Tokyo: Proletarian Artists League, 1930. Square duodecimo (12.2 x 13 cm). Original side-stapled pictorial wrappers; [2], 28 pp. Staples rusted, overall very good condition. The proletarian arts movement in Eastern Asia rose in the wake of the global upheaval prominent from 1917 to 1921. Massive revolutions, strikes, and occupations throughout..... More
Printed photograph album commemorating the visit of the Crown Prince to the Karafuto prefecture in the summer of 1925, with preface by Okishima Kamazo and edited by Fujii Shoji, consisting of 20 plates with 73 black and white photographs tracing the Crown Prince's trip including visits to schools, agricultural research..... More
Various cities: various publishers, circa 1924. Various sizes, mostly octavo 18 to 24 cm high, some fold out to larger sheets. Original printed wrappers and self-wrappers; pagination ranges from single sheets to a 14-pp. catalog. Some light handling wear, chipping, minor soiling, overall very good. An assortment of seven 1920's..... More
St. Petersburg: Tipografiia Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1913. Large octavo (27.5 × 19 cm). Original printed wrappers; [2], 51 pp., VII leaves of phototype reproductions. About very good; a few small nicks; wrappers foxed; in protective calque. Illustrated essay on various coins in use prior to the Japanese currency reform of..... More
Rome: Tipografia Poliglotta, 1940. Small folio (36.5 x 27 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 54 pp. Some light soiling and wear to covers, interior clean, overall very good. A single standalone issue of a journal published by the Italian-Japanese friendship society on the occasion of the signing of the tripartite pact..... More
![Book ID: 52525 Kenchiku yoshiki ronso [The theory of architectural style]. Takao Itagaki,...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Tokyo: Rokubunkan, 1932. Octavo (19.6 × 17.8 cm). Publisher’s embossed beige cloth with black title to spine and board; 707 pp. of text, including four folding plates. With 156 illustrations, including reproductions of photographs on better stock and plans, views, and diagrams, as well as illustrations in the text. In..... More
6 vols., with approx. 390 superb plates (30 in color, the others in photogravure on fine paper) accompanied by interleaved commentary on the objects, documenting the major collection of mostly Japanese, with some Chinese, art including paintings, lacquerwork, sculpture, ceramics, etc. Large folio. Silk-covered boards, elaborately tie-bound in the Japanese..... More
Unpaginated (6) pp. title and introductory matter, including list of exhibited works, accompanying 57 plates (3 in superb color) showing excellent photographs of dramatic Noh masks, most from the collections of private individuals (mainly patriarchs of Noh acting families) and a few held by National museums. Folio. Paper-covered boards, tie-bound..... More
![Book ID: 52727 Naitō tachū sakuhin fu. [Tachū Naitō Works.]. Tachū Naitō](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/52727.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698691461)
Tokyo: Jonan Shoin, 1944. Quarto (29.5 x 21.3 cm). Stamped cloth, with accompanying printed cardboard slipcase; 114 pp. Some browning to flyleaves, light toning to slipcase, overall very good. Tachū Naitō (1886-1970) was a Japanese architect, engineer, and professor. He was a pioneer in earthquake-proof design and built many broadcasting..... More
![Book ID: P001878 Rezchik iz Siuzendzhi [The chiseller from Siuzenji]. Translated from the...](https://bernettpenka.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/P001878_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593527017)
First edition thus. Paperback. Paris: 1928. Octavo (23 cm). Original decorative yellow card wrappers (unattributed); 44 pp. With one black-and-white photograph depicting a scene in the play's first performance. Wrappers slightly dust-soiled; small chips along overlapping edges; text very good. First and only Russian translation of this play by Japanese..... More
42 pp. compendium of poems by noted figures including Koshiro Onchi, who also designed the book and its layout, accompanied by 8 reproductions of photographs by the noted avant-garde photographer Katsuji Fukuda (1899-1991) mostly showing images of the female nude. 4to. Stiff printed and illustrated wrpps., sl. shaken. Tokyo (Fugaku..... More
5 volume study and presentation (in English) of the history of Ukiyoye painting and woodblock printmaking, defined in the preface as genre pictures and popular works depicting manners and customs of the time as opposed to classical works, including an altogether 211 pp. text distributed throughout the volumes, 156 fine..... More
Unpaginated auction catalogue, edited by Gyoho Naito and Sukeharu Ario, of some 250 works of traditional Japanese art and craftsmanship, including paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, calligraphy, decorative objects, and other items, from the fine collection put together by Baron Denzaburo Fujita in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, each..... More
Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1929-1930 (Showa 4 and 5). Large octavos (29 × 19.6 cm). Publisher’s cloth-backed boards with vignette to front board and gilt titles to spine; 381 and 115, 18, [1] pp. The first volume with 350 pp. of plans and drawings, a few in color; the second volume..... More
Bandō, Japan: Lagerdruckerei, 1918. Small quarto (26 × 19 cm). Original lithographed cloth; 79 pp. of mimeographed hand-written text to rectos and versos; [8] leaves of chromolithograph illustrations througout, as well as an additional 3 color initials and 5 vignettes; lithographed endpapers. Light overall wear; cloth somewhat rubbed; still about..... More
5 volumes (all published), containing very brief introductory text followed by altogether 500 plates, each consisting of a color woodcut caricature accompanied by textual commentary in a combination of letterpress and woodcut calligraphy, offering a bitter and ironic look at the politics and social scene of the World War I...... More