[NONOMURA, CHUBE / OGATA, KÍRIN]:

Ehon K›rin (K›rin Patterns). Three volumes (complete). Ky›to, Suma Kanbe, early 19th century (ca 1800-30).

. An album (24.3 x 17.7 cm) containing 95 b/w woodblock-printed designs of plants and animals in the "K›rin style". Lvs 16; 16; 17, double folded in the Japanese fashion. Includes two prefaces and one colophon. Ex-ownership red stamps. Text in Japanese. Original wrappers, with some minor wear, printed paper labels on covers. Housed in cloth slipcase. We believe this sketch book is a reproduction of a work titled "K›rin Ehon Michi Shirube" by the artist Nonomura Chube published in 1735. Nonomura issued several design manuals (edehon) influenced by the Rinpa school master Ogata K›rin (1658-1716). The Rinpa is a style within Japanese art based on nature which was developed during the 17th century. The typical K›rin patterns are characterised by simplified forms with prominent and smooth outlines. A well-preserved album with charming designs of animals, insects, flowers and plants.

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Book number: 121081

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, illustrated, woodblock, designs, patterns, manual, rinpa,

[KABUKI].

Programme of Entertainment in Honour of H.I.H. Prince Pu Lun. Given by Baron S. Goto at the Kabukiza on December 11th, 1907. Tokyo 1907.

. Tall 8vo (15 x 22,5 cm). Pp. 28 bound in the fukuro-toji style, and two colour woodcut prints highlighted with gold. Text in English, Japanese and Chinese. Original coloured pictorial wrappers highlighted, silk ties. A very attractive programme of a Kabuki play "The Battle of Yashima". The play was arranged in connection with a visit by Prince Pu Lun, the nephew of the Chinese emperor and heir to the throne at the time. Count Got› Shinpei (1857-1929) was a prominent Japanese statesman and cabinet minister. A rare survival in lovely condition.

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Book number: 120266

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, theatre, theater, travel, exploration, illustration, woodcut, kabuki,

[NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA / MENUS].

Six woodblock-printed cruise ship menus for the Nippon Yusen Company]. Harozaki Maru and Taiyo Maru, July and August 1936.

. Six dinner menus wrapped in beautiful decorated paper covers for the two ships Harozaki Maru and Taiyo Maru, ocean liners owned by the Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK). Size of covers: ca 13.5 x 19 cm. Text in English. The wrappers are beautifully printed in vivid colours depicting Enryakuji Temple, a Kago (palanquin), Mount Fuji, Kegon Fall, a Maru vessel, and a couple of ducks. The contents of the menus would have been printed on board the ships, only the wrappers being woodblock-printed ashore before departure.

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Book number: 121284

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, shipping, travel, exploration, cruise, cruising, menu,

[HAIBARA / HANDMADE JAPANESE FANS].

[Two hand-painted round fans (uchiwa) in original woodblock-printed covers]. Tokyo, Haibara Naojiro, ca 1890.

. A beautiful and well-preserved pair of round hand fans painted in ink, colour and gofun on paper with handles of lacquer decorated with gold, and silk tasselled cords. The fans are decorated in rinpa style with a landscape scene and flowers, on the reverse one has a view of Mount Fuji and the other a bamboo scene highlighted with gold. One fan has one small chip at edge and a few tiny paper losses, the other is in fine condition. Size: 23.8 x 23 cm, length including handles 36 cm. Mounted in the original paper folders woodblock-printed in colours.Haibara, established in 1806, is one of Japan's oldest paper merchants and still operating in Nihonbashi in Tokyo. During the Edo period Haibara became famous for the decorated round fans (uchiwa) produced as a typical souvenir at that time. The third owner, Haibara Naojiro (1846-1910), worked close to artists like Shibata Zeshin, Kawanabe Kyosai and Kawabata Gyokusho who created the original designs for Haibara's products. A delightful pair of these handmade fans.

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Book number: 120961

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, art, fan, fans, handmade, handpainted, uchiwa,

KUBOTA BEISEN (Ed.):

Bijutsu H›ko (The Art Treasury). Eleven volumes. Tokyo, Matsui Eikichi, Gahakudo,1895.

. A complete set of this early refined Japanese art magazine. Size: 26 x 16 cm. With high-quality woodblock printed reproductions of ukiyo-e prints and paintings by famous artists such as Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusai, Shibata Zeshin, Sakai Hoitsu, Ogata Korin, Mauyama Okyo, Kawanabe Kyosai, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, etc. Includes several folded prints of hashira-e (long and narrow pillar prints), nagaban (large print) and long surimono (exclusive prints for special occasions). Printed in lovely rich colours several highlighted with lacquer and mica. Bound in the traditional Japanese fashion, as issued within coloured decorated wrappers. A few volumes loose in binding and one volume has a few leaves affected by a small marginal wormhole, otherwise in splendid condition. Housed in a modern cloth folder. The editor Kubota Beisen was a renowned Japanese artist and art instructor. He founded the Kyoto Fine Art Association together with Kono Bairei. A stunning collection which seems extremely rare to find complete.

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Book number: 121008

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, art, illustrated, woodblock-prints, ukiyo-e, woodcut, paintings

JAPANESE PAPER FANS].

[Three ukiyo-e woodblock-printed paper fans depicting kabuki actors and one with three ladies in Western clothing]. Published by Murakawa Soemon in Tokyo. 1888, 1892 and 1893.

. 1. Fan depicting three ladies in Western clothing standing on a balcony under the moonlight. One is playing the "gekkin" (full moon guitar). It is printed by Yoshu Chikanobu, dated Meiji 21 (1888).2. Fan depicting three kabuki actors: Bando kakitsu, Ichikawa Kuzo and Nakamura (?). Printed by Toyohara Kunichika, dated Meiji 25 (1892).3. Fan of two kabuki actors: Nakamura Fukusuke and Onoe Kikugoro. Printed by Toyohara Kunichika, dated Meiji 26 (1893).

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Book number: 121149

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japoan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, kabuki, theater, theatre, ukiyoe, fans

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, 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,

GONZALO JIMÉNEZ DE LA ESPADA (Transl.) / HASEGAWA,TAKEJIRÍ (Ed.):

Leyendas y Narraciones Japonesas. [A Collection of Japanese Fairy Tales in Spanish]. Ten volumes. Tokyo, Hasegawa, Taisho 3 (1914).

. A remarkably well-preserved crêpe paper book collection of Japanese fairy tales translated into Spanish. Hasegawa published two Spanish sets each of ten volumes. This set titled "Leyendas y Narraciones Japonesas" contains following works: 1. La Boda De los Ratones; 2. La Sierpe de Ocho Cabezas; 3. La Liebre de Inaba; 4. El Espejo de Matsuyama; 5. La Medusa Candida; 6. El Principe Brillante; 7. La Olla Mâgica; 8. Sippeitaro; 9. El Brazo del Ogro; 10. La Cascada Maravillosa.Small 18mo (15.2 x 10.3 cm). Fukuro-toji bound, spine covered, silk ties. Each book contains about 9 -11 lvs including covers. Beautifully illustrated with woodcuts throughout. As issued, kept in its original paper box, original tissue wraps preserved (two sets). A rare set, unique in mint condition (first volume has a very light mark from a paper band holding the books together). Takejir› Hasegawa (1853-1938) was a Tokyo-based publisher who specialised in Japanese books translated into European languages. He employed renowned foreign residents as translators and noted Japanese artists as illustrators. Gonzalo Jiménez de la Espada (1874-1938), a Spanish orientalist and teacher who resided in Tokyo between 1907 and 1917.

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Book number: 121225

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, fairy tales, spanish, spain, stories, woodcut, crepe paper, illustrated, illustrations

KAWARASAKI KïDï:

Shiko Moyô Hyakudai (Hundred designs of the four seasons). . Four volumes. Kyoto, Uchida Bijutsu, Shôwa 13-4 (1938-9).

. Folio (33 x 23 cm). Lvs. 53 folded in the Japanese fashion. Complete in four volumes comprising 192 beautiful woodcut illustrations. First volume binding has separated into two parts. Original decorated paper covered boards, printed in different colours, somewhat rubbed, rear cover to last volume replaced. Printed paper title labels to front covers.Rare, interesting album with so many different designs, all executed in brilliant colours, several highlighted with metallic pigments. The great diversity of motifs varies from everyday subjects to more fancy themes, several with humorous elements. Fine impression, in lovely condition. The artist Kawarasak Kôdô was a a renowned Kyoto-based designer and illustrator at this time. Published by the very well-known and superior printing house Uchida in Kyoto, today still in operation. We have not found any library copy but a similar work titled: Shuko mon'yô volumes one and four (1939 & 1941) is listed at the National Diet Library.

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Book number: 120978

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, design, illustrated, woodcut, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

KNAUER, LEOPOLDINE (Transl.):

Die zerbrochenen Bildsäulen. (The Broken Images). Japanische Märchen. Tokyo, Takejiro Hasegawa, Showa 6, (1931).

. Small 18mo crêpe paper book (10.3 x 15 cm). Lvs 15, folded in the fukuro-toji style. With thirteen colour woodcut illustrations, several full page. Original wrappers, pictorial upper cover (one tiny tear at upper margin), spine covered, silk ties. A scarce title. Included in a series of 12 German books (Japanische Märchen) offered by Hasegawa/Nishinomiya in 1931. This work is translated from the English by L. Knauer (and from the Japanese into English by T.H. James). Small water staining to upper margin of two leaves otherwise in lovely condition.

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Book number: 120484

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asien, asatic, travel, exploration, woodcut, illustrated,

KUNDÍ, SAWADA (Ed.) / SAWADA, SIICHIRO (Artist):

Ch sen ko t jiki-sh Collection of antique Korean ceramics. Kyoto, Uns›do, Taisho 13 (1924).

. Oblong album with 32 leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. With thirty double-page illustrations of Korean ceramics and/or porcelain. Beautiful woodcuts printed in various gentle colours with captions in Japanese. Some discolouration. Original decorated paper wrappers, lightly rubbed with some minor chipping along edges. Old ex-owner's sticker (partly erased) on front cover. Black ink inscription on the spine. The album contains beautiful designs of old Korean pottery wares such as urns, jars, bowls, plates and tiles. Most of them are from the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392 AD) but some are from the Three Kingdoms period (57BC - 668 AD) and the later Silla period (668-935 AD). Korea, along with China, was the earliest country to produce high-fired stoneware. During the Three Kingdoms wares were produced in a tunnel-shaped wood-fired climbing kiln with a temperature more than 1000 degrees C. The chamber enabled an oxygen control. The characteristic soft gray colour of the stoneware of the Three Kingdoms period is the result of the reduction of oxygen in the chamber. The pottery became hard and non-porous. The finest works of ceramics in Korea, Cheongia (celadon) wares, were produced in the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). This work based on field studies of Korean ceramics was published at a time when interest of folk art was increasing in Japan. Mingei, developed in 1920s, was a movement with the aim of preserving folk art in Japan. The movement was initiated by Yanagi S›etsu, a Japanese philosopher and aesthete who travelled to Korea in 1916 and there discovered common wares made by local Korean artisans. He established a Korean Folk Craft Museum in Seoul. 

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Book number: 121249

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, korea, corean, korean, asia, asie, asiatic, asien, porcelain, woodblock, illustrated, art, ceramics, stoneware, mingei,

TOMINAGA NANGAI:

[TEA / JAPAN] Chaki meikeihen (A selection of tea utensils). Two volumes. Nagoya, Nagoya Shorin, Tempo 9 (1838).

. Pp. (v), 58; 63. With more than 100 woodcut-printed vessels, all except three coloured. The later half of volume two with several tiny wormholes. Bound in the traditional Japanese fashion, stitching renewed, original paper wrappers with title labels. Preface dated Tempo 8 (1837). First edition.Interesting and valuable manual of the famous Raku tea bowls and other wares used in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Many are examples from the collection of Sen no Rikyû, the Japanese tea master living in the 16th century, a collection which had the most profound influence on the wabi-cha tradition. The wabi-cha tea tradition emphasized simplicity. Rikyû had a tile maker, named Chôjirô, who made hand-shaped tea bowls for use in the wabi-cha ceremony. Tominaga Nangai (1774-1854) was a national scholar, skilled artist and versed in waka poetry and tea ceremony.There are 45 different Raku tea bowls illustrated and described with detailed measurements. Followed by many water containers and thirty-two vases made of different materials. The preface mentions important potters of Raku-ware and the work ends with a list of famous tea objects together with their collectors.

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Book number: 121413

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, tea, utensils, culture, woodblock, illustrated, tea ceremony, wabi-cha, raku,