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

Blair, Dorothy

A History of Glass in Japan

New York, Kodansha International and the Corning Museum of Glass, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound handsomely in a blue cloth board, applied over a light brown cloth over boards, and with kanji characters in blue over the same light brown border to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Very light sunning along edges, crimping to first two endpapers, previous owner's embossed stamp at second free endpaper, else about Fine. Massively heavy, oversized volume. [6], 7-479 pp. Paul N. Perrot provides a Foreword. Many, many score black-and-white and full-color reproductions of glassmaking and glassmakers in Japan, by a recognized expert.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 345942

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Dorothy Blair|glassmakers|glassmaking|glass in Japan|Japanese glassmaking

Blyth, R.H.

Haiku, Vol. 4, Autumn-Winter

Tokyo, Japan, Hokuseido, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover exemplar of the fourth of the four volumes in the series. Bound in tan oatmeal cloth over boards, black lettering and kanji characters to front cover, lettering to spine. Clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, plentiful black-and-white illustrations including at frontis, tissue-guarded, and with black-and-white illustrated endpapers on glossy paper. 396 pp. including full index plus a fold-out chart of English & Japanese literatures from roughly 500 A.D. to the present.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 357169

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: poetry haiku R.H. Blyth poets poems Japanese history Japanese culture

Boller, Willy

Masterpieces of the Japanese Color Woodcuts

Boston, Boston Book and Art Shop, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with lightly bruised but not broken tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Very light foxing to fore-edges. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear and including some chipping along bottom edges, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not price-clipped. Published in First Edition state by the Boston Book and Art Shop, Boston, 1957. Bound handsomely in a two-tone textured paper over boards, illustrated, being reddish-brown cloth-backed. Folio format, 187 pp. in length, and replete with gorgeous black-and-white and a few full-color illustrations printed on high-gloss paper, featuring the works of such acknowledged masters of the woodcut as Iwasa Matahei, Hishikawa Moronobu, Kwaigetsudo Ando, and others. Printed in Switzerland.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 345139

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Japanese woodcuts|Japanese art|Willy Boller|R. Spreng|Japanese culture|art history|Asian art history|East Asian art history

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

Gentles, Margaret O., curator

Japanese Prints, Volume II: The Clarence Buckingham Collection--Harunobu, Koryusai, Shigemasa, Their Followers and Contemporaries

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, massively heavy, oversized volume, bound handsomely in rust-colored heavy linen cloth boards, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, 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. Compiled by the Curator of the Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese Prints, Margaret O. Gentles, published by The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1965, Top edge gilt. vi + 307 pp. with eight color plates and 527 total illustrations, the remainder being black-and-white, numbered by artist. Housed in matching, nearly As New condition board slipcase, simple but elegant, featuring black cover lettering and design flourish. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. From the personal library of Mr. Richard L. Press, formerly of Richard L. Press Fine Art Books of Sacramento, California, a man known fully to have had exquisite taste in art books, to have bought from the best, and to have curated his collection with mostly only stellar condition volumes. Represents such stellar Japanese artists as Suzuki Harunobu, Suzuki Harushige, 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.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 344916

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Japan|Japanese art history|Clarence Buckingham|Harunobu|Koryusai|Shigemasa|printmakers|printmaking

Gentles, Margaret O., curator

Japanese Prints, Volume II: The Clarence Buckingham Collection--Harunobu, Koryusai, Shigemasa, Their Followers and Contemporaries

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 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 rust-colored heavy linen cloth boards, with sharp and distinct gilt 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. Compiled by the Curator of the Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese Prints, Margaret O. Gentles, published by The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1965, Top edge gilt. vi + 307 pp. with eight color plates and 527 total illustrations, the remainder being black-and-white, numbered by artist. Housed in matching, New condition cardboard slipcase, simple but elegant, featuring black cover lettering and design flourish. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. From the personal library of Mr. Richard L. Press, formerly of Richard L. Press Fine Art Books of Sacramento, California, a man known fully to have had exquisite taste in art books, to have bought from the best, and to have curated his collection with mostly only stellar condition volumes. Represents such stellar Japanese artists as Suzuki Harunobu, Suzuki Harushige, 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.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . New

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Book number: 344917

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

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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

Ishimura Hayao and Maruyama Nobuhiko

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

Raleigh, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1988. . Softcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. 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. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346628

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: kimono |robes of elegance|Ishimura Hayao|Maruyama Nobuhiko|Yamanobe Tomoyuki

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

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

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

Jenyns, Soame

Japanese Porcelain

New York, Praeger, 1965. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Nice-looking, structurally sound copy bound in green cloth over boards, being the First U.S. Edition, with fine frontis illustration in full color, with a Foreword by Richard de la mare, with four full-color plates and 120 in black-and-white and printed on high-gloss paper. Discusses major periods of Japanese porcelain origins and development, export trade therein, the Imari and other Arita wares, blue and white porcelains, Kutani wares, Nabeshima, Hirado and other wares, and lists of kiln sites. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiii + 351 [1] pp. + plates, then a fold-out map of the "Chief porcelain kiln sites in Kyushu with inset of Kutani kiln.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346626

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Japanese Porcelain|Soame Jenyns|porcelain|Japanese culture|Japanese art history

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