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![Kaburagi Kiyokata & Miyagawa Haru?, [Boken Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Sugoroku10639.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Boken Sugoroku].
Shonenkai 1906 (Meiji 39). Colour broadside 47x63cm. Folded as issued, rather good.
¶ Don't be fooled by the elegant and delicate artwork. This new year gift from the boy's magazine Shonenkai is filled with adventure, peril and slaughter. Nothing with fur, fin or feather - if large enough - is safe from these boys on their jaunt round the world. When they aren't shooting eagles they are clubbing seals. No artist is named but a 2016 exhibition at the Shinjuku Historical Museum attributed this game to Kaburagi and Miyagawa.
¶ Don't be fooled by the elegant and delicate artwork. This new year gift from the boy's magazine Shonenkai is filled with adventure, peril and slaughter. Nothing with fur, fin or feather - if large enough - is safe from these boys on their jaunt round the world. When they aren't shooting eagles they are clubbing seals. No artist is named but a 2016 exhibition at the Shinjuku Historical Museum attributed this game to Kaburagi and Miyagawa.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10639
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 183.75 US$ 199.33 | £UK 156.5 | JP¥ 31366]
Keywords: paper games pastimes illustration cartoons manga sugoroku c20th Japan modernism graphic Asia travel hunting meiji
![Hashizume, Kan'ichi (publisher)., [Doban : Shogaku Nyumon : Chirishoho].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Shogaku11054.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Doban : Shogaku Nyumon : Chirishoho].
Tokyo, Hashizume 1875 (Meiji 8). 11x8cm publisher's wrapper with title label; 22 double leaves (44pp), illustrations thoughout. An outstanding copy in the original printed outer wrapper (fukuro).
¶ Another charming little version of this introduction to elementary school studies, this time engraved (Doban in the title means engraved) and devoted to geography. There are quite a few versions of Shogaku Nyumon under different titles, varying in subject, charm, interest and form. I've traced mention of another Hashizume Shogaku title but not this one.
¶ Another charming little version of this introduction to elementary school studies, this time engraved (Doban in the title means engraved) and devoted to geography. There are quite a few versions of Shogaku Nyumon under different titles, varying in subject, charm, interest and form. I've traced mention of another Hashizume Shogaku title but not this one.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11054
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.5 US$ 132.88 | £UK 104.5 | JP¥ 20910]
Keywords: social sciences history colour theory c19th Japan education children juvenile progess science meiji geography
![Hashizume, Kan'ichi (publisher)., [Doban : Shogaku Nyumon : Chirishoho].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Shogaku11086.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Doban : Shogaku Nyumon : Chirishoho].
Tokyo, Hashizume 1875 (Meiji 8). 11x8cm publisher's wrapper with title label; 22 double leaves (44pp), illustrations thoughout. An outstanding copy in the original printed outer wrapper (fukuro).
¶ A charming little version of this introduction to elementary school studies, this time engraved (Doban in the title means engraved) and devoted to geography. There are quite a few versions of Shogaku Nyumon under different titles, varying in subject, charm, interest and form. I've traced mention of another Hashizume Shogaku title but not this one.
¶ A charming little version of this introduction to elementary school studies, this time engraved (Doban in the title means engraved) and devoted to geography. There are quite a few versions of Shogaku Nyumon under different titles, varying in subject, charm, interest and form. I've traced mention of another Hashizume Shogaku title but not this one.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11086
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 183.75 US$ 199.33 | £UK 156.5 | JP¥ 31366]
Keywords: social sciences history c19th Japan education children juvenile progess science meiji geography
![HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel., The Blithedale Romance. [bound with] The Snow-Image, and Other Tales.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Hawthorne8246.jpg "Click to enlarge")
The Blithedale Romance. [bound with] The Snow-Image, and Other Tales.
London, Chapman & Hall 1854 and Bohn 1851. Octavo, the two together in contemporary half gilt morocco (a bit rubbed). Quite good and fresh.
¶ Second English edition of the Blithedale Romance; first edition of The Snow-Image - though the American edition, dated the next year, was issued at much the same time as this London printing.
¶ Second English edition of the Blithedale Romance; first edition of The Snow-Image - though the American edition, dated the next year, was issued at much the same time as this London printing.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8246
AUD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 US$ 39.87 | £UK 31.5 | JP¥ 6273]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th America
![HAZELTON, Harry., The Trail of Blood. A tale of New York. [bound with] Life Among the Red Indians. An Indian Romance.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Hazelton8761.jpg "Click to enlarge")
The Trail of Blood. A tale of New York. [bound with] Life Among the Red Indians. An Indian Romance.
Glasgow, John S. Marr & Sons [c1870?]. Two volumes octavo together in contemporary quarter straight grain calf and cloth; 115 & 127pp. Some light browning but rather good.
¶ Rare Glasgow editions of rare enough dime novels; John S. Marr & Sons published cheap popular stuff between about 1865 and 1885. The more interesting is of course 'The Trail of Blood'. Worldcat lists a New York published edition copyrighted 1866 but can't find a copy in any library. Neither can I in any of the expected libraries. This Glasgow edition is is held by the Scottish National Library, who date it 1867, and the Library of Congress who are more circumspect dating it between 1866 and 1877. Cambridge University has a John S Marr printing of another Hazelton title (they date 1867) and tells us George Savage wrote as Harry Hazelton but surely no-one called George Savage would change that name to write cheap thrillers. Harry Hazelton was a Beadle house name usually applied to westerns and wilderness titles; it's a surprise to find it on a contemporary tale of turmoil, intrigue and murder set among the well to do of New York.
¶ Rare Glasgow editions of rare enough dime novels; John S. Marr & Sons published cheap popular stuff between about 1865 and 1885. The more interesting is of course 'The Trail of Blood'. Worldcat lists a New York published edition copyrighted 1866 but can't find a copy in any library. Neither can I in any of the expected libraries. This Glasgow edition is is held by the Scottish National Library, who date it 1867, and the Library of Congress who are more circumspect dating it between 1866 and 1877. Cambridge University has a John S Marr printing of another Hazelton title (they date 1867) and tells us George Savage wrote as Harry Hazelton but surely no-one called George Savage would change that name to write cheap thrillers. Harry Hazelton was a Beadle house name usually applied to westerns and wilderness titles; it's a surprise to find it on a contemporary tale of turmoil, intrigue and murder set among the well to do of New York.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8761
AUD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 153.25 US$ 166.1 | £UK 130.5 | JP¥ 26138]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers c19th America mystery detective New York
The Seven Christians Of Championdom - A Tale of the Times.
Written, and published for and by The Author, Sydney ... 1885. 26x21cm original half cloth & marbled boards with gilt on black title label (wear to tips and edges, label quite rubbed); 152pp. Printed from handwriting by some kind of duplication or autolithography. Bookplate recording its gift from John Lane Mullins to St Sophia's Library.
¶ Singular, eccentric ... all the usual labels apply to this distopian, or at least satirical, romance of the city of Yendis, capital of Champiana. Daniel Healey might be better known as author Whaks Li Kell but it's unlikely. That's the painful pseudonym he used for his other known book, 'The Cornstalk, his habits and habitats' (1893), in which his target expanded from Sydney to the colony of New South Wales. This did receive a cruel notice in The Bulletin (August 1 1885) but it was written with a hand as heavy on the wit lever as Healey's by someone who would rather be cute than intelligible. It's hard to figure out exactly what the reviewer is mocking. Elsewhere I find a Daniel Healey was an unsuccessful independent candidate for the inner city seat of Sydney-Cook in 1898 and an unsuccessful Labor (possibly) candidate for Sydney-Bligh in 1901 - which sounds like our author - but there were a lot of Daniel Healeys. How many copies of this were produced is unknown but I'd suggest the four copies found by Trove plus this one must be a noticeable percentage. The only copy I've found sold in recent decades was this same copy.
¶ Singular, eccentric ... all the usual labels apply to this distopian, or at least satirical, romance of the city of Yendis, capital of Champiana. Daniel Healey might be better known as author Whaks Li Kell but it's unlikely. That's the painful pseudonym he used for his other known book, 'The Cornstalk, his habits and habitats' (1893), in which his target expanded from Sydney to the colony of New South Wales. This did receive a cruel notice in The Bulletin (August 1 1885) but it was written with a hand as heavy on the wit lever as Healey's by someone who would rather be cute than intelligible. It's hard to figure out exactly what the reviewer is mocking. Elsewhere I find a Daniel Healey was an unsuccessful independent candidate for the inner city seat of Sydney-Cook in 1898 and an unsuccessful Labor (possibly) candidate for Sydney-Bligh in 1901 - which sounds like our author - but there were a lot of Daniel Healeys. How many copies of this were produced is unknown but I'd suggest the four copies found by Trove plus this one must be a noticeable percentage. The only copy I've found sold in recent decades was this same copy.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10970
AUD 1200.00 [Appr.: EURO 734.75 US$ 797.3 | £UK 626 | JP¥ 125463]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th Australia utopia dystopia thrillers
![Jonathan Swift & Katayama Heisaburo., [Garibarusu Shimameguri].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Swift10976.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Garibarusu Shimameguri].
Tokyo, Inada Sahei 1887 (Meiji 20). 19x13cm publisher's cloth backed illustrated boards; seven lithograph plates. A dash of each of the many flaws these flimsy books are liable to: some insect nibbling of the spine and back cover, browning of the paper, a few leaves a bit proud of the front edge (not a sprung signature since these books don't have signatures). The inner front hinge was taped at some time but it's not clear why: it hasn't separated. Not a great copy but by no means a bad copy, not even an average copy of one of these board books.
¶ Second edition of the first translation of Gulliver's Travels, or the important bit of it. These adventures in Lilliput appeared in a Japanese version in 1880 with the vague promise of the next part. The second, the Brobdingnagian, came from a different translater in 1887, some six or seven months after this second edition of the first book. I don't think anything like a complete Gulliver appeared for a fair while after that, so the Japanese audience had to wait decades to read about Gulliver's trip to Japan. The illustrations here are copied from Thomas Morten's which first appeared in a Cassell edition in 1866. Yoko Inagi's 2014 well meaning if over egged thesis (The Evolution of Japanese Utopianism and How Akutagawa’s Dystopian Novella, Kappa ...) makes the point that Gulliver's Travels along with More's Utopia began life in Japan as political novels rather than fantastic adventures or satires. Gulliver followed much the same arc in Japan as it had in the west and by the 1920s was a children's book. This is a 'ball cover' (boru hyoshi, apparently a corruption of 'board') book - a signal of modernity and the Japanese equivalent of a yellowback: flimsy western style bindings with lithograph covers that rarely survive in such good shape. I traced no copies of either edition of this outside Japan.
¶ Second edition of the first translation of Gulliver's Travels, or the important bit of it. These adventures in Lilliput appeared in a Japanese version in 1880 with the vague promise of the next part. The second, the Brobdingnagian, came from a different translater in 1887, some six or seven months after this second edition of the first book. I don't think anything like a complete Gulliver appeared for a fair while after that, so the Japanese audience had to wait decades to read about Gulliver's trip to Japan. The illustrations here are copied from Thomas Morten's which first appeared in a Cassell edition in 1866. Yoko Inagi's 2014 well meaning if over egged thesis (The Evolution of Japanese Utopianism and How Akutagawa’s Dystopian Novella, Kappa ...) makes the point that Gulliver's Travels along with More's Utopia began life in Japan as political novels rather than fantastic adventures or satires. Gulliver followed much the same arc in Japan as it had in the west and by the 1920s was a children's book. This is a 'ball cover' (boru hyoshi, apparently a corruption of 'board') book - a signal of modernity and the Japanese equivalent of a yellowback: flimsy western style bindings with lithograph covers that rarely survive in such good shape. I traced no copies of either edition of this outside Japan.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10976
AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 459.25 US$ 498.31 | £UK 391.25 | JP¥ 78414]
Keywords: literature fiction c18th England c19th Japan translation meiji
![Henry James Black. (Burakku Kairakutei). Du Boisgobey, Fortune., [Shachu no dokubari : Tantei shosetsu].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Black11031.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shachu no dokubari : Tantei shosetsu].
Tokyo, Okawa 1891 (Meiji 24). 220x145mm, without original wrapper in a later but old light card wrapper lettered by hand; 190,[4 advert]pp; 11 double page illustrations. Brushed inscription over the colophon page, certainly read, natural browning of the paper but a respectable enough and solid copy.
¶ A detective story told as a serial to an audience by a gay Australian who became a professional Japanese story teller and actor, taken down in shorthand and published as this book. Black was born in Adelaide and arrived in Japan in 1865 at the age of almost seven - his father, up until now a singer, had bought into the Japan Herald. Henry seems to have grown into something of a no-hoper in the eyes of some of his family at least and rather than settle to respectable work became first a proponent of progressive reform, like his father, then a professional rakugoka - story teller - and even a kabuki actor playing women. His reaction to his siblings' disapproval was to change his name to Burakku Kairakutei (Pleasure Black), marry a Japanese woman and become a Japanese citizen. Ian McArthur, Black's biographer, quotes from a police report made at this time that he was living in "virtually a husband and wife relationship" with a young Japanese man but otherwise there was nothing untoward to worry about. At the height of his fame - 1891 and 92 - maybe six or seven of these stenographic novels were published and other stories appeared in newspapers. It's a bit hard to unravel as a couple appeared more than once with different titles. Even the concise and acerbic Edogawa Rampo gets muddled and misled trying to work out a bibliography at the end of his 1951 essay translated as 'Fingerprint Novels of the Meiji Era'. He cites another essayist who wrote on Black and said he had five of his books, Rampo had only three. This handful of detective stories or thrillers was bracketed by two translations or adaptations of novels: Mrs Braddon's Flower and Weed in 1886 and Dickens' Oliver Twist in 1895. Of the thrillers from these two boom years, two are known to be adapted from stories by Mrs Braddon and one - this one - from a story by Fortune du Boisgobey. Boisgobey's 'Crime de l'Omnibus' appeared in 1881 but Black was much more likely to work from a cheap English translation published in New York in 1882 or by Vizetelly in 1885 - titled 'The Mystery of an Omnibus' and 'An Omnibus Mystery' respectively. I like Black's title better which translates more or less as The Poisoned Needle in the Coach. These stenographic books - sokkibon - were hugely popular, distributed largely through lending libraries and have a pitiful survival rate. They are credited with playing a large part in transforming Japanese literature from the classical and formal to colloquial. This is not the board cover edition, it is printed from what looks to be the same setting on larger, coarser paper with added running titles and was undoubtedly issued in wrappers. The colophon says that it was reprinted on the same day (October 19) as the original which could, I guess, be true. Worldcat, when nudged, finds two entries - both the board edition - the NDL in Japan and the NLA in Australia.
¶ A detective story told as a serial to an audience by a gay Australian who became a professional Japanese story teller and actor, taken down in shorthand and published as this book. Black was born in Adelaide and arrived in Japan in 1865 at the age of almost seven - his father, up until now a singer, had bought into the Japan Herald. Henry seems to have grown into something of a no-hoper in the eyes of some of his family at least and rather than settle to respectable work became first a proponent of progressive reform, like his father, then a professional rakugoka - story teller - and even a kabuki actor playing women. His reaction to his siblings' disapproval was to change his name to Burakku Kairakutei (Pleasure Black), marry a Japanese woman and become a Japanese citizen. Ian McArthur, Black's biographer, quotes from a police report made at this time that he was living in "virtually a husband and wife relationship" with a young Japanese man but otherwise there was nothing untoward to worry about. At the height of his fame - 1891 and 92 - maybe six or seven of these stenographic novels were published and other stories appeared in newspapers. It's a bit hard to unravel as a couple appeared more than once with different titles. Even the concise and acerbic Edogawa Rampo gets muddled and misled trying to work out a bibliography at the end of his 1951 essay translated as 'Fingerprint Novels of the Meiji Era'. He cites another essayist who wrote on Black and said he had five of his books, Rampo had only three. This handful of detective stories or thrillers was bracketed by two translations or adaptations of novels: Mrs Braddon's Flower and Weed in 1886 and Dickens' Oliver Twist in 1895. Of the thrillers from these two boom years, two are known to be adapted from stories by Mrs Braddon and one - this one - from a story by Fortune du Boisgobey. Boisgobey's 'Crime de l'Omnibus' appeared in 1881 but Black was much more likely to work from a cheap English translation published in New York in 1882 or by Vizetelly in 1885 - titled 'The Mystery of an Omnibus' and 'An Omnibus Mystery' respectively. I like Black's title better which translates more or less as The Poisoned Needle in the Coach. These stenographic books - sokkibon - were hugely popular, distributed largely through lending libraries and have a pitiful survival rate. They are credited with playing a large part in transforming Japanese literature from the classical and formal to colloquial. This is not the board cover edition, it is printed from what looks to be the same setting on larger, coarser paper with added running titles and was undoubtedly issued in wrappers. The colophon says that it was reprinted on the same day (October 19) as the original which could, I guess, be true. Worldcat, when nudged, finds two entries - both the board edition - the NDL in Japan and the NLA in Australia.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11031
AUD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 398 US$ 431.87 | £UK 339.25 | JP¥ 67959]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers detective mystery c19th Australia Japan France
Oriental Lacquer. Art and Technique.
Thames & Hudson 1962. thick quarto publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; 515pp, 324 plates, (104 tipped colour), other illustrations & map.
¶ The standard work, the annotated plates are followed by an essay on interpretation, illustrated dictionary of techniques, index of Japanese lacquermasters, a note on names by Speiser, bibliography and chronology.
¶ The standard work, the annotated plates are followed by an essay on interpretation, illustrated dictionary of techniques, index of Japanese lacquermasters, a note on names by Speiser, bibliography and chronology.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 1891
AUD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 61.25 US$ 66.44 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10455]
Keywords: art applied arts Asia japan china lacquer inro decoration asia
![Tanaka Higara., [Shojo Supotsu Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Tanaka10502.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shojo Supotsu Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Shojo Kurabu 1927 (Taisho 16). Colour broadsheet 54x79. A rather good copy. On the back are photographs and details of heroines of Japanese sport printed in blue.
¶ Stylish indeed but not printed on the best paper, this sugoroku is hard to find still in one piece. This was the new year gift from the girl's magazine Shojo Kurabu - Girl's Club. There are not so many sugoroku in which girls get to be unashamedly athletic and competitive.
¶ Stylish indeed but not printed on the best paper, this sugoroku is hard to find still in one piece. This was the new year gift from the girl's magazine Shojo Kurabu - Girl's Club. There are not so many sugoroku in which girls get to be unashamedly athletic and competitive.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10502
AUD 425.00 [Appr.: EURO 260.25 US$ 282.38 | £UK 221.75 | JP¥ 44435]
Keywords: paper games pastimes illustration cartoons manga sugoroku c20th Japan modernism graphic art progress sport women feminism reform
![HIGGINSON, S.J. [Sarah Jane Hatfield Higginson]., A Princess of Java. A tale of the far east.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Higginson9223.jpg "Click to enlarge")
A Princess of Java. A tale of the far east.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1887. Octavo publisher's printed pattern cloth with paper labels (spine tips a bit chipped).
¶ First edition of this sometimes thrilling romance, or sometimes romantic thriller. I can't decide whether Mrs Higginson ever visited Java. This begins more like a travelogue - and she wrote a travel book for children about Java a few years later - than a novel and it's the surfeit of local colour and language that makes me wonder whether it all comes out of Raffles. There is a strong streak of feminism. Our heroine princess, infected by association with western women, rejects docile subjection to her arranged marriage and other distasteful traditions but the extraordinary culmination of this book is the celebration of not one but two interracial marriages. Admittedly the duskier half of each couple is the princess and a handsome young prince and the unions eventuate with some fairy tale inevitability. But the ordeals and dangers, the adventures of the heroines (there are three) are directed by their conflict with the cultural and racist demands of their parents. In the end it's Mrs Higginson's brave appreciation of and close attention to the beauty of the Javanese that lends me to believe she spent time there; more than her cavalcade of murderous amok, Guwa Upas - Valley of Poison - and ular lanang, a king cobra that blows gusts of poison.
¶ First edition of this sometimes thrilling romance, or sometimes romantic thriller. I can't decide whether Mrs Higginson ever visited Java. This begins more like a travelogue - and she wrote a travel book for children about Java a few years later - than a novel and it's the surfeit of local colour and language that makes me wonder whether it all comes out of Raffles. There is a strong streak of feminism. Our heroine princess, infected by association with western women, rejects docile subjection to her arranged marriage and other distasteful traditions but the extraordinary culmination of this book is the celebration of not one but two interracial marriages. Admittedly the duskier half of each couple is the princess and a handsome young prince and the unions eventuate with some fairy tale inevitability. But the ordeals and dangers, the adventures of the heroines (there are three) are directed by their conflict with the cultural and racist demands of their parents. In the end it's Mrs Higginson's brave appreciation of and close attention to the beauty of the Javanese that lends me to believe she spent time there; more than her cavalcade of murderous amok, Guwa Upas - Valley of Poison - and ular lanang, a king cobra that blows gusts of poison.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9223
AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 107.25 US$ 116.27 | £UK 91.5 | JP¥ 18297]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th Indonesia Java south east Asia America thrillers race feminism racism
Looking Forward. Mass education through publicity.
London, Nisbet 1920. Octavo; [10],183pp. Some browning or spotting towards each end. A fetching copy in a luxurious Zaehnsdorf binding of green straight grain calf, spine elaborately gilt with red labels and small red onlays in each panel.
¶ Higham's own copy, specially bound for him. I wasn't certain of this until recently when I came across another of his books in an identical binding. A pioneering bit of brave new world stuff; frightening for the enthusiasm with which governments have embraced Higham's messages of advertising for political purpose - the common good. The possibilities Higham outlines for the cinema are now more fully realised with television and some of his proposals now seem naive (as do the possibly disingenuous declarations of trustworthy government) but the embryo of current thought is well formed here and was being developed speedily - passages from this book are in the papers of General Ffoulkes, copied while he was Director of Irish Propaganda during the Anglo-Irish war of 1921.
¶ Higham's own copy, specially bound for him. I wasn't certain of this until recently when I came across another of his books in an identical binding. A pioneering bit of brave new world stuff; frightening for the enthusiasm with which governments have embraced Higham's messages of advertising for political purpose - the common good. The possibilities Higham outlines for the cinema are now more fully realised with television and some of his proposals now seem naive (as do the possibly disingenuous declarations of trustworthy government) but the embryo of current thought is well formed here and was being developed speedily - passages from this book are in the papers of General Ffoulkes, copied while he was Director of Irish Propaganda during the Anglo-Irish war of 1921.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7288
AUD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 214.5 US$ 232.55 | £UK 182.75 | JP¥ 36593]
Keywords: social sciences advertising government c20th propaganda graphic
![Hikifuda., [Gakuyohin ...].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Hikifuda10941.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Gakuyohin ...].
np [191-?]. Colour lithograph 26x38cm. A nice copy.
¶ Presumably this hallucinatory hikifuda dates from around the first world war. At first I feared that the 'clay' of 'clay pigeons' had been lost in translation but these dopey looking young soldiers are concentrating rather than thick or stoned. The young men and animals of Japan are prepared. Hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with the text panel blank. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed, so the same image might sell fine silk or soy sauce. Here, I believe, the products on offer are school supplies.
¶ Presumably this hallucinatory hikifuda dates from around the first world war. At first I feared that the 'clay' of 'clay pigeons' had been lost in translation but these dopey looking young soldiers are concentrating rather than thick or stoned. The young men and animals of Japan are prepared. Hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with the text panel blank. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed, so the same image might sell fine silk or soy sauce. Here, I believe, the products on offer are school supplies.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10941
AUD 135.00 [Appr.: EURO 82.75 US$ 89.7 | £UK 70.5 | JP¥ 14115]
Keywords: graphic commercial art advertising c20th Japan hikifuda trade catalogues modernism military meiji
![Hikifuda., [Goto Shokai].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Hikifuda10761.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Goto Shokai].
n.p. [c1900] 26x38cm colour woodcut. Small knick from a top corner; a nice copy.
¶ Bustling modern Japan is celebrated in this advertisement for the Japanese and western liquor merchants Goto Shokai. I presume it's the trademarks of the brands they handle that are displayed. These hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with the text panel blank. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed, so the same image might sell fine silk or soy sauce.
¶ Bustling modern Japan is celebrated in this advertisement for the Japanese and western liquor merchants Goto Shokai. I presume it's the trademarks of the brands they handle that are displayed. These hikifuda - small posters or handbills - were usually produced with the text panel blank. The customer, usually a retailer, had their own details over printed, so the same image might sell fine silk or soy sauce.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10761
AUD 135.00 [Appr.: EURO 82.75 US$ 89.7 | £UK 70.5 | JP¥ 14115]
Keywords: graphic commercial art advertising Japan alcohol drink food modernism progress hikifuda transport
Hikifuda of a ship bedecked with flags with fireworks overhead
n.p.[190-?]. Colour woodcut 37x26cm. A small blotch in the upper right side, a nice copy.
¶ An undeciphered by me hikifuda - large handbill or small poster - featuring some nautical celebration.
¶ An undeciphered by me hikifuda - large handbill or small poster - featuring some nautical celebration.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10340
AUD 185.00 [Appr.: EURO 113.5 US$ 122.92 | £UK 96.5 | JP¥ 19342]
Keywords: graphic art advertising hikifuda Japan c20th modernism nautical maritime ships
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