Kōbe (Japan), Meiji period, ca. 1890-1900. Original string-bound pamphlet in card wrappers, measuring 17.5 × 13.5 cm, with two printed labels affixed to front wrapper; twenty-five leaves containing 500 tipped-in matchbox labels, predominantly color-printed, measuring ca. 3.5 × 5 to 4.2 × 6.5 cm. Light soil and wear to wrappers;..... 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
Invitation for Ay-O's Rainbow Staircase Environment, "A Fluxfest Presentation", held at 363 Canal Street, New York, on November 20, 1965, from 7 to 10 pm, with $1 entry admission charged, the invitation designed by George Maciunas. Offset lithograph printed in black text on cream-colored paper, overall dimensions 5 3/4 x...... 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
Unpaginated (29 leaves) album including introductory text on the conference and promoting and explaining the planned-for International Exposition scheduled to be held in Tokyo in 1940, printed list of contents, and 31 mounted original photographs(most approx. 4 1/2" x 6") showing international delegates (both Asian and Caucasian) to the conference..... More
106, 18 pp. text (in Japanese with annotated list of plates translated into English) on the outpouring of art related to Zen Buddhism in Japan, 290 illustrations on plates showing paintings, ink drawings, calligraphy, masks, tea ceremony objects, ceramics, scrolls, etc. 4to. Cloth, d.j. Kyoto (Bokubi-sha) 1958... More
89, 13 pp. text (in Japanese with English summary) and descriptions, 100 plates showing a fine collection of masks as used in Noh plays. Sm. 4to. Cloth, d.j. (chipped). Kyoto (Hinoki) 1954. 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
![Shikisai shogyo zuan-shu [Commercial design in color]. Ryoji Naito](/pictures/thumb/51180_002.jpg?v=1616002683)
84 total leaves including 80 numbered full-colored plates, each plate with multiple Art Deco-style commercial images on various themes including travel, liquor, coffe, tea ceremony, dancing, music, furniture and interior design, bicycles, fashion, makeup and perfume, hygiene, smoking, food, transportation, sports, animals, and plants. Some minor scattered toning and foxing..... More
![Rezchik iz Siuzendzhi [The chiseller from Siuzenji]. Translated from the Japanese by S....](/pictures/thumb/P001878_1.jpg?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
Tokyo: Tensei Shuppan, 1968-1969. The only four issues published (each approx. 200 pp.) of a periodical (mostly in Japanese, with some French translations) devoted to stretching the boundaries of human sexuality and gender identity, exploring sexual customs, mores, and deviance cross-culturally, including analysis of Shunga and other Ukiyo-e prints, Marquis..... 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
![Tōkyō kangyō hakurankai jimu hōkoku jōkan [Tokyo Industrial Exposition Report, Vol. 1]....](/pictures/thumb/50219_001.jpg?v=1580326967)
331 pp. volume representing the first part of a two-part govermental report on the 1907 Tokyo Industrial Exposition, covering the overall operations and organization of the exposition including maps and plans for the arrangement of the pavilions within Ueno Park, and interior plans describing the use of the pavilions and..... 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
Unpaginated album containing 30 leaves, printed recto only, presenting two ground plans and 28 photographic plates showing the Nikko Toshogu Shrine (the mausoleum for Tokugawa Leyasu (founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate)), the complex of buildings, its grounds and environs, with an additional photograph showing the Yomeimon Gate of the shrine..... 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
Three catalogues from exhibitions by the important Japanese Neo-Dada and avant-garde artist, held from 1966 through 1970, including: "Kudo", an unpaginated (8 pp.) booklet containing correspondence between Kudo and W.A.L. Beeren, chronology, and five mostly black-and-white photographs. 8vo. Original side-stapled wrpps. Amsterdam (Galerie 20) n.d. (circa 1966). "Kudo: Cultivation by Radioactivity..... More
Tokyo: Hakubisha, 1933-34. Octavos (19.7 × 13 cm). Original blue cloth publisher's folding case with clasp and printed label to front board, housing a text booklet in printed wrappers (29 pp), two loose folded leaves with a total of four color plates, and six volumes of plates bound accordion-style in..... More