SADAHIDE,Gyokuransai and KANAGAKI, Robun. Yokohama Miyage. Two volumes 18x12cm, original decorated wrappers, (worn but solid) with original printed label on the first volume and an old manuscript replacement on the second; Each with 25 folded leaves all with colour woodcuts.. 8vo. wrappers. [Tokyo] : Gifuya Seishichi,1860.
This is an early survey.....
Item nr. 173368
Price: $3,750.00
BOULTON, Emily Bishop. Nihon Fuzoku [Japanese customs.] 3 Volumes: 27; 26; 26 pp. colour woodcut plates with one foldout. 8vo. (102 x 70 mm.) publisher's wrappers. Osaka, Tsujiko Kumataro, 1890.
The plates depict among other subjects, courtiers, military commanders and soldiers, daimyos (feudal lords), scholars, servants, merchants, "A bully's wife", samurai.....
Item nr. 173149
Price: $1,500.00
![Item nr. 173030 Shikimei Dai Jiten [A comprehensive dictionary of colors]. Sanzo WADA](https://ursusbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/173030_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750203111)
WADA, Sanzo. Shikimei Dai Jiten. [A comprehensive dictionary of colors]. 2 volumes. Volume 1: 5, 145 pp. Volume 2: 200 mounted colour samples on 20 cards. 4tos, 260 x 177 mm, publisher's cloth in cardboard slipcase. Tokyo: Sogensha, 1954.
One of several important works on Colour by Sanzo Wada. Wada, who.....
Item nr. 173030
Price: $4,750.00
SANKO, Ito. Sanko's sample plates for 1942 Autumn and fall season. 1 text leaf and 33 leaves containing a total of 87 tipped-on colour samples. Folio, 353 x 230 mm, publisher's silk covered boards. N.p.: 1942.
A fine copy of this exquisite collection of colour samples, with the tipped-on samples showing.....
Item nr. 172887
Price: $2,500.00
SANKO, Ito. Sanko's sample plates for 1939 Autumn and fall season. 1 text leaf and 26 leaves containing a total of 81 tipped-on colour samples. Folio, 370 x 245 mm, publisher's silk covered boards. N.p.: 1939.
A fine copy of this exquisite collection of colour samples, with the tipped-on samples showing.....
Item nr. 172886
Price: $2,500.00
GYOKUNEN, Kobayashi. Tama kagami. [Jewel Mirror.] 2 volumes. Volume 1[Heaven]:Unpaginated, 1 folding colour plate, [1] pp. text, 24 single page colour plates. Volume 2 [Earth]: 1 folding colour plate, 25 single page colour plates, [2] pp. text. 255 x 170 mm, stab bound in publisher's wraps. Kyoto: Fujisawa Shuppanbu, Meiji.....
Item nr. 172875
Price: $7,500.00
JAPAN. Le Costume. 33pp. Folio. Illustrated wrappers. NP.(Tokyo) 1946.
A remarkable Japanese publication showcasing Western style clothes and accessories, published shortly after the end of the war, and presumably aimed at the occupiers. Not listed on OCLC.
Item nr. 171776
Price: $375.00
MATSUNO, Kazuo. Bi [Beauty]. 114 pp. Folio, publisher's illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1936.
A splendid survey of 1930's Japanese design with articles on a wide variety of subjects. This is the sole issue published of what was intended to be a guide to the design.....
Item nr. 170392
Price: $750.00
MATSUYAMA, Toan. Chigaku kotohajime. Illustrated with 6 fold-out and one double-page map 3 volumes. 8vo.Original wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Tokyo: Keio Gijuku, 1870.
A charming introductory textbook to world geography was published in 1870 just as Japan was opening up. Volume 1 covers the world and Asia; Volume.....
Item nr. 170388
Price: $875.00
KOBAYAHI, Masaru. Kabuki kumadori gaikan. 117 pp. text, with 41 tipped-in coloured woodblock engravings. 4to, 253 x x 190 mm., publisher's boards and cardboard slipcase. Kyoto: Guroriya Sosaete, 1931.
A beautifully made book on the art of kumadori makeup used by the actors of the kabuki theater. Kumadori makeup usually consists.....
Item nr. 169992
Price: $875.00
AWOKI, T. and J. SUSUKA. Sekai ryoko bankoku meisho zue. Illustrated Guide Book for Travellers round the World. Five volumes in seven. Illustrated with hundreds of woodcut illustrations including a volvelle, accompanied by a folding Map of the World in illustrated boards. 145 x 95 mm. each, bound in original.....
Item nr. 169333
Price: $4,750.00
SHINKYO TOKUBETSUSHI. Kokuto shinkyo. 28 Plates, several in colour and a folding map. 4to, 223 x 150 mm. Publisher's illustrated boards, slightly edgeworn. Hsin-King : Manshu Jijo Annaijo, 1940.
A scarce photographic survey of the capital of Manchukuo with an unusually elaborate layout. The photographs have captions in English as well.....
Item nr. 167271
Price: $375.00
IEHARA, Masanori and Kan'ichiro SHIOZU. Gakko hitsuyo irozu mondo. [2], 40, [2] pp. on 22 double folded leaves, illustrated with two hand-coloured charts and small hand-coloured squares throughout the text. 8vo, 210 x 150 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers with title label. Kyoto: Wakabayashi Kisuke, 1876 [Meiji 9].
This is most.....
Item nr. 165153
Price: $2,500.00
YOSHIKAWA, H. and Y. Kamera to Kikansha. Kamera und Lokomotiv. 195 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. 8vo, 190 x 210 mm., bound in publisher's cloth. Tokyo: Genkosha, 1938.
A fine copy of this prewar photo-book on Japanese steam trains by Hayao Yoshikawa (1890-1959), who was best known for his books on.....
Item nr. 165029
Price: $2,500.00
MORIKAWA, Kanichiro. Shino kiseto Oribe. (Japanese Pottery: Shino Pottery, Kiseto Pottery, Oribe Pottery). 25 pp. Illustrated with 115 plates. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth, preserved in a cloth portfolio. Nagoya: Morikawa Kaoru, 1936.
Item nr. 134703
Price: $500.00
NAKAMURA, Gyokushu. Miyama no shiori. 2 volumes. 250 x 160 mm. Kyoto: Honda Unkido, 1901.
An exquisite collection of designs probably created as patterns for kimonos. In fine condition and extremely rare. Some of the plates have a distinctly modernist feel. There is some soiling, but the stunning plates are immaculate.
OCLC.....
Item nr. 171780
Price: $4,750.00
MITCHELL, C.H. Handmade Papers of Japan. 128 pp., with numerous tipped-in paper samples. 4to, 240 x 165 mm., publisher's Japanese style binding. Tokyo: IIS Crafts, 1963.
An important contribution to the literature of Japanese papermaking. It includes an abridged reproduction of one of the classics of Japanese literature about papermaking by.....
Item nr. 171066
Price: $2,500.00
SEKKA, Kamisaka. Koromogae. Two volumes. Comprised of 100 colour woodblock prints. Oblong 4to., 190 x 260 mm, bound in original silk over boards in a new cloth chitsu case. Kyoto: Yamada Unsôdô, Meji 34 [1901].
A beautiful copy of this splendid textile pattern book of supreme elegance featuring 100 coloured woodcut.....
Item nr. 159826
Price: $9,750.00
WADA, Sanzo. Haishoku sokan. Six volumes of plates and two loose folded card leaves. The plate volumes constitute a total of 348 accordion folding card leaves with mounted colour samples arranged in twos in the first two volumes, threes in the next two, and fours in the last two. The.....
Item nr. 173356
Price: $12,500.00
KYOTO. Miyako Meisho Zue. [Collection of Pictures of Famous Places of the Capital]. 6 volumes. By Akisato Rito. Xylographically printed and illustrated with 72 full-page and 180 double-spread woodblock plates throughout by Takehara Shunchôsai Nobushige. Kyoto: Yoshinoya Tamehachi, An'ei 9 [1780].
PLUS:
_____. Shûi-Miyako Meisho Zue. [Supplement to the Collection of Pictures.....
Item nr. 172771
Price: $17,500.00
KITAHARA, Yoshio. Gendai shogyo bijutsu zenshu. 24 Volumes. Profusely illustrated. Folio. Publisher's wrappers and cloth. Tokyo: Ars,1928-1930.
A 24-volume-illustrated survey of international commercial and graphic,with each volume consisting of between 100 and 150 pages, profusely illustrated in black and white and colour. The set is a veritable encyclopedia of contemporary international.....
Item nr. 173172
Price: $3,500.00
BAN, Genpei. Hakubutsuzu ryakkai. [Natural History Guide.] 24 ff., illustrated throughout in black and white. 154 x 97 mm, stab bound in publisher's wrappers. Osaka: Chuga do, Meji 9 [1876].
An exquisite guide to natural history contains detailed illustrations of leaves, plants and fungi, describing their characteristics and ecology in a......
Item nr. 172924
Price: $2,500.00
FURUKAWA, Masao. Eiri Chienowa. 4 books in 8 volumes. 8vo, publisher's wrappers. Yokyo: Otakaya Kachichi, 1873.
A wonderfully illustrated guide to elementary education, which is also one of the first modern Japanese picture books. one of the printed labels replaced in manuscript.
OCLC lists Harvard, Amherst, Stanford and BL.
Item nr. 171900
Price: $1,500.00
ITO, Chuta. Ashura-cho. 5 volumes with a total of 500 numbered plates. 4to, 250 x 215 mm., publisher's decorated cloth over boards, each in a chitsu case. Tokyo-shi Kanda-ku: Kokusui Shuppansha, 1920-21.
A handsome set of this extremely unusual collection of Japanese caricatures which came out just after the First World.....
Item nr. 168694
Price: $2,500.00
KON, Wajiro. Shoten no Gaiso to Kanban. Tokyo ginza suketchishu. 70 pp., with 16 colour plates. 8vo, 253 x 175 mm., publisher's illustrated boards. Tokyo: 1951
One of Kon's many books supporting his science of Modernology, which he founded in the twenties when he lost his faith in planners and architects.....
Item nr. 170554
Price: $875.00