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A JAPANESE MISCELLANY, STRANGE STORIES, FOLKLORE GLEANINS, STUDI
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The name of Lafcadio Hearn has long been synonymous with Japan, and even after all these years he yet remains the foremost interpreter of Japan to the Western world.
Title: A JAPANESE MISCELLANY, STRANGE STORIES, FOLKLORE GLEANINS, STUDIES HERE AND THERE
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Co.
Condition: excellent, near perfect
CHUSHINGURA, THE TREASURY OF LOYAL RETAINERS
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Title: CHUSHINGURA, THE TREASURY OF LOYAL RETAINERS
Author: Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, and Namiki Senryu Translated by Donald Keene
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Medium: Book (hardcover) - with onion skin cover
Misc: This is the wonderful story of the 47 Ronin, one of the most famous in Japan.
THE MALE JOURNEY IN JAPANESE PRINTS
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in this book, Roger Keyes gathers together nearly three hundred woodblock prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth centrues to re-create the moments in a Japanese male's journey through life.
Title: THE MALE JOURNEY IN JAPANESE PRINTS
Publisher: University of California Press
THE MARTIAL ARTS, SWORDSMANSHIP, KENDO, AIKIDO, JUDO, KARATE
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in the case of each of the martial arts described, the author has visited the schools of Japan and talked with their grand masters.
Title: THE MARTIAL ARTS, SWORDSMANSHIP, KENDO, AIKIDO, JUDO, KARATE
Publisher: Octopus Books Limited
Illustrated: 250 illustrations in color and 150 illustrations in black & white
Condition: Very Good, dust jacket has slight wear on edges
FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS FROM JAPAN
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Title: FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS FROM JAPAN
Author: kasumi teshigawara
Publisher: Kodansha Interantional, Ltd.
Medium: book (soft cover)
Illustrated: 128 pages with 49 color and 89 black and white illustrations
Condition: Slight wear on cover, pages good condition
JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
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Title: JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Publisher: Victoria and Albert Museum
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd.
Medium: book (soft cover)
Illustrated: 60 pages with 60 color illustrations and one black and white
Condition: good, with some sun fading on cover
JAPANESE PRINTS FROM THE EARLY MASTERS TO THE MODERN
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Title: JAPANESE PRINTS FROM THE EARLY MASTERS TO THE MODERN
Author: James A. Michener with Notes on the Prints by Richard Lane
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company
Illustrated: 287 pages of color and black & white illustrations
Condition: Good with slight wear on dust jacket, in original hard cover
SUMO AND THE WOODBLOCK PRINT MASTERS
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While the sumo print remains one of the most sought-after and intriguing of all woodcuts, Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters is the first book devoted entirely to this fascinating subgenre.
Title: SUMO AND THE WOODBLOCK PRINT MASTERS
Author: Lawrence Bickford with foreward by Jack Hillier
Dated: First Edition 1994
Publisher: Kodansha Interantional, Ltd.
Illustrated: 160 pages of color and black & white illustrations
DIALOGUE IN ART - JAPAN AND THE WEST
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Title: DIALOGUE IN ART - JAPAN AND THE WEST
Author: Chisaburoh F. Yamada
Dated: 1976, first Edition
Publisher: Kodansha Interantional, Ltd.
Medium: Book (hardcover) - with dust jacket
Condition: Very good, cover shows slight wear
THE NOH DRAMA - TEN PLAYS FROM THE JAPANESE
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Title: THE NOH DRAMA - TEN PLAYS FROM THE JAPANESE
Series: UNESCO COLLECTION OF REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: JAPANESE SERIES
Author: Jacket design by K. Tomoda
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company
Medium: book (hard cover) - with dust jacket
Illustrated: 192 pages with a few black and white illustrations
Condition: slight wrinkles on bottome & top edge of dust jacket
NETSUKE - A GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS
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Title: NETSUKE - A GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS
Author: Mary Louise O'Brien
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company Inc.
Medium: Book (hardcover) with dust jacket
Illustrated: 245 pages with 145 color and black & white illustrations
THE NETSUKE HANDBOOK OF UEDA REIKICHI
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Title: THE NETSUKE HANDBOOK OF UEDA REIKICHI
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company Inc.
Medium: Book (hardcover) with dust jacket
Illustrated: 325 pages with 24 color and 226 black and white illustrations
Condition: New - (dust jacket has some spots on it)
Item #: book (hardcover) with dust jacket
CONTEMPORARY NETSUKE
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Title: CONTEMPORARY NETSUKE
Inset: WITH FOREWORD BY HANS CONRIED
Dated: 1977 - first edition
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company Inc.
Medium: Book (hardcover) with dust jacket
Illustrated: 261 pages with 180 color and 51 black and white illustrations
NETSUKE
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Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company Inc.
Illustrated: 185 pages with 9 color and 198 black & white illustrations
THE JAPANESE ART OF STONE APPRECIATION
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Title: THE JAPANESE ART OF STONE APPRECIATION
Inset: SUISEKI AND ITS USE WITH BONSAI
Author: Vincent T. Covello and Yuji Yoshimura
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.
Medium: Book (hardcover) with dust jacket
Illustrated: 165 pages in color and black & white
JAPANESE ART SIGNATURES
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Title: JAPANESE ART SIGNATURES
Inset: A HANDBOOK AND PRACTICAL GUIDE
Author: James Self and Nobuko Hirose
Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
Misc: An easy to use aid for reading Japanese art signatures.
EROTIC ART OF THE EAST
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Title: EROTIC ART OF THE EAST
Inset: INTRODUCTION BY ALEX COMFORT
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Size: 9" x 11 3/8" x 1 1/4
Illustrated: 380 pages of b/w & 32 Color pictures
EROTIC ART 2
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Author: Drs. Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen
Dated: 1970 - First Printing
Publisher: Grove Press inc., New York
Illustrated: 270 pages with b/w & few color illustrations
INDIAN PAINTING
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Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Illustrated: 383 pages with 315 illustrationsm inclucing 75 plates in full color
THE EMPEROR'S ALBUM
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Title: THE EMPEROR'S ALBUM
Author: Stewart Cary Welch, Annemarie Schimmel, Marie Swietochowski, Wheeler Thackston
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
TREASURES OF ASIA. PAINTING OF INDIA
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Title: TREASURES OF ASIA. PAINTING OF INDIA
Author: Douglas Barrett, Basil Gray
Publisher: Editions d'Art Albert Skira
Illustrated: 213 pages with 82 illustrations in full color
Condition: Very Good - dust jacket has some browning
THE LITTLE TREASURY OF ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE, ONE POEM EACH
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Title: THE LITTLE TREASURY OF ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE, ONE POEM EACH
Inset: COMPILED BY FUJIWARA NO SADAIE (1162-1241) --TRANSLATED BY TOM GALT
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Medium: book (soft cover) - In Japanese & English
Illustrated: 106 pages = In Japanese & English (no illustrations)
Condition: book is in good condition, binding is tight. Office Copy written on cover
JAPANESE EROTISM
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Author: Bernard Soulie - Translated by Evelyn Rossiter
Publisher: Production Liber SA
Printer: Industria Grafica SA
Illustrated: 96 pages with 77 color illustrations
EROTIC ART OF THE EAST
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Title: EROTIC ART OF THE EAST
Inset: INTRODUCTION BY ALEX COMFORT
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Size: 9" x 11 3/8" x 1 1/4
Condition: good, cover torn
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EROTIC ART - VOLUMES 1 AND 2
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Title: THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EROTIC ART - VOLUMES 1 AND 2
Author: Drs. Phyllis and Eberhard Kronihausen
Publisher: Bell Publishing Company
Illustrated: 270 pages with 81 color and 781 black and white pictures
Condition: excellent, very slight wear on dust jacket
Misc: With introductory essays & special report on the first international exhibition of erotic art
STUDIES IN EROTIC ART
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Title: STUDIES IN EROTIC ART
Inset: SPONSORED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR SEX RESEARCH, FOUNDED BY ALFRED C. KINSEY
Series: A VOLUME IN THE SERIES STUDIES IN SEX AND SOCIETY
Author: Theadore Bowie, Otto J. Brendel, Paul H. Gebhard, Robert Rosenblum, Leo Steinberg
Publisher: Basic Books Inc. N.Y. & London
Illustrated: 395 pages, 35 black & White
Misc: This book is an assortment of erotic art from all cultures
JAPANESE EROTIC ART AND THE LIFE OF THE COURTESAN
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the leading Jartists in eighteeth and nineteenth century Japan illustrated the lives and activities of the courtesans.
Title: JAPANESE EROTIC ART AND THE LIFE OF THE COURTESAN
Illustrated: 41 color plates
Condition: Very Good, dust jacket has slight wear on edges
O SZTUCE JAPONII
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Publisher: Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa
Printer: Printed in Poland
Medium: Book (hardcover) - Written in Polish
Illustrated: 201 pages with black & white illustrations
Condition: very good, slight wear on corners of dust jacke. Interior is in excellent condition
Misc: Prints, paintings sculpture, statues, sand gardens, houses, kimono
DE JAPANISCH HOLZSCHNITT
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Title: DE JAPANISCH HOLZSCHNITT
Publisher: R. Piper & Co. Verlag, Munchen
Medium: Book (hardcover) - in German
Illustrated: 125 pages with 75 black and white illustrations
Condition: some stains on spine and back of book cover and browning on only a few pages
OSTASIATISCHE HOLZSCHNITTE 1
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Title: OSTASIATISCHE HOLZSCHNITTE 1
Medium: book (soft cover) written in German
Illustrated: 88 pages with 19 black & white and 31 color illustrations and 6 additional separate triptychs
Condition: very good - slight wear on top of front cover
WAYS TO SHIVA
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Inset: LIFE AND RITUAL IN HINDU INDIA
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Illustrated: 95 pages in color and black & white
SULEYMANNAME
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Inset: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SULEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
Publisher: National Gallery of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
Medium: Book (hardcover) with dust jacket
Illustrated: 89 color and 41 b&w
Condition: Very Good, small tear on bottom of dust jacket