto Hanketsu: Zentai Shinron (A New Treatise of the Whole Body.) Ansei 4[1858] , 96 leaves[192 Pp.], well illustrated with woodcuts. About 10 inches by 6.5 inches. Soft cover fukurotuji binding, still with the original thread (unfrayed). It overs (but does not limit itself to) anatomy. There are sections on animals, but most relates to the human body. The cover is very good with a little worming, there only. Contents are near-fine, with a bit of dampstaining to a few pages in the middle of the book. $875.00
107. [Kiyonaga] Michiyo, Koa, Illustrator; Kokawa Sancho, Author . Kotobuki Gomuso-no Myo Yaku. (Odd Drugs for Felicitous Fancies.) (Edo), 1784, 12mo 3 Volumes bound together, UP, but 4, 5, 5, sheets in Chitsu. A rare example of 18^th century Japanese popular fiction, the equivalent of a Western chap book series. Published in "Kiyonaga and His Book Illustrations"(in French) as Kiyonaga, it is very close to his work, but nothing is known about this artist, to whom it has only recently been attributed. Each page consists of black and white illustrations surrounded by text. While the book is pictorially complete, the title page, preface and colophon are lacking, as is often the case with these books. KS 3.520, KS Index 320.3. Dashkevitch # 30 [describing this copy]. Period plain wraps, manuscript titles, A little inoffensive coloring on a few pages, OW VG printing, state. $1,250.00
108. Kokan, Priest: Jimbutsu Soga [Figure Painting in the Cursive Style] Osaka or Kyoto, Bunshodo. After Kyoho 20, Possibly Anei 2, 1774. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. 18 sheets. Reprint later than those described by Toda, since the publisher is a new one. The artist was a Buddhist priest of the Jodo sect, student of Kano Eino, noted for carrying Kano brushwork to new extremes of urgency and scale. He is well represented here. Relatively few copies in Western collections. Toda P. 323, Javal No. 55, KS 4.767.3, Ch. P. 199. Original wraps, minor flaws, printed title slip, lacks colophon. Vol. 1 of 3 only. Fine printing /VG state. $1,000.00
109. Kosa, Uragami, Illustrator: Furyu Niwaka Tengu [Fashionable Amusements of the Tengu] Publisher Bunendo [Kawachiya Genshichiro, Osaka. First Series 1832, and second series 1841. 10 volumes five in each series, with line illustrations. 21.8 x 15.2 cm. Kosa was a pupil of Ueda Kocho. The illustrations are drawn in a fresh and intense Shijo style. K.S. 7.13.3.Dashkevitch Purto, 104. (this copy). Mitchell pp. 257-258 discusses his copy of the first series only. He does not seem to know about the existence of the second series. The only copies of both series found in the West. Fine condition in original decorative boards, block printed in orange and blue on cream, yellow title slips, printed in black. In chitsu. $2250.00
110. Koshu Hatta: Koshu Gafu [Koshu’s Sketchbook]. Setsuyo [Osaka]: Koto [Kyoto]: Kawachiya Kihe; Yoshidaya Shinbe, 1812. 33, [3] [2] leaves: Illustration in black and white and light colors. ; 27 cm. With a preface, closing note and colophon, 2 leaves of Ads. Preface and postscript both dated Bunka 9. A famous book very widely collected in Japan, and therefore less common outside the country. Kokusho somokuroku, v. 3, p. 444 (Koshu gafu, 1-satsu, auth. Hatta Koshu). Mitchell P. 378, Gillot, 649; See Brown, P. 100; OCLC 3 Locs., [LC, HIN, ZCA]. Dark green wraps with embossed design of octagons and squares, original title label, These rubbed and worn, contents, fine printing and state. In Chitsu. $2,750.00
111. Kubota, Beisai Moko shurai ekotoba Tokyo: Fuzoku Emaki Zuga Kankokai [History of the Attempted Mongol Invasion] Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1917. 3 pen [Vols.] 32, 36, 39 [1] sheets [or 64, 72, 39 Pp.], col. ill. ; 30 x 21.5 cm. double color prints from wood block: 26, 25, [2 of 1 P. plates], 17. Full colors plus silver ink. Based on a Japanese scroll first and Second attempted Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274-1281. The first publication of the illustrations was in the 1916 issue, although the text had been published fully in 1892. This scroll with its illustrations had not been produced as a book before the 20^th century. The author's name is known because it is a famous classic. The editor and the imprint are found on the last page, with a map of the location of the invasion attempt on the recto of that leaf. Text and illustrations printed within black-ruled border. Printed on double leaves in East Asian style. The first, limited, edition was published in 1916, not for sale. OCLC 3 Locs. [ZCA, YUS, UBY] This is the second and first commercial edition. Kokusho somokuroku. Vol. 7, p. 691, OCLC20922608; 2 Locs [ZCA, CLU]. Original wraps, with hand painted trees completed before addition of the title slips, A Very Good copy. $775.00
112. Kunisada, Utagawa, Illus.: Onna San Go Roku... (36 Woman's Occupations) Tokyo, Ca. 1865, Album, 15.2 x 20.8 cm. Vol I only, containing TP + l8 wood block prints on creped paper. A few hinges loose. The Occupations include doll making, Diving (The Ama), Singing, playing music, a Geisha on parade, Flower arranging, yea gathering, water carrying. Date from censor's seals. Unnoted in this form in any Western collection. These prints usually turn up individually on Hosho paper. If not creped they would be Oban size. Patterned boards; prints in fine condition, aniline color, narrow Dec. margins. $3,750.00
113. Kunisada, Yoshiiki and other Utagawa artists sign each fan : Hatsu Haru Kakizome Sugoroku [Sugoroku taken from plays shown and activities during the New Year Season.] Edo, after 1865 [Kunisada signs Toyokuni] 61.5 x 73.5 cm. Folded into boards,Japanese style. One of the most sought after Sugoroku. Twenty two separate fans are part of the larger print, eighteen of thes with portraits of an actor in character, a nineteenth shows three actors in a scene. The rest are landscapes. A short text eulogizes each. The overall design is striking and one of the largest theatrical Ukiyoye prints. Fine color and printing, no soiling or staining. $4500.00
114. Kuniteru II : Sugoroku Showing the Asakusa Pagoda. 37. 125 x 14.2 Inches with a movable overlay 9.3 inches long. It is dated Meij 23 or 1890. Drawn in Ukiyo’e style and wood blocked in full color. Several large kites fly around the pagoda, and a man is seen, first being carried aloft by a balloon, and then on a movable overlay, parachuting back to earth. With the original color woodcut illustrated bag [the equivalent of a dust jacket in its ephemeral nature. One of the largest of Japanese prints, on three full sheets, with a movable section dealing with balloning and the use of a parachute, in a movable portion. Two artists used the name Kuniteru: the second, a student of Utagawa Kunisada. His greatest period fame was as a book illustrator, especially of small, many volume novels called "Makura Zoshi." Framed under glass, and may be shipped, thus. In Fine unfaded condition. $12,775.00
115. Kuniyoshi, Utagawa : Musha Kagami [Warriors in a Mirror] Tempo 15, 1844. 7 ¼ " x 4 7/8", 26 sheets [unnumbered] of illustrations of the 47 Ronin, 11 sheets of text. Original black wraps, lacking title slip. Unnoted in Brown, Not in Ryerson, Sorimachi or Hillier. Thee is a copy in the BM. A modest book of black and white woodcuts, but a rare one. Covers rubbed and worn, lower outer corner worn and soiled, only inone case does a smallpaper loss affect an image,OW Good. $675.00

115 A. Kyoden, Santo author: Kuniyoshi, Utagawa Illus.: Oborozuki Neko-No Soshi. A Tale of Cats and the Misty Moon. 1848-1849[Kokwa 5, Kaei 2], Yamamoto Hirokichi, Edo. Volumes 6 and 7 of a Makura Zoshi. [1], [10,[1], [1],10, [1], [1], 10,[1][1], 10[1]. Pp. plus wrappers This consists of two volumes each in parts 1 and 2. Apparently therreare only 117 pages in the entire series. The first color cover of each shows a normal blackand white cat. One plays with a ball of twine, the other looks up [for an insect?]. The second color plate in each is of a cat headed human figure. There are a few pcitures of normal cats, but most often cat headed figures take part in the action. Kuniyoshi's great love of cats is well known. His pictures of cats are always intimate and well observed.KS 1.677; OCLC 7 Locs. In the US [COO, CLU, YUS, IUL, KKU, HMY, WAU] also at Waseda in in the U. of Toronto. Both volumes are wormed, the outer pages more heavily. OW Fine printings. Good only. $500.00

116. Li Yung-yun [Ri Youn] : Ri Youn Chikyu (Book of Bamboo Paintings by Ri Youn). Designs copied by Kanyosai. Kyoto, Meiwa 8 (1771). I Volume 27.3 cm. Preface dated Meiwa 8 [1771] and signed by Kinryu Toki, sealed Shaku Keishi, With 46 Pp. of illustrations in gray and black. Engraver Nagashima Rokuemon, publisher Yoshinoya Tameichi, both of Kyoto. Brown P. (1898), P. 87; Holloway 26. This first issue not in Mitchell. Two reprints of 1806 and 1846 are noted, which are much more common in the West. This copy in much worn flower imprinted wraps. Some very light waterstain in upper inner corner, light worming primarily in the margin or outside any printed surface. Just a Good plus copy. $1,125.00
117. [Ma Yu sen] Takai Ranzan henchu ; Iitsu Rojin [Katsushika Hokusai] ga. : Ehon Chukyo [Picture Book of Loyalty] [Edo] : Kobayashi Shinbe, Tenpo 5 [1834]. 25 double leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. Although the ideas behind this book are taken back to Ma Jung [79-166 A.D.] it was actually written by Ranzan. Hokusai signed one of his art names "Iitsu Rojin" to it, but his authorship is in no doubt. Title, text and illustrations refer to passages from Ma Jung’s very early treatise on loyalty, a major tenet of Confucuan thought. An imaginary portrait of Ma Jung, stretching over most of two pages begins the book. Duret 339, Brown P. 183, Toda P. 251, Lane P. 274 # 232; KS 1.497.1, RLIn, 2 Locs. Dashkevitch 49 [this copy.] Original wraps, printed title slip, a Very Good copy , Fine printings $1,750.00

JAPANESE PICTURE BOOK OF WEAPONS - FOR CHILDREN.

118. Michigasa, Inaba, based on the work of Yamaga Soko. Bugutanka Zuko [War Weapons For Children]. Edo, 1750, II Vols., Aprox. 8vo. 60Pp., 60Pp. With 227 Illus. of weapons, 2 per page. Based on a book of the 17th century by another author. First Edition, thus. "...compiled in a time of peace in order to show children what war weapons were like." Includes fire arms, both rifles and cannon, effectively banned since the 17th century. The publication of this book, was a part of reformist ferment during the economic and societal crisis of the mid-18th century. Samurai were being impoverished, had become addicted to loose living and were thought to have lost their skills and heart for combat. This book was directed at samurai children to reinstill in them knowledge of their proper role in war. Not in H, Toda, BL, NUC, RLin, OCLC. Probably reprinted later Ca.1820 VG in Orig. binding, printed title slips. $1,850.00
119. Minwa, Aikawa : Manga Hyakujo (Sketches of a Hundred Women). Bunka 11 [1814] Yoshidaya Shimbei, Kyoto; Yanagiwara Kibei, Osaka, Maegawa Rokuzaemon, Edo. Lacks 3 Pp. preface, (1-33). Original covers with dark green kamizuri decorations about ½ of the title slip. Dated, signed and sealed [2 seals] om the colophon, 2 sheets of ads. Aikawa Minwa lived in Kyoto and Osaka. Like Bumpo he was a pupil of Ganku. The drawings of women’s occupations are based, quite clearly on sketches from life in a robust style, not without humor, which also allies him to BumpoDuret 492, Hayashi 1643, Hoi 40, Odin 175, Ryerson 391, Dawes 32; KS 7.486.1, Mitchell 404. Many of the copies in the West not only lack the preface, but also lack pages of illustrations. This copy is pictorially complete in lovely condition without stains or worming. $1,750.00
120. Morikuni, Tachibana Attr. : Shasei Juzu Tsukushi(Pictures of Beasts Sketched fromLife). Kyoho 4, 1719. Vol. 1 of 2. Line illustrations. Preface, 11 sheets ,10 double page pictures, the others singel page. lacking title page and the name of the author of the preface. An Osaka artist and successor toKanoTanyu Morikuni was one of the first Kano school artists whose works were reproduced in books. The animals were,indeed,never observed in life, since they include dragones, lions, a group of animals seated in th a circle wearing Japanese court clothing, snow leopards, tigers, mythical horned, fire breathing animals, and monkeys of species not found in Japan. These were, however, the kinds of animals likely tobe used in decorative schemes in courtly interiors. The animals, however,in teir poses and gestures are often subtly anthropomorphized, and there is covert humor in all. Ryerson, P. 317; KS 4.217.1; Chibbert Pp.193-4. Dashkevitch 4. Original printed title slip, but probably later wraps.Upper corner of front wrap gone, touching the first character in the title. last ½ sheet lacking. $850.00
121. Miura Senshun, Author, Ikeda Takehiro Illustrator Mino Kikan [Unusual Sights at Mino]. Gifu, Miura Gyosaburo, Miura Gensuke. Meiji 12, 1879. II Volumes, 23.4 x 16 cm. TP, 7, 36, 33 sheets, including color wood block prints, colophon. An unusual local imprint featuring text and scenes of "local color." The 28 pages of color illustrations feature the cormorant fishing practices used locally, show fishermen and their boats, fishing scenes, specialized gear and the cormorants. Volume II shows the extraordinary wild and beautiful scenery, rocky gorges, waterfalls, fog, but the bulk of the illustrations are in volume I. It is impressive to see the quality of work of which this provincial printer was capable. It is quite wonderful. RLIn locates a copy at LC and a 1976 facsimile. But there a