Title: ????/????; Editor: ??????; Publisher: ???????????. Meiji 39. Cloth wraps with floral pattern, string tie binding with 2/3 patterned silk spine, and paper title label to front wrap. Japanese text throughout. Color illustrations throughout. Patterned silk spine has become detached from spine area, but is still intact (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. Unpaginated. 7 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches. First Edition. View More...
Photographic wraps. Tear to front cover along tail of spine. Monochrome and occasional color photography throughout; some fold-out pages. Unpaginated. 295 x 424 mm First Edition. View More...
With a translation of the Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan, or Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 1679-1701. 2 Volumes complete in one book. Second edition with corrections. Slipcase with paper exterior and design and text to all side boards. Green cloth with gilt particulars to spine; white dust jacket with text. Organized into 2 Volumes: Volume 1 containing On Tao and the Tao, The First Canon of Painting, The Four Treasures: Brush, Ink, Inkstone, Paper, and the Elements of a Picture; Volume 2 contains 3 parts including but not limited to: the Book of... Trees, ...Rocks, ...Jên-wu, ...the Orchid,... View More...
Inscribed by author to title page: "To Marion + Sig, Best wishes, Mike Yamashita, Silver Wind 1/24/99." Dark blue textured paper boards with silver particulars to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Articles included are: Water of Stone by Dza Chu, Turbulent River by Lancang Jiang, Mother of Waters by Mae Nam Khong, Great Water by Tonle Thom, The Four Faces by Chattomukh, and lastly, River of Nine Dragons by Cuu Long. Copiously illustrated with full color photographs throughout. Pages bright and clean; aside from author inscription, no previous owners' names or other markings. 131 pp. 11 /14 x 11 1/... View More...
Pictorial paper wraps with text. Japanese and English text throughout. Many full color illustrations throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light wear to wraps and crease to back wrap's bottom, exterior corner (see image). 9 x 11 3/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition. View More...
Black and brown buckram boards with debossed Japanese characters to front board; gilt particulars to spine. Pictorial dust jacket protected in mylar. Photogravure plates throughout. Also published in Japanese under the title Taido (Way of the Body). Essay by Hitoshi Tamari; edited by Keizo Aizawa. Translated by M. Weatherby and Paul T. Konya. Dust jacket states: "140 photographic studies in gravure of over 50 of Japan's most perfectly developed young men--young men who in their single-minded devotion to a rigorous training regimen might even be called Japan's new breed of samurai." No previous... View More...