Full brown calf. Gilt particular to front cover and spine. Gilt top edge with attached ribbon. No previous owners' names or other markings. Multiple black/white plates throughout. Scarce. 7.25 x 9.75 in View More...
Limited to 300 copies, in which this is number 202. Carefully selected, representative masterpieces of great art of Japan including: Imperial Majesty, Emperor of Japan treasures from the Imperial Palace Collection as well as from the Imperial Household Museum. Included in the Exhibition: screens, paintings, sculptures First Edition. View More...
Navy blue cloth covered boards with silver particulars to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Textured blue endpapers. Immensely illustrated with full color photographs of varying kinds of fish. 2 silk ribbons present, dark and light blue specifically. No previous owners' names or other markings. Some creasing and and light wear to dust jacket (see image). 8 3/4 x 12 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. Dust jacket present. View More...
Original woodblock print. 5a artist signature and seal to bottom left corner as well as signed and titled in pencil at bottom edge. Title also in Japanese on bottom left edge. Oban tate-e format. Two small scratches in sky at upper portion of print and one at center, both unnoticeable unless intentionally looking for them. Matted with window mat: Overall: 15 x 20 inches; Window: 11 x 16 inches; Print: 10 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches. View More...
Printed on tan rice paper with 4 color illustrations tipped in to pamphlet. A scarce pamphlet that is from the travelling exhibition "Japan, Remainders of an Ideal. The Visions and Practices of HUNDERTWASSER" which took place from 2006-2007. Includes two blurbs of text by Hundertwasser and M. Honma, the Deputy Director of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Artworks included are: Flooded Sleep (659A), The Rain Falls Far From Us (692A), Two Clouds Raining Seven Colors (473A), and Two Trees on Board of Regentag (688A). No previous owners' names or other markings. 1 folded page. 2 small hol... View More...
Publisher:
Japanese Culture Promoting Society : 1937
Seller ID: 6023
Issued by Japan Culture Promotion Association. Preface by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Koki Hirota. In English and Japanese text throughout. Tipped in color woodblock prints at beginning, as well as both color and black and white photographs throughout. Organized into the following sections: Scenic Trio of Japan, Eight Celebrated Views of Japan, National Parks, Celebrated Castles, Shrines and Temples, Parks and Gardens, Military and National Sports, Modern Sports, Annual Functions and Customs, Theatrical Performances. Tissue guard with text for each hors texte plate. Coarse woven silk boar... View More...
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...
Black cloth boards with Buddha impressions to front; gilt title to spine. Native fiber endpapers. Many color and black/white plates. No previous owner's names or other markings. Pp. 195 10.5 x 13.5 in Dust jacket present. 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...
Map of Japan dry-mounted to acid free foam-board. Original hand coloring in outline. Image size: 21 x 19 in Paper size: 26.25 x 20 in Board size: 28.75 x 27.25 in View More...
Six colored wood-block prints, each lightly tipped into a windowed sleeve. Accompanying pamphlet explaining each plate in both English and Japanese. 1. Secchu? aiaigasa = [Lovers strolling beneath an umbrella] -- 2. Sagi musume = [Herron girl] -- 3. Ume o oru onna = [Woman breaking off the branch of a plum blossom tree] -- 4. Ensaki bijin = [Beautiful woman on the edge of a veranda] -- 5. Yau miya mairi bijin = [Woman visiting a shrine on a rainy and windy night] -- 6. Kotoji no rakugan = [Kotoji no rakugan] (OCLC). Paper covered portfolio with ribbon ties. Pastedown of title to front cover.... View More...
Warm-tone dark brown silk covered clamshell case with label to front and publication label to interior board. 2 volumes both raw burgundy silk with gilt particulars. Both volumes entirely in Japanese Kanji throughout. Only English text is to front board of volume two. Copiously illustrated with full color photographs throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. An unread copy. Tear to fabric and disconnect at clamshell case bottom exterior corner; rest of case intact and in fine condition (see image). Thin abrasion to front board of volume one (see image). 13 x 18 inches. Please ex... 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...
Signed by author to first free page with small inscription: "To Chris, ?? ? [Things to be done]. Toshio Odate." Author's Inkan next to written signature. Dark blue cloth boards with silver particulars to spine. Pictorial dust jacket protected in mylar. Both black and white photography and illustrations throughout. Organized into 11 chapters, some of which are, but are not limited to: The Workshop (Shigoto-Ba); Marking Tools (Sumitsuke-Dogu); Sharpening Stones (Toishi); Sharpening (Togi); Hammers (Tsuchi); Gimlets (Kiri); Knives and Other Tools (Kogatana and Kodogu); and more. No previous owner... View More...
Very fragile silk painting depicting a coastal scene in color with what appears to be Mt. Fuji in the background, and the body of water they are near is most likely Lake Biwa. Light spotting to edges; tears to silk and detached piece at top left (see image). Original white paint to waves and top of Mt. Fuji color-shifted to light brown as is natural with its age. 11 3/4 x 9 inches. View More...
Two original woodblock prints that create a continuous image when the two are side-by-side. . Print depicting Ichimura Uzaemon XIII (the samurai on the right) has paper adhered to the top edge of the back of the print (see image). Each print: 9.5 x 13.75 inches. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. View More...
Light brown cloth boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine, with image adhered to front board. White paper belly band, stored inside book for safety. Full color and black and white photograph throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light sunning to spine (see image). Japanese and English text throughout. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition. View More...
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