NIAN CHANG [NIEN TCH'ANG]:

Fo tsou li tai t'ong tsai. [In Japanese: Busso rekidai tsusai]. 18 volumes. Kyoto 1649.

. Complete in 18 volumes. With text in Japanese printed on double leaves folded in the oriental manner. As issued in original paper wrappers with title labels. Some wear and stain to covers. One volume has damage to front cover (slight loss of title label) and first 12 leaves torn with only marginal loss. A Japanese edition of a Chinese historical biography of Buddhist patriarchs.

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Book number: 35178

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, buddhism, religion, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

YANAGI CHIKAMATSU:

Sh›zoku Zushiki. (Clothes of the Japanese Imperial Court). Two volumes. [Kyoto] Tomikura Tahe Kanko, 1692.

. Lvs 32 + 31. With numerous illustrations throughout accompanied with descriptions in Japanese, woodblock-printed. As issued with double leaves folded in the Japanese manner. Original blue blind pressed paper wrappers, title labels, worn. An important study of the history of the Japanese court costumes including illustrations of robes, caps, hats, belts, swords, fans, shoes, etc. First edition.Provenance: Belonged to Tanak Chiyo (1906-99), a famous fashion designer. In addition a stamp of Nihon Daigaku Kenkyujo (Nihon University).

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Book number: 120483

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, costumes, clothes, design, travel, exploration

CHIKANOBU, YïSHó (HASHIMOTO):

"Jidai-Kagami". (Mirror of the Ages). Tokyo, Matsuki Heikichi, Meiji 29-30 (1896-7).

. Folio. Size: 24.8 x 17.8 cm. Leporello-folded album containing 53 pages. With fifty woodcut printed plates, decorated title, index and one additional woodcut page. Text in Japanese. Original silk covered boards, rubbed. Housed in modern cloth folder. Exceptionally beautiful work illustrating women's hairstyles and fashion from the 14th to the late 19th century. Each image depicts a woman with an impeccable hairstyle, make-up and elaborate clothes that are typical of the chosen period. At the top of each page is a picture showing fragments of well-known manuscripts, prints or paintings that are recognizable from each era. All signed Yôshû Chikanobu. The quality of the printing is outstanding. A detailed list of each image is available upon request.Chikanobu (1838-1912) was trained in the Kano school but later changed direction to printmaking. He became one of the leading ukiyo-e artists of his time. Chikanobu used the flat planes and decorative pattern of the ukiyo-e tradition for striking effect, adding luminous colours, especially red, purple, and blue to his compositions. He designed across all genres, from kabuki actors and beauties to military exploits of past and present. In the 1880s, with a new wave of nationalism evoking the past, new designs were created to explore traditional Japanese culture, ethics and heroes. Chikanobu is often called a retrograde modernist, someone whose art works are positioned between old and new. In these prints you can find the longing for the past but still they are unmistakably modern and of their time. Chikanobu creates an outstanding work of absolutely the highest print quality. Rare to find complete.

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Book number: 121268

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, Japan, japon, japanese, asia,asie, asien, asiatic, fashion, mode, woodcuts, illustrations, ukiyo-e, nishiki-e, XPU

B®CKSTRÖM, ANTON:

Ett besök i Japan och Kina jemte bilder från vägen dit öfver Goda-Hoppsudden, Bourbon, Nya Kaledonien, Manilla och Kokinkina. Stockholm 1871.

. Pp. viii, 391. With frontispiece, 8 tinted lithographs, 15 full page woodcut plates and many more illustrations in the text. Original pictorial red cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed, spine ends chipped. Publisher's stamp. First edition. Baeckström spent three years in the service of the French Navy and participated in this expedition to the Far East from April 1867 to February 1870. The voyage went via the Cape, Bourbon, New Caledonia, to Manilla, Cochinchina, Japan, China, and stopped in Singapore before it returned to Europe. References Japan on pages 177-340 (Nagasaki, Yokohama, Edo, Kamakura, Kobe, Osaka). Cordier BS 2132 & BJ 628. Löwendahl 1398.

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Book number: 777041

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, china, cochinchina, the philippines, japon, japanese, chine, cohinchine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, voyage, far east, east, eastern,

YOKOHAMA AMATEUR ROWING CLUB.

Aquatic Sports, Saturday 25th Aug., 1900. At 3 p.m. Yokohama, Japan Gazette Office, 1900.

. One folded leaf. Text printed in blue on pink paper. A programme with various tournaments and races.

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Book number: 120503

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, sport, yokohama,

YOKOHAMA YACHT CLUB.

Programme of Sailing Races, on the American National Holiday. Wednesday, July 4th, 1900. Yokohama, Japan Gazette Office, 1900.

. One folded leaf. Text printed in red and blue on light blue paper. Some staining.

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Book number: 120489

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, sport, yokohama, sailing, rowing,

CORNISH, VAUGHAN:

The travels of Ellen Cornish. Being the memoir of a pilgrim of science. London 1913.

. Wide 8vo. Pp. iii- xvi, 294, (2). With 4 maps or plans and 65 plates (of which many full page) from photographs by the author. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. A narrative written by Ellen Cornish's husband after her death. It deals with their travels to Japan (Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nikko); the Niagara Falls; the Panama Canal; and their visits to Jamaica. The principal object of the travels was to study the phenomena of surface waves of the atmosphere, hydroshpere, and lithosphere.

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Book number: 99017

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, japan, niagara, panama, jamaica, travel, trvales, voyage, explore, exploration, america, americana, central america

FLORENZ, KARL ADOLF (Transl.):

Japanische Dichtungen Weissaster. Ein romantisches Epos. Nebst anderen Gedichten. Zweite Auflage. Leipzig & Tokyo, Hasegawa, ca 1898.

. Large 8vo. (14.5 x 19.1 cm). A beautiful crêpe paper book comprising 48 leaves including covers, bound in the fukuro-toji style with silk ties, spine covered with silk. Original pictorial folder, worn and restored. (Old ownership signature on title). With lovely colour woodcut illustrations by Mishima Yunsoke and Arai Shujiro. Second German edition (first 1895), reprinted several times.

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Book number: 120639

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, iilustrated, crepe, literature, poems

FUJIKAWA, YU:

Geschichte der Medizin in Japan. Kurzgefasste Darstellung der Entwicklung der Japanischen Medizin mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Einführung der europäischen Heilkunde in Japan. Tokyo 1911.

. Pp (ii), 2, (2), 115, (3). With 4 plates including one portrait of C.P. Thunberg (copy of a copperplate by Shuyen Kondo in Nagoya in 1828) and many textual illustrations, mainly portraits of Japanese doctors and physicians. Original boards, cloth spine. A chronology of ancient and medieval medicine in Japan. Includes a good bibliography of Japanese medical works. Published by Kaiserlich-Japanischen Unterrichtsministerium. Garrison-Morton 6404.1.

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Book number: 16006

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, medicine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, exploration,

FUKUBA, TORU [Exhibition catalogue]:

Katalog öfver Fukuba's kollektion af ett hundra Ukiyo-ye-målningar. Stockholm, Bröderna Lagerström, 1911.

. Pp. xvii, (1) + 46 pages with illustrations (from photographs). Sewn as issued. Original decorated wrappers, wrappers. A collection of genre pictures by the most famous artists representing the Ukiyo-e school, exhibited under the name of Toru Fukuba at the Museum of Decorative Art in London in 1910. Some of the artists represented are Issho, Utamaro, Eizan, Kunisada, Hokusai and Hiroshige. The owner of the collection was Yojro Kuwabara. Includes a preface by him. Translated from the English by Gerda Fromell. Cf Cordier BJ 660 (French ed.).

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Book number: 14115

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, asia, asien, asiatic, asie, travel, exploration, art, woodcut, ukiyo-ye,

FURUYA, KÍRIN (Ed.):

Bijutsukai [Japanese design magazine]. Kyoto, Uns›d›, Meiji 34 (1901).

. Size: 24 x 16.4 cm. Lvs. (11), folded in the Japanese fashion, printed covers, silk ties. Small paper label on upper cover, printed number on rear cover. Some stain to covers, otherwise in very good condition. Comprises lovely woodcut prints of different designs, all rendered in delicate colours, two highlighted with metallic ink. Early copy of the monthly Japanese magazine, Bijutsukai edited by K›rin Furuya, the famous artist who helped to create a new modern style combining Japanese traditional style with European Art Nouveau.

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Book number: 121215

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, design, art, woodcut, illustrations, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, textiles, artefacts, konst,

FURUYA, KÖRIN:

Ky gi s shoku juroku-shiki zufu. (Sixteen traditional ceremonial decorations). Two volumes (Plates and Text). Ky›to, Ky›to Bijutsu Ky›kai, Meiji 36 (1903).

. Plate volume: Oblong folio (36.6 x 24.5 cm), orihon-bound. Pp. (ii), 27, (4). With eighteen hand-coloured woodblock illustrations of ancient ceremonial decorations, of which nine are double-page. Original silk-covered boards, rubbed, silk frayed at edges, title-label and old collection label pasted on front cover. Text by Inokuma Asamaro and woodblocks by Furuya Korin. First edition.A scarce album presenting traditional Japanese interiors published as a commemorative for members of the Kyoto Art Society. The beautiful images depict implements required for traditional Japanese activities, such as coming-of-age, sencha (green tea), a poetry contest, music, theatre and bonsai ceremonies, etc. The illustrations show details of decorative furnishing, costumes, lacquer ware, flowers, masks, instruments, etc. Together with the pamphlet including explanations for the plates.

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Book number: 121239

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, decoration, ceremonial, traditional, japan, japanese, japon, illustrated, woodblock, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, customs,

FURUYA, KïRIN & FUJI, RINDO:

Orimon Zukan [JAPANESE NEO-RINPA DESIGN] Four volumes. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 31 (1902).

. A complete set of a woodblock-printed pattern book richly illustrated with designs and patterns mostly in the Neo-Rinpa style. Comprises 84 leaves with numerous designs beautifully printed, mainly in light and pale colours. Bound in the traditional Japanese fashion. Original paper covers with title hand-written in ink on upper covers. The covers with some staining but internally in fine condition.Furuya Kôrin was the key figure in the development of the Neo-Rinpa style in Japan at this time. The modern design was a combination of the traditional Japanese style and the Art Nouveau ornamental design. Furuya Korin was specialised in creating original woodcuts for this kind of pattern books used in decorative art including textiles, metalwork, carvings and ceramics. Rare, only listed in two western institutions (Cambridge and Cincinnati).

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Book number: 120981

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, design, illustrated, asia, asien, asiatic, textile, decoration, ornament, neo-rinpa

FURUYA, KÍRIN:

Shi-mashima (Stripe Patterns). Two volumes. Kyôto, Yamada Noosabur›, Gômei Gaisha Uns›d›, Meiji 39 (1906).

. Complete set with more than two hundred colour woodblock patterns with Japanese captions. Comprises forty leaves with multiple images, title page and colophon. Leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. Ribbon-bound in original decorated paper wrappers, missing one binding string, title labels on upper covers. Ex-ownership stamp. Second edition, first 1904. The collection contains creative images with geometric patterns, many of which consist of figures and characters. Furuya K›rin, student of Kamisaka Sekka, was one of foremost designers to create the Japanese "modern design" in the first decade of the twentieth century. Published by Uns›d›, the reputable printing house in Kyoto. The covers are lightly rubbed, occasionally some minor staining but an attractive copy.

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Book number: 121412

Catalogue: Asia general

Keywords: Asia general, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, aisen, asiatic, illustrations, woodcut, patterns, design, stripes, neorinpa,

GESSAI, FUKUI (Ed.):

Chuko Shomeika Gafu (Picture Book of Medieval Masters). Osaka, Aoki K›zand›, ca 1890-1900.

. A collection of six double page exquisite coloured woodblock prints (size: 21 x 53 cm) after paintings by Matsumura Goshun, Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa Rosetsu and other celebrated artists. The prints are all in mint condition and depict birds, flowers, etc. Each with printed signature, seal and number. Housed in the original paper envelope with coloured decoration and text printed in black (with some tears). This set is included in a series of works by great masters reproduced and edited by Fukui Gessai.

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Book number: 120636

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, illustrated, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, woodcuts, illustrations,