The Art of the Japanese Print, Volume 7: Modern Prints I

Tokyo, Japan, Kodansha, Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available. Brand-new, still in its original cardboard packing box, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Sterling condition hardcover copy, massively heavy, oversized volume, bound handsomely in tan, heavy linen cloth boards, with sharp and distinct dark blue lettering to spine, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing neither shelf- nor edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Sumptuous dark blue (kanji lettering) and gilt (design) stamped into front cover. Illustrated endpapers in light blue and dark blue, front and rear. Many, many score black-and-white illustrations and several score tipped-in, too. Housed in slipcase covered in tan paper and with a gorgeous multi-color illustration affixed to front cover, with kanji character lettering in gilt. Comes in its own original cardboard packing case, worn and scuffed at one corner but structurally sound. Reproductions of lithographs, engravings, woodblock prints, and chromolithographs from such leading lights in Japanese art and culture as Suzuki Harunobu, Suzuki Haroshige, Kuninobu, Tosen, Masunobu, Mitsunobu, Komai Yoshinobu, Komatsuken, Minko, Ran-U, Shichu, Isoda Koryusai, Kitao Shigemasa, Ishikawa Toyomasa, Okabe Nangaku, Uchimasa, Utagawa Toyoharu and Utagawa Toyonobu. Else and withal, a gift-quality condition copy, lovely to look at and contemplate. vi [1], 1-39, 40-208 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . New

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Book number: 357135

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Japanese art history|Japanese culture|Japan|printmakers|printmaking|Suzuki Harushige|Kuninobu Tosen|Masunobu Mitsunobu|Komai Yoshinobu|Komatsuken Minko|Ran-U Shichu|Isoda Koryusai|Kitao Shigemasa|Ishikawa Toyomasa|Okabe Nangaku|Uchimasa Utagawa|Toyoharu|U

Department of Agriculture and Commerce

Japan in the Beginning of the Twentieth Cnetury

London, John Murray, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Comprises the Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Rebound in a brownish brick-red buckram cloth laid over original brick-red buckram cloth meant for library use, probably, bruising to but not breaking of tips, scuffing to edges, tips, joints, extremities, "Withdrawn from University Library" ink-stamp inside front flap, title page, most other pages, but clean and unmarked of interior. Preface by Haruki Yamawaki, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, and Japanese Commissioner for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Uber-comprehensive compendium of Japan's history and development as regards geography and agriculture, industry and transportation, trade relations and economic systems, presented during the 1805-1905 Centenary of the Louisiana Purchase. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii [1], 828 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 346622

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Imperial Japanese Commission|The Louisiana Purchase

Amsden, Dora, with the assistance of John Stewart Happ

The Heritage of Hiroshige: A Glimpse at Japanese Landscape Art

San Francisco, Paul Elder and Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Compiled by Dora Amsden in collaboration with John Stewart Happer, and then illustrated with prints from the Happer Collection. Quite handsomely rebound in textured paper over spine, stamped lettering to cover and spine, and with lovely, textured endpapers front and rear. Interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked. Published in First Edition state by Paul Elder (1912), San Francisco. viii of frontis matter, and then 84 pp., including an index and full bibliography, plus 16 full-page monochrome illustrations, including at frontis, being "The Moonlit Saru Hashi" (Monkey Bridge). Printed at the Tomoye Press under the direction of John Swart, type hand-set by William Albert Johns, and the plates are quite lovely. Fore-edges being uncut, as each leaf has been folded and then loose edges bound in. Else and withal, quite a lovely item.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 344919

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Dora Amsden|John stewart Happar|The Happer Collection|prints|printmaking|Japan|Japanese art|Hiroshige|Japanese landscape art

Anonymous

Geisha Secrets: A Pillow Book for Lovers

New York, Carroll & Graf, 2000. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A rather unusual binding, being a tri-panel foldover book, black cloth over boards, gilt-stamped title, quite deep and sharp, clasped with a faux ivory tooth, illustrated at front over with half a face of a prototypical Japanese geisha. Interior is a short octavor softcover accordion-style introduction to the facts of formal tradition and ritual in the "Floating World" of Japanese culture and erotica. Something of a how-to manual for would-be geisha, describing training and demeanor, dress and makeup, and with plentiful erotica illustrations to boot.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 358590

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Geisha Japanese history Japanese culture pillow book erotica Japanese erotica

Stopes, Marie C. and Joji Sakurai

Plays of Old Japan: The 'No'

London, William Heinemann, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An unusual title from a world-renowned and quite controversial author, scarce in the trade at present. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Clean interior except for heavy toning to and light soiling of endpapers, dissipating. Some rubbing to extremities, tips, abrasions to paper label at spine, cracking of paper at joints, but hinges holding firm. Dealer stamp affixed neatly inside front flap at top, from the Ginza Prefecture of Yokohama. From the personal library of W.B. Chase, a music critic and editor at the New York Times and the New York Sun from 1896-1935, and a noted Japanophile and Sinologist, and with Chase's penciled inscription inside front flap. Particularly fine full color illustration at frontis, tissue-guarded. and six additional in black-and-white, also tissue-guarded. Laid in also is a folded article from the New York Herald Tribune from 1925, a review essay by Victor Keen, "A New York Artist Among the Japanese." The senior author, Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist by training and a tireless campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. At the marriage to her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, she opened her first birth control clinic in Britain and began to edit the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave frank, scandalously explicit practical advice about anatomy and physiology. Married Love (1918) was controversial and influential. She quite publicly opposed abortion, stumping instead for use of contraceptive methods. More troubling then and since was her support for eugenics. The organization founded to honor her work, the Marie Stopes International changed its name in 2020 to M.S.I. Preface by the British Ambassador to Japan Baron Kato. When her father passed away in 1902 it left her family in financial ruin, but her paleobotany professor at the time took her under his win and hired her as a research assist. She eventually secured a grant to "allow her to conduct her research into Mesozoic coal balls in Japan." She spent 18 months altogether in Japan at the Imperial University, Tokyo, and continued to explore the red coal mines on Hokkaido for fossilized plants. She published some Japanese experiences as a diary, called "Journal from Japan: a daily record of life as seen by a scientist," in 1910 (Wikipedia). vii [1], 2-102 [2] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355123

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Marie C. Stopes Noh Theater Noh Theatre Japanese history Japanese culture the performing arts

Hauge, Victor; Hauge, Takako

Folk Traditions in Japanese Art

Tokyo / New York, Kodansha, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in brown linen cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Minor abrasions to first free endpaper, former sticker shadow. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. [8], 9-231 pp. Special focus on Japanese folks traditions stretching mostly from 1600 to 1930 and that represent artistic masterpieces in textiles, ceraics, lacquerware, bambook objects, furniture and religious objects.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 347718

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Victor Hauge|Takako Hauge|Japanese art|Japanese culture|Japanese folk traditions|Japanese art history

Hayao, Ishimura

Robes of Elegance: Japanese Kimonos of the 16th-20th Centuries

Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1988. First English Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Kimonos and the textile arts and artists who make them and their importance to Japanese history and Japanese culture, with essays by Ishimura Hayao, Maruyama Nobuhiko, Yamanobe Tomoyuki. Texts in English, and sumptuously illustrated in full color.Bound in illustrated, square format, glossy wraps, in gate-fold, and with plentiful illustrations in black-and-white, sepia and full-color. Ninety color illustrations, translated by Haruko Ward. Seventy-three kosode and kosode screens augmented this wonderful exhibition, then also 17 20th-century kimonos. xv + 246 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349977

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Keywords: Kimonos|Japanese history|Japanese culture|textiles|Ishimura Hayao|Maruyama Nobuhiko|Yamanobe Tomoyuki

Huish, Marcus B.

Japan and Its Art

London, England / London, England / Shanghai, Hong, B.T. Batsford / The Fine Art Society / Kelly & Walsh , . Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Publication date not stated, but a stated Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Laid in is a pencil-written note, heavily toned, to the new owner, W.B. Chase, a music critic and editor at the New York Times and the New York Sun from 1896-1935, and a noted Japanophile and Sinologist, from a friend, maybe J.S. Bell?, and with Chase's penciled inscription inside front flap. Laid in also is a folded article from the New York Times Book Review and Magazine from August 12, 1923, by Marion Lucey, on the Noh Theatre of Japan. Bound handsomely in burgundy cloth, with rubbed gilt lettering to spine, bumping to spine head and foot, but sharper and more distinct gilt lettering and illustrations to front cover, quite fine. The author, a noted Japanophile, examines Japan's history, customs, culture, religion, and especially its art history. The second edition contained two new chapters on Pictorial Art and Ceramics, added three dozen new pages and another 33 illustrations and radically rewrote the first edition. This Third edition now includes 225 black-and-white illustrations. xvi [1], 1-273 pp., with publisher's ads following.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355120

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Japanese culture Japanese history Japanese art history Marcus B. Huish

Jones, Easley Stephen; Reiko Chiba; Reiko Chiba

A Lot of Three Hokusai-Themed Items: Hokusai's Views of Mt. Fuji, with Poems by Easley Stephen Joneshokusai; Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry, with Poems by Reiko Chiba; Down the Emperor's Road with Hiroshige, with Poems by Reiko Chiba

Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle, 1965. . Softcover. Size: Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall. Near gift-quality condition set of three Hokusai-themed items from Charles E. Tuttle of Rutland, Vermont. Three 32mo format items, measuring 5 3/4" x 3 3/4" wide and tall, respectively, and each housed in a simple illustrated cardboard slipcase, each with some rubbing to edges, extremities. The first item is Hokusai's Views of Mt. Fuji, with poems by Easley Stephen Jones, 1965, stated first edition, fine decorated silk linen cloth over boards, stab-bound spines, decorated endpapers front and rear. Introduction by Agnes L. Jacobs, and then full-color prints by Hokusai with facing Poems by Easley Stephen Jones. Cover Art by Hokusai, depicting Mt. Fuji. Unpaginated, but 53 images. The second item is Down the Emperor's Road With Hiroshige, with similar fine plates and facing poems by Reiko Chiba. 72 pp. and with Preface and Introduction, also decorated endpapers. Stated First Edition. Cover art by Hokusai depicting rural scene, pastoral, wooded mountain, rear panel at the foothills of Mt. Fuji. Third item is Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry, a stated fifteenth printing, 1965, and another 53 fine images. Similar illustrated silk linen over heavy card-stock, with same stab-bound spines, also in a Very Good condition slipcase. The illustrated silk linen covers depict scenes of traditional Japanese life including peasants and samurai, courtesans and retainers. The Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was an acknowledged master of ukiyo-e painting and printing, famous in the Edo period. He was best known for the series of woodblock prints known as Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. This series includes the internationally iconic print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa." This series brought him no little national, regional and even international fame. All in, a collectible item rich in history and fine artistry.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 358958

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Japanese art history Hiroshige Mt. Fuji Easley Stephen Jones Reiko Chiba Hokusai poetry

Kawaguchi, Yoko

Butterfly's Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 34 black-and-white images, a fine and scholarly work from an internationally renowned scholar. x + 342 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 345952

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: geisha|traditional Japanese culture|Western culture|Yoko Kawaguchi

Suzuki Kou

Toshishiki Zukai Shodo Shinan [Instruction Book for Calligraphy with Transparent Explanatory Instruction]

Tokyo, Japan, Matsumoto Akira, . Second Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Unique in the trade, there being currently no copies available on-line. Japanese-language calligraphy instruction guide bound in a fine brown softpaper, measuring 10 1/4" x 7 1/2" tall and wide, stab-bound, with kanji character paper label neatly affixed to front cover. Previous owner's note laid in (that of Mr. Robert Allen, noted bookseller and appraiser, from Altadena, California) suggests that the item was first printed and published in SHOWA 10 in 1935 and then the Second Edition in 1940. Publication date and edition not known. The author is Suzuki Kou, and it was sold and distributed by TOKOSHA. Plentiful black-and-white photographs and illustrations of Japanese men and women in traditional garb engaged in the arts of calligraphy, character by character, word by word, pictograph by pictograph, sentence by sentence, and with rice-paper tissue-guards over the suggested end-products. Gold-flecked decorated endpapers front and rear and examples in black and red throughout. Same title label affixed neatly to the cardboard folder, in Good condition, silk linen ties still affixed securely. At book's end are two fetching penned facsimile letters, the first dated Tokyo Feb. 12, 1934, "My Dearest Father, You will be glad to find that I am able to write a letter in English I think I have made good progress, haven't I? Kindly love to all. Your loving son, Masanobu." And then a more complicated business letter from S. Okada addressed to Messrs. E. King & Co., Kobe, regarding prices for French silks. Practice pamphlet laid in.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 357164

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Japanese language Suzuki Kou calligraphy instruction manual

Binyon, Laurence and J.J. O'Brien Sexton

Japanese Colour Prints

, Frederick Publications, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright paper dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but for a very short closed tear along front top edge, machine- but not price-clipped, both front and rear. Complete with an Index and Glossary. Illustrated with 46 black and white plates, as well as illustrations of Censor Seals, Table of Actors'Mon, A Selection of Yedo Publishers' Trade-Marks, A Selection of Yedo Publishers' Seals, and Artists' Signatures. Green cloth with gilt letters on the spine and pictorial silver onlays to the front and back covers. Frontis plate, xlv, two figures, xix-lii, liii-lvi, 3-236 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,

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Book number: 355111

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Japan Japanese history Japanese culture Japanese art history printmaking printmakers

Link, Howard A.

The Theatrical Prints of the Torii Masters: A Selection of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Ukiyo-E

Honolulu, Hawai'i, Honolulu Academy of Arts in association with Honolulu Printmakers, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in brown cloth with sharp and distinct dark brown lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Several score fine duotone reproductions of 18th-century Japan prints. [2], 1-119 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 345933

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Howard A. Link|18th century Japan|Ukiyo-e|prints|printmaking|Feudal Japan

Little, Frances

The Lady and Sada San: A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration

New York, The Century Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. An apparent First Edition, published in October of 1912, bound in publisher's light brown illustrated covers and still sharp and distinct black lettering. Quite lovely full color frontis with tissue guard. Decorated front cover containing a floral-heart abstraction over very light green cloth, deploying dark blue, pale blue, and gold and with lettering in dark blue; same device to spine, though heavily rubbed. Vertical creasing to spine, light bumping to spine head and foot, light soiling to covers, else quite bright of interior. 225 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355110

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Sada San Frances Little Japanese history Japanese culture Japan women's costumes women's wear

Mitsuya, Yasuno

Tsuwano

Tokyo, Japan, Iwasaki Shoten, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, bound in oblong format, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely bound in vanilla cloth, illustrated to front cover, Japanese characters to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond a bit of waviness and short loss of paper to rear board, not price-clipped. "Yasuno Mitsuya (1926.3.20 - 2020.12.24) born in Tsuwano-cho, Shimane Prefecture, Honshu, graduated from Yamaguchi Normal School Graduate School), is Japan's most famous picture book writer internationally. Science, mathematics, humanities, architecture, music, movies, combining art and science into a humorous visual game; 'I like to think differently since I was a child, I like to look at the telescope upside down, and the habit of "fantasy"': showing a keen imagination and meticulousness. His logical reasoning ability creates a combination of intellectuality and poetry, so that he can always use a humorous visual style to draw a painting game that may be incomprehensible on the plane, full of childlike 'Yanno style.' He also claimed to be a "fantasy criminal" and named his creative base 'Fantasy Study.' 'However, I like to discover new things, not to visit some historical sites.' In 1964, he carried US$800 to Europe, where he longed for, and in 1977, he launched his own landscape painting series, 'Journey of Picture Books'� (from the Min dot News web-site). 63 pp. Japanese text.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 351562

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Yasuno Mitsuya Japanese language