![Ise Dōchū no Maki 伊勢道中之巻 [Pilgrimage to Ise, or, On the Road to Ise, 2 hand scrolls - Emaki 絵巻]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/852/006/1549006852.0.l.jpg)
Ise Dōchū no Maki 伊勢道中之巻 [Pilgrimage to Ise, or, On the Road to Ise, 2 hand scrolls - Emaki 絵巻]
Ise Dōchū no Maki 伊勢道中之巻 [Pilgrimage to Ise, or, On the Road to Ise, 2 hand scrolls - Emaki 絵巻] Height 15 ½” Length, Scroll One: Over 32 feet with 24 scenes along the way. Scroll Two: About 36 feet with 24 scenes….. The amount of work that went into this commission is startling. As some of the scenes are quite original and depict everyday life in Taishō Japan, one may assume the artist painted in studio from sketches... Read More
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![[hand scroll - makimono 巻き物] [Chrysanthemum Scroll]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/498/1493498262.0.l.jpg)
[hand scroll - makimono 巻き物] [Chrysanthemum Scroll]
[hand scroll - makimono 巻き物] [Chrysanthemum Scroll] Japanese hand scroll (makimono 巻き物) with ribbon tie closure and blue brocade fabric at the beginning 22 x 29.7cm; inner paper lining of the fabric section is flaked with gold. The scroll is 2.64m x 29.7cm with a wooden jiku 軸 and is illustrated with single stalk chrysanthemums with leaves, each stalk in a short bamboo vase with a stand. Each flower is identified in approx 3 lines... Read More
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![[Two Matchbook Label Albums][Rinpyō 燐票]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/528/851/1451851528.0.l.jpg)
[Two Matchbook Label Albums][Rinpyō 燐票]
19. [Two matchbook label albums] [Rinpyō 燐票] [C. Late Meiji, early Taisho 1900-1920] Two 15.8 x 11cm orihon folding albums with cloth covered boards and decorative title slips. There are matchbook labels on front and back sides of the folding albums with 3 to 4 matchbook labels, (one book has pages with 2 labels per page), attractively placed on each page. One book has approx 77 on each side for a total of about 154 while the other has... Read More
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![Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 15: My Lord Bag-O’-Rice [Ōdō 王堂]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/125/920/1441920125.0.l.jpg)
Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 15: My Lord Bag-O’-Rice [Ōdō 王堂]
Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 15: My Lord Bag-O’-Rice [Ōdō 王堂]. Hasegawa Takejirō 長谷川武次郎. B. H. Chamberlain, translator. Kobunsha. Tokyo. Meiji 20 [1887]. 18 x 12.3cm small book, bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji opens Western style. [9] cho with decorated wrappers in color, story end on inside rear wrapper. Front wrapper is also embossed. Colophon in Japanese on the inside front and rear wrappers give the date Meiji 20 [1887] and the Saegicho address 南佐柄木町. An early plain paper copy,... Read More
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PHARMACOPOEA HISPANA
1794. PHARMACOPOEA HISPANA. Madrid, Typographia Ibarriana, 1794. First edition. Engraved title. xiv, 212, [22],16 pp. 8vo., full leather that is rubbed and edgeworn, with small losses at spine ends, and shaken. Beautifully printed on fine paper. Internally fine except for library markings, which are limited to the front pastedown and title page. Contemporary ink signature, of Manuel Gorgullo, at the end of errata. (Wellcome IV, p. 370).
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![[Kakemono 掛け物 - Hanging Scroll] [Fireflies in Reeds]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/140/715/1506715140.0.m.jpg)
[Kakemono 掛け物 - Hanging Scroll] [Fireflies in Reeds]
1915. [Kakemono 掛け物 - Hanging Scroll] [Fireflies in Reeds] Kakemono 掛け物 (hanging scroll) has a stenciled ribbon within the stenciled “fabric” border at the top 43 x 48.7cm. The main design is 183 x 48.7cm and the stenciled “fabric” border at the bottom is 24 x 47.7cm. The scroll was created by a dyeing house in Kyoto and done on a single sheet of silk with remarkable yūzen 友禅 dyeing and katazome 型染 stencil techniques that give the... Read More
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![[Zodiacal Animals Handscroll] [Emaki - Handscroll 絵巻]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/292/554/794554292.0.l.0.jpg)
[Zodiacal Animals Handscroll] [Emaki - Handscroll 絵巻]
1800. [Zodiacal Animals Handscroll] [Emaki - Handscroll 絵巻] [C. 1850] [Emaki - Handscroll 絵巻]. A handscroll of zodiacal animals measures 29 x 582 cm. intotal length with 26 cm. blank at the start on heavy paper in a brocade cover. Never finished, it has 10 animals, with a space near the beginning - after the first animal - for 2 more. All but the boar [inoshishi, 猪] and the ox [ushi, 牛] are present. The 12... Read More
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![Kodomo No Kuni. コドモノクニ. Vol. 16 #8 第八號. Showa 12 [1937]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/447/047/1275047447.0.l.jpg)
Kodomo No Kuni. コドモノクニ. Vol. 16 #8 第八號. Showa 12 [1937]
1937. Kodomo No Kuni. コドモノクニ. Vol. 16 #8 第八號. Showa 12 [1937]. 昭和十二年. Tokyo. Tokyosha. 第十六巻. 25 x 25.5cm large-format children’s full color illustrated magazine published in Japan from 1922 to 1944. Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and furigana. This special issue focuses on “Our Rivers,” exploring the theme through illustrated stories about hikers, lumberjacks, electric plants, and other topics. 11 lovely double-page images, as well as front and rear wrapper art, by painter, woodblock artist, and illustrator Hatsuyama... Read More
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Kamigata Shumi 上方趣味
1919. Kamigata Shumi 上方趣味 [2 hand fans on front wrapper]. 夏の巻 Natsu no Maki [Summer edition]. 大正 Taishō 8 [1919].15.5 x 10.7cm bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji with decorated front wrapper of 2 hand fans. 28 cho with index, ads, and information and articles on things to do and see in the Osaka region in Japanese text. One sepia-tone full-page ad and one ad that folds out to 15.5 x 18cm. Monochrome woodcuts throughout with 2 lovely full-page color woodblock... Read More
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![[36 Poems by 36 Haikai Poets]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/461/228/1473228461.0.l.jpg)
[36 Poems by 36 Haikai Poets]
19. [36 Poems by 36 Haikai Poets]. N.p. C. 1900-1920. 30.4 x 26.5cm volume string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji with olive green brocade covers. The blank title slip is mounted on the top left of the front cover. The inner wrappers are covered in gold-flecked paper and the free endpapers appear to be laid paper. [18] cho with an image of a poet and a poem in Japanese calligraphy on each page for a total of [36] pages. The images are... Read More
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![[ZUAN STENCIL DESIGN BOOK]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/616/323/1450323616.0.l.jpg)
[ZUAN STENCIL DESIGN BOOK]
[Zuan - Stencil Design Book]. Kyoto? Shōtoku 正徳 [1711 - 1716] to Meiji Gannen 明治元年 [1868]. 24.7 x 17.7cm volume of design patterns string bound fukuro toji. Hand printed sample stencil sample book assembled by a dyeing house in Kyoto. A total of 507 monochrome designs, from single to multiple designs per page, each with a stamped number, many labeled with Japanese handwritten text. A few designs have blue accents and a few have brown, otherwise monochrome. Design changes... Read More
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Ehon Kaikei Zan (Jyō) 絵本會稽山 上
Ehon Kaikei Zan (Jyō) 絵本會稽山 上. 22 x 15.5cm book string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Decorated front and rear wrappers with title slip on left hand side of front wrapper. 5 cho, and an initial, unnumbered cho, of color woodcuts and Japanese text. The final cho is pasted down onto the inside rear wrapper. The character Take/ Bu 武 (warrior or military) is printed on the hashira. A fascinating and early example of Kappazuri Hanga 合羽摺版画, which starts with a woodblock... Read More
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![10 Ise Katagami Paper Stencils [型紙]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/276/860/1474860276.0.l.jpg)
10 Ise Katagami Paper Stencils [型紙]
10 Ise Katagami Paper Stencils [型紙]. [Japan]. [Taisho Period]. Set of 10 intricate katagami 型紙 paper stencils that vary in size. 2 large stencils are approx. 41.5 x 41.5cm, 4 medium size stencils are approx. 30 x 40.5cm and 4 small stencils are approx. 15.5 x 22cm. All are in a shade of brown and are Japanese katagami paper stencils in an abstract, floral or botanical design. The stencils are made from layers of washi 和紙 (traditional Japanese handmade... Read More
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![Kōrin Hyakuzu Kōhen 光琳百図後編 [One Hundred Designs by Kōrin, 2nd Series], 2 vols in 1](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/458/228/1473228458.0.l.0.jpg)
Kōrin Hyakuzu Kōhen 光琳百図後編 [One Hundred Designs by Kōrin, 2nd Series], 2 vols in 1
Kōrin Hyakuzu Kōhen 光琳百図後編 [One Hundred Designs by Kōrin, 2nd Series], 2 vols in 1. Suzuki Ki-itsu 鈴木其一 and Sakai Hō-Itsu 酒井抱一, editors. Bunsei 9 [1826]. 2 books in 1 volume 25.5 x 18cm string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji with tan decorated wrappers with silver mica. 37 cho of original monochrome woodblock prints, double-page, single-page and multiple per page, with preliminary text and afterword in Japanese. Cho 1-20 comprise the first book and cho 21-37 the second book. (Cho numbers from... Read More
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Kodomo No Kuni. コドモノクニ. Vol. 16 #11 第十六巻 第十一號
1937. Kodomo No Kuni. コドモノクニ. Vol. 16 #11 第十六巻 第十一號. Showa 12 [1937]. Tokyo. Tokyosha.25 x 25.5cm large-format children’s full color illustrated magazine published in Japan from 1922 to 1944. Japanese text with hiragana, katakana, and furigana. Illustrated stories for children, many double-page, and a 6-page educational section for parents. Editor Takei Takeo was a seminal figure in “The Land of Children” and his wide contacts throughout the artistic and literary worlds ensured that the magazine was the... Read More
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![[Emaki Painted Handscroll 絵巻 of Makura Zōshi 枕草子 by Sei Shonagon 清少納言] Izeri Sosui, artist](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/116/059/1119059116.0.l.jpg)
[Emaki Painted Handscroll 絵巻 of Makura Zōshi 枕草子 by Sei Shonagon 清少納言] Izeri Sosui, artist
[Emaki Painted Handscroll 絵巻 of Makura Zōshi 枕草子 by Sei Shonagon 清少納言] Izeri Sosui, artist c. Early 20th C [Emaki Painted Handscroll 絵巻 of Makura Zōshi 枕草子 by Sei Shonagon 清少納言 ] Very long (approximately 33 feet long and 10 3/4 inches tall) black and white painted and calligraphed illustrated version of this classic Heian era literary work, the Pillow Book. The original work was finished about 1002 after the author had spent years... Read More
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PHARMACOPEIA NOSOCOMII REGII EDINBURGENSIS
1795. PHARMACOPEIA NOSOCOMII REGII EDINBURGENSIS [The Medications used in the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary]. Edinburgh, 1795. 12mo. vi,63pp. This pharmacopeia is divided into three parts: a list of "simples" (single substances, mostly herbs), a list of mixed medications with recipes, and dosage ("posologia") instructions. The introduction gives weights, and cautions the practitioner against dispensing without careful measurement. The Royal Infirmary was founded in 1729, and is the oldest "voluntary (private non-profit) hospital" in Scotland. Tree-calf; front board and blank pulling... Read More
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![Ōsaka Jyō Hakkei 大阪城八景 [8 Views of Osaka Castle]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/687/195/248195687.0.l.2.jpg)
Ōsaka Jyō Hakkei 大阪城八景 [8 Views of Osaka Castle]
19. Ōsaka Jyō Hakkei 大阪城八景 [8 Views of Osaka Castle] [Woodblock Album]. Oblong orihon folio 25 x 35 cm, in stiff silk-covered boards with a printed paper title label. Interspersed with Japanese text is a group of interesting original color woodcuts depicting traditional views of Osaka Castle during the early 17th century from various precincts of the city. One may only say that Osaka has changed in the interim. Appears to be a prewar production. Osaka Castle was... Read More
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![[Matchbook Label Album] [Rinpyō 燐票]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/511/703/1464703511.0.l.jpg)
[Matchbook Label Album] [Rinpyō 燐票]
1915. [Matchbook Label Album] [Rinpyō 燐票]. Taisho, Showa era. 1915-early post-War. 18.2 x 25.5cm orihon folding album with floral fabric-covered boards and color printed label on front board. Cover label has a design of Osaka Castle with Japanese text (大禮記念事業) that is the name of an Osaka commemorative event that could b referring to the restoration of the main tower of Osaka castle that was c. 1931. Color labels with Japanese and English text are laid down on... Read More
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Onnakunjyōhōki 女訓重宝記
Onnakunjyōhōki 女訓重宝記 early 1700s? Osaka. Publ by Morita Shōtarō 毛利田庄太朗 2 vols in one, string bound in fukuro toji 26 x 18cm with modern brushed title slip and housed in a modern chitsu with clasps 26 x 19cm. 7cm margin at the top throughout. 44 cho with black and white original woodblock prints, two hand-colored, and Japanese text. Recent title slip in Japanese text laid in. Onnakunjyōhōki 女訓重宝記 is a type of Jyoshiyō Ōraimono 女子用往来物, or instruction manual for... Read More
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![Pikaso Sobyōshū ピカソ素描集 [Picasso Drawing Collection]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/101/941/1461941101.0.l.jpg)
Pikaso Sobyōshū ピカソ素描集 [Picasso Drawing Collection]
Pikaso Sobyōshū ピカソ素描集 [Picasso Drawing Collection] - Atelier Magazine 13 #7 アトリエ 第十三巻 第七号 (with purple dust jacket). Tokyo. Atelier Shahan アトリエ社版. June, Showa 11, 1936. 26 x 19cm Atelier magazine with purple dust covers with a reproduced black and white drawing of a partial profile. Beige front wrappers with the title ‘Picasso” in purple at the top and “54 Dessins アトリエ社版” in dark green at the bottom. Vol 13 Issue 5 of Atelier magazine アトリエ published by... Read More
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![[Single sheet woodblock printed suribotoke 摺仏 of 3 standing 11-faced Kannon 十一面観音] [Buddhist image]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/892/003/1529003892.0.l.jpg)
[Single sheet woodblock printed suribotoke 摺仏 of 3 standing 11-faced Kannon 十一面観音] [Buddhist image]
[Single sheet woodblock printed suribotoke 摺仏 of 3 standing 11-faced Kannon 十一面観音] [Buddhist image] [late 12th - Early 13th Century] Single sheet woodblock printed suribotoke 摺仏 of 3 standing Kannon 観音 figures printed from a hangi 版木 woodblock. Sheet is approx 25.5 x 36.5cm and each standing figure is approx 23.2 centimeters tall. There are 3 full images with a partial image to the left. The right arm is bent upwards with the hand raised and the... Read More
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Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 25. Chin Chin Kobakama
1903. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No. 25. Chin Chin Kobakama. Lafcadio Hearn, translator.T. Hasegawa (Hasegawa Takejirō 長谷川武次郎), publisher. Meiji 36 [1903]. 19.2 x 13.9cm crepe paper book, stab-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji. [10] cho, including introductory notes by the translator. Colophon in Japanese on the inside rear wrapper with the date Meiji 36 [1903] gives the Hasegawa publisher address as 17 Kami Negishi. [10] pages with woodcuts on the front and rear inside wrappers. Colorful and detailed woodblock prints and... Read More
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![Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]. Baichiku Rangiku 梅竹蘭菊 [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/396/880/1617880396.0.l.jpg)
Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]. Baichiku Rangiku 梅竹蘭菊 [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]
Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum]. Baichiku Rangiku 梅竹蘭菊 [Album of Plum, Bamboo, Orchid and Chrysanthemum] Kyoto 1710 A single volume 28. 1 x 19. 4cm string-bound, Japanese style fukuro-toji with the original dark blue-green wrappers and the original printed paper title label. [52] cho of preliminary text followed by original, black and white woodblock prints of the 4 types of botanicals in the title, with Japanese text within the woodcuts. Baichiku Rangiku [Album of Plum, Bamboo,... Read More
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![[Matchbox label and matchbox label design collection - rinpyō 燐票 ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/453/228/1473228453.0.l.jpg)
[Matchbox label and matchbox label design collection - rinpyō 燐票 ]
195. [Matchbox label and matchbox label design collection - rinpyō 燐票 ] C. 1950s-1960s 99 loose matchbox and matchbook labels (rinpyō 燐票) backed with bamboo or other lightweight wood. Colorful illustrations advertise a range of businesses, including Western style clothing shop Hashimoto, Marutama pachinko parlor, Hato Tokkyū はと特急 [Dove/Pigeon Express], Kyowa, Mitsubishi and Dai-Ichi Banks. Also included is a matchbook label for Hotel New Nagoya ホテルニューナゴヤ, which opened in 1956 and thirteen years later changed its name to... Read More
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