JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes, mounted in an album. Small folio, 305 x 225mm, bound in pale blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. [Japan, 1930's].
An eclectic collection of Japanese food and drink labels from the.....
Item nr. 159825
Price: $1,500.00
KIMONO DESIGNS. Album of hand-painted Japanese Kimono Designs. Comprising 100 leaves with more than 500 hand-painted samples of patterns for Japanese kimonos, most of them pasted in. A few are painted on cloth. Oblong folio, 410 x 310 mm, bound in original printed wrapppers, preserved in a new blue cloth.....
Item nr. 164751
Price: $5,850.00
KATAGAMI STENCIL DESIGNS. A Collection of Meiji Period Original Kimono Stencil Plates. With 20 stencil plates. Stencil paper was constructed from the bark of mulberry trees then treated with persimmon juice; the sheets measure ca. 220 x 400 mm and the largest measuring 350 x 450 mm. Each in individual.....
Item nr. 168446
Price: $7,500.00
YAMAOKA, Chinpei. Ashide e Uta awase (Ashide Art combined with Poems). 2 volumes. Each with 24 mounted colour woodblock prints. Folio. 480 x 320 mm. Publisher's silk over boards, in a new chitsu case, presrving the original label. Kyoto: Happodo, 1938.
A spectacular example of Japanese bookmaking containing exquistely colour woodblock.....
Item nr. 165407
Price: $3,500.00
ITAGAKI, Takao. Atarashiki Geijutsu no Kakutoku. 246 pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers preserved in a new black cloth box. Tokyo: Tenjinsha, 1930.
First edition of this essay on the machine and new architecture and design, by the champion of modernism in Japan. OCLC lists only 2 copies.....
Item nr. 167410
Price: $1,500.00
JAPANESE ORNAMENTAL WOODBLOCK PRINTS. Bijutsu Kai. Collection of Pictures Regarding Colour Designs for Japanese Textiles Costumes. Five parts in one volume. Five folding plates and 18 full-page coloured woodblock prints per section, for a total of 95 original illustrations. 8vo., 232 x 160 mm, bound in Japanese accordion style with.....
Item nr. 142126
Price: $7,500.00
SEKKA, Kamisaka, Furuya KORIN et al. Bijutsu-Kai. 14 Volumes. Illustrated with 1397 woodblock printed plates. 4to., bound in publisher's wrappers in 2 new chitsu cases. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, 1935.
$17,500.00
A splendid complete set of this legendary publication, here consisting of the plates from the 70 issues bound up separately by the.....
Item nr. 165245
Price: $17,500.00
SAKATA, Sakujiro. Chashitsu okoshi-ezu. [Drawings of Famous Tea-Houses]. A set of 90 pop-up architectural models of chashitsu, Japanese tea-houses, yoritsuki and koshikake. 90 envelopes (255 x 170 mm.). Each set accompanied by a printed list describing each model, pasted on the inside of the top of each of the two.....
Item nr. 165325
Price: $12,500.00
TAGUCHI, Bairei. and Toshu MATSUI. Chiyo no nishiki. 2 Volumes. Each volume illustrated with 26 colour woodblock plates. Oblong folio, 325 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers in a new chitsu case. Kyoto: Miyata Toyamado, 1901.
An extremely rare and unusual work, in that it comprises a collection of kimono.....
Item nr. 165143
Price: $3,500.00
KAWARAZAKI, Kodo. Cho, [Butterfly]. 20 woodblock printed plates of which 10 are in colour. Large folio, 420 x 305 mm, bound in publisher's woodblock printed boards in a new chitsu case. Kyoto: Uchida Bijutsu Shoshi, 1933.
A splendid series of imaginative design plates featuring butterflies as the unifying motif. Each of.....
Item nr. 165406
Price: $1,500.00
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SHIMOMURA, Shotaro. Chudo-Ken. Views Within and Outside. Chewdoh-Ken (Tudor House). One leaf of text and 31 mounted gelatin silver prints, each with printed tissue guard. Oblong 4to., 218 x 278 mm, bound in contemporary decorative morocco by Matsuzaki & Co. Kyoto: [ca. 1930].
Only Edition of this eccentric Japanese book, published.....
Item nr. 126157
Price: $4,750.00
HATSUSABURO, Yoshida. Chugai Sangyo Hakurankai. Colour illustrated card cover 190 x 120 mm with a 750 mm long folding colour birds-eye view by Hatsusubaro on one side and text and photo illustrations on the other. Cover also by Hatsusubaro. Kyoto(?): 1928 [Showa 3].
An attractive panorama of, and brief guide, to.....
Item nr. 164387
Price: $850.00
SUGIHARA Jiro, (editor). Dai Toa kensetsu gaho: Ajia no mamori, Teikoku Kaigun. 60 pp. Illustrated throughout with photomontages. Folio, bound in original illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Nihon Denpo Tsushinsha Shuppanbu, 1942.
This is the Japanese language edition of the great propaganda magazine Front, which appeared in some 15 different languages, and is.....
Item nr. 165015
Price: $1,500.00
KAWAKATSU, Tokujiro. Dainihon dochu saikenzu: kaisei. Woodblock print with contemporary hand colouring. 12mo., 150 x 80 mm, folded. Opens up to 295 x 1345 mm. Bound in publisher's wrappers and paper label. In a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Tokujiro, Kawakatsu, 1884.
A fine copy of this charming pocket map of Japan.....
Item nr. 165345
Price: $975.00
AOYAMA, Toyotaro. Dainihon Hakuranzu, Tochigi-ken no bu. [Catalog of the Industrial Exhibition (Japan): Tochigi Prefecture]. 200 engraved plates on 100 leaves. Oblong folio, 320 x 220 mm, bound in contemporary cloth backed boards, rebacked, with part of the original spine laid down, in a new chitsu case. Tokyo: Seikosha, 1890.
A.....
Item nr. 165229
Price: $9,750.00
With an unrecorded 31st Map
TOMATSU Masanori, Muneyasu KAGEYAMA et al. Edo Kiriezu. A complete set of 31 Coloured Woodblock Maps of Tokyo. 12mo., each bound in original pale blue wrappers, preserved in a contemporary wooden box. Edo: Owariya Seishichi, 1852-1864.
A possibly unique set of these Tokyo maps consisting of a......
Item nr. 168611
Price: $25,000.00
KAWAKAMI, Sumio. Egeresu iroha: Gashu. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. 12mo., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Fugaku Honsha, 1946.
A charming English alphabet created by Sumio Kawakami (1895-1972) who is considered an important wood cut printer, and to whose work an entire museum is devoted. His origins in Yokohama can be.....
Item nr. 165024
Price: $495.00
MATSUYAMA, Shisui. Fune to zosensho no hanashi. 12, 244 pp. Illustrated title, three photo plates, two folding plans, illustrations and photos through the text. 8vo., bound in publisher's colour illustrated boards and slightly rubbed slipcase. Tokyo: Kinto-sha, 1932 [Showa 7].
A spectacular piece of Japanese modernist book design, at least as.....
Item nr. 164383
Price: $1,250.00
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 preserved in a new purple cloth folding box.....
Item nr. 165153
Price: $2,500.00
SATO, Giryo. Gendai ryoki sentan zukan. [Pictorial of the Modern, Curiosity Hunting, and the Avant-Garde]. 4, [2], 246, [2], 46, [2] pp. Small folio, 275 x 205 mm bound in publisher's decorated cloth and illustrated cardboard slipcase. Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1931.
A wonderfully strange Japanese photobook illustrating the Japanese fascination with pre-war.....
Item nr. 163821
Price: $1,750.00
SUZUKI, Yoshikazu & Sohachi KIMURA. Ginza Kaiwai. With: Ginza Haccho. 2 Volumes. Square 8vo., embossed paper-covered boards with tipped-in illustrated plate on cover, in a rice-paper covered slipcase with labels on front and spine. Hardcover leporello in publisher's boards. Both in the publisher's original cardboard box with orange and black.....
Item nr. 165010
Price: $3,750.00
FUKUDA, Katsuji. Ginza. 134 pp. Illustrated. 8vo., publisher's illustrated boards and decorated cardboard slipcase. Tokyo: Genkosha, 1941
A fine copy of this Japanese homage to the prewar European photobook. Includes some charming photographs of the city before it was firebombed. OCLC lists only the copies in Waseda and the National.....
Item nr. 167211
Price: $2,500.00
Models for Origami
MAEKAWA, Senpan. Goruden batto dobutsuen. 14 double leaves. Illustrated with 13 double page colour woodcuts. 12mo., 125 x 90 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers in new chitsu case. Tokyo: Maekawa Senpan, 1944.
A delightful little book, which was privately published by the author, who was a notable print maker.....
Item nr. 165060
Price: $875.00
ANONYMOUS. Guide to Japan. 21 plates, (one loose). 12mo., 159 x 104 mm, bound in contemporary flexible calf. n.p., n.d. [Tokyo: ca. 1800?].
A small album containing twenty-one exquisite early nineteenth-century views of Japan. Not all the views are identified, but among the ones that are views of Kyushu, Kyoto, Osaka.....
Item nr. 116422
Price: $1,250.00
GYOSAI, Kawanabe. Gyosai Gadan. Two parts in 4 volumes. Xylographically printed and illustrated throughout, including many double-page woodcut illustrations. 4to., 178 x 257 mm, bound in original woodblock wrappers with paper labels, sewn Japanese-style, together in original blue chitsu box with coloured woodblock label on front cover. [Tokyo]: Iwamoto Shun.....
Item nr. 151893
Price: $8,750.00