CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS
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Title: CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS
Author: Athur Davidson Ficke
Publisher: E.P. Publishing Limited
Illustrated: 456 pages with black and white illustrations
Condition: Very good - fading on the spine of the dust jacket
UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI
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Author: Springfield Museum of Fine Arts
Publisher: Springfield Library and Museums Association
Printer: The Pioneer Valley Printing Company
Illustrated: An exhibition of the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi based on the Raymond A Bidwell Collection of Japanese Prints at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts Springfield, Massachussets, 1980.
Condition: Very good condition
UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI
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Publisher: Springfield Library and Museums Association
Printer: The Pioneer Valley Printing Company
Illustrated: An exhibition of the work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi based on the Raymond A Bidwell Collection of Japanese Prints at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts Springfield, Massachussets, 1980.
Condition: Excellent inside, some soiling on cover
THE WOODBLOCK PRINTS OF UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI
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Title: THE WOODBLOCK PRINTS OF UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI
Inset: FROM THE BIDWELL COLLECTION MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
Publisher: Vassar College Art Gallery
Illustrated: 56 prints in black and white
Condition: Good, slight wear on cover
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 WAY OF THE SAMURAI
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This intriguing portrait of an alien world captures the varying moods of medieval Japan.
Title: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
Publisher: Orbis Publishing Limited, London
Printer: Officine Grafiche
Condition: Very Good, dust jacket has slight tear on corner and top edges
THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
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This intriguing portrait of an alien world captures the varying moods of medieval Japan.
Title: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
Publisher: Galley Press, Singapore & Orbis Publishing
Printer: Toppan Printing Co.
HIROSADA, OSAKA PRINTMAKER
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Title: HIROSADA, OSAKA PRINTMAKER
Publisher: The University Art Museum, California State University
Illustrated: 130 pages with black and white and color reproductions
IMPRESSIONS
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Inset: THE JOURNAL OF THE UKIYO-E SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Publisher: Friesens Printers
Editor: Henry D. Smith II
Illustrated: 104 pages with 11 color illustrations and 55 black and white illustrations
JAPANESE GRAPHIC ART
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Title: JAPANESE GRAPHIC ART
Publisher: Octopus Books Limited
Illustrated: 113 color and black and white plates
Condition: Good condition, slight tear of the dust jacket
JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
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Title: JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS
Inset: A CATALOGUE OF THE MARY A. AINSWORTH COLLECTION
Publisher: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Printer: Indiana University Press
Illustrated: 270 pages of color and black and white
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
HIROSHIGE, MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E
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This volume presents sixty-seven prints of Hiroshige's Japan compiled from all the great series and famous views that the artist designed.
Title: HIROSHIGE, MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E
Author: Muneshige Narazaki
Publisher: Kodansha Interantional, Ltd.
Condition: Very Good to excellent
HIROSHIGE, MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E, THE 53 STATIONS OF THE TOKAID
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This is the first book to present selected masterpieces from three other Tokaido series by Hiroshige, alongside the original fifty-five prints published by Hoeido, all in full color.
Title: HIROSHIGE, MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E, THE 53 STATIONS OF THE TOKAIDO
Author: Muneshige Narazaki
Publisher: Kodansha Interantional, Ltd.
BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS
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Title: BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS
Author: Victoria Daschkevich-Purto
Dated: April 29 - May 18, 1982
Publisher: Godwin-Ternbach Museum Queens College Flushing, N.Y.
Illustrated: 28 Black and White Illustrations
Misc: Exhibit made possible by a grant from National Endowment for the Arts
HIROSHIGE
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Inset: GREAT JAPANESE ART
Publisher: Kodansha International, Ltd.
Medium: Book (hardcover) with dust jacket
Illustrated: 48 pages mostly in color with some b&w
HIROSHIGE, BIRDS & FLOWERS
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This edition includes a selection of the finest examples of Hiroshige's bird and flower prints from the renowned Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, now housed at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
Title: HIROSHIGE, BIRDS & FLOWERS
Author: Intro. by Cynthea J. Bogel. Commentaries by Israel Goldman
Dated: 1988 First Edition
Publisher: George Braziller, Inc.
Illustrated: 192 pages, 91 color plates
Condition: Very Good, dust jacket has slight wear on edges
HIROSHIGE, AN EXHIBITION OF SELECTED PRINTS AND ILLUSTRATED BOOK
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The Hiroshige Exhibition pays tribute to this master artist who in his graphic works has captured with consummate skill the essence of the scenic and poetic beauty of Japan.
Title: HIROSHIGE, AN EXHIBITION OF SELECTED PRINTS AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Author: The Ukiyo-e Society of America
Publisher: White Bros., Ltd.
Condition: Some pen marks and slight creasing on cover. Sold "as is"
ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO
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In this series Hiroshige has shown Edo (now Tokyo), then the biggest city in the world, in many moods, with the nuances of change brought about by rain, show, mists, clouds and the moon; in this way he has suggested the moods and feelings of people who lived in the city.
Title: ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO
Author: Hiroshige Utagawa
Publisher: The Tokai Bank Foundation
Printer: The Mitsumura Printing Co., Ltd.
Illustrated: 119 color illustrations
Misc: Includes entire 100 views of Edo series, table of contents and postumous portrait of Hiroshige himself.
TOKAIDO I ADVENTURES ON THE ROAD IN OLD JAPAAN
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Calaogue Essays coordinated by the Spencer Museum of Art
Title: TOKAIDO I ADVENTURES ON THE ROAD IN OLD JAPAAN
Author: edited by Stephen Addiss
Illustrated: 120 pages of color and black & white images and essays
Condition: good, with some sun fading on cover
HIROSHIGE ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO
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Title: HIROSHIGE ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO
Author: Introductory Essays by Henry D. Smith II and Amy G. Poster
Dated: First Edition 1986
Publisher: George Braziller, Inc.
Illustrated: 256 pages with 119 color plates
Condition: book is excellent - dust cover has small tears
Misc: This edition is printed in Japan and has been reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum to insure maximum fidelity to the original prints. It is completed by a supplementary design and table of contents.
HOKUSAI AND HIROSHIGE
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It is our hope that this slim volume will serve to reveal some little-known facets of these masters' lives and work, while at the same time clarifying th essential humanity, the basic artistic homogeneity, that coexisted even between such diverse personalities as Hokusai and Hiroshige
Title: HOKUSAI AND HIROSHIGE
Illustrated: Black & White & Color illustrations
SAKAI COLLECTION OF HIROSHIGE AND HOKUSAI
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Title: SAKAI COLLECTION OF HIROSHIGE AND HOKUSAI
Inset: FROM "PLACES OF INTEREST" BY HIROSHIGE AND "PICTURES FROM ONE HUNDRED TANKA POEMS" BY HOKUSAI
Publisher: Okayama Art Museum
Illustrated: 85 color illustrations
Condition: Good, some minor wear on cover
A BOOKLET OF PAINTINGS DRAWN WITH ONE STROKE OF THE BRUSH
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Title: A BOOKLET OF PAINTINGS DRAWN WITH ONE STROKE OF THE BRUSH
Inset: THE LATE KATUSHIKA HOKUSAI
Series: HOKUSAI MANGA (MISCELLANEOUS ILLUSTRATIONS)
Printer: Yamada Shinzaburou
Condition: Very Good - slight crease on back binding
Misc: 28 double-sided (folded) leaves with 56 pages of colored print studies in paper-back string binding
HOKUSAI, ONE HUNDRED POETS
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Editor Peter Morse examines the series within Hokusai's oeuvre as a whole, as well as explains the importance of the "One Hundred Poems" anthology within Japanese cultural life.
Title: HOKUSAI, ONE HUNDRED POETS
Publisher: George Braziller, Inc.
Printer: Dai Nippon Printing
Illustrated: 222 pages of black & white and color images
Condition: book is excellent - dust cover has small tears
HOKUSAI
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Publisher: Spring Art Book
Illustrated: 48 pages of color illustrations
Condition: Very good, cover shows very slight wear
Misc: Hard cover with elaboratly sewn spine, embossed, cover latches with ivory looking pins
JAPAN A HISTORY IN ART
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Title: JAPAN A HISTORY IN ART
Inset: INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF JAPAN BY MARIUS B. JANSEN & INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF JAPAN BY NAGATAKE ASANO DIRECTOR TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Illustrated: 295 pages of color pictures and illustrations and essays
Condition: Very Good, a couple of loose index pages
CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS
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Title: CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS
Author: Arthur Davison Ficke
Publisher: EP Publishing Ltd. British Book Centre, Inc.
Illustrated: 448 pages with 56 black and white illustrations
Condition: Very good, cover shows slight wear and fading on the spine
UTAMARO
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Inset: GREAT JAPANESE ART
Author: Tadashi Kobayashi
Publisher: Kodansha International, Ltd.
Medium: Book (hardcover) with dust jacket
Illustrated: 48 pages mostly in color with some b&w
UTAMARO, ART OF THE EAST LIBRARY
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Title: UTAMARO, ART OF THE EAST LIBRARY
Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc.
Illustrated: 25 pages of text with 35 pages of color and black & white images, some of which are fold out pages
Condition: book is in excellent condition, dust jacket has some wear
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES OF TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM, UKIYO-E PRINTS
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Catalogue Of Tokyo National Museum
Title: ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES OF TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM, UKIYO-E PRINTS (1)
Publisher: Tokyo National Museum
Illustrated: Black & White Illustrations
Condition: good, dust cover has tears. Pages are in good condition
Misc: This book contains a large assortment of of early prints including many hosoban translated into English
THE JAPANESE PILLAR PRINT
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Title: THE JAPANESE PILLAR PRINT
Limited: Limited Edition: 338/1000
Publisher: Robert G. Sawers Publishing
Medium: Book (hardcover) with dust jacket
Illustrated: 389 pages in color and black & white
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON
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Title: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON
Author: Jan Fontein and Pratapaditya Pal
Publisher: New York Graphic Society
Illustrated: 195 pages including 137 illustrations 97 in color
Condition: dust jacet and cover have wear at edges. Pages are good
UKI
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Title: UKIYO-E IN THE LATTER PERIOD
Illustrated: 143 pages of 86 color & 102 black & White
UKIYO-E: GREAT JAPANESE ART
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This book presents a comprehensive survey of the history of ukiyo-e from its origins.
Title: UKIYO-E: GREAT JAPANESE ART
Author: Tadashi Kobayashi
Publisher: Kodansha Interantional, Ltd.
Medium: Book (hardcover) with dust jacket
Illustrated: 48 pages of full color illustrations
Condition: excellent, minor wear on dust jacket only
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Series: RICCAR ART MUSEUM
Medium: book (soft cover) In Japanese & English
Illustrated: 261 pages with 8 color and 127 black and white illustrations
EXHIBITION OF UKIYO-E BY IPPITSUSAI BUNCHO
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Title: EXHIBITION OF UKIYO-E BY IPPITSUSAI BUNCHO
Publisher: Riccar Art Museum
Medium: book (hard cover)
Illustrated: 159 pages with 9 color and 146 black and white illustrations
Condition: dust jacket has minor wear at top edge. Pages are good
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Title: ASPECTS OF UKIYO-E
Inset: WINZINGER COLLECTION OF UKIYO-E
Publisher: Riccar Art Museum
Medium: book (softcover) - In Japanese and English
Illustrated: 17 color and 140 b/w
EXHIBITION OF 100 SELECTED MASTERPIECES OF UKIYO-E
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Title: EXHIBITION OF 100 SELECTED MASTERPIECES OF UKIYO-E
Dated: 1980, First edition
Publisher: Riccar Art Museum
Printer: Dobi Insatsu, Japan
Medium: book (soft cover)
Illustrated: 117 pages of 16 color and 86 black and white prnits
Condition: excellent very small and slight wear in upper binding
Misc: In Japanese and English
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
ONE HUNDRED SELECTIONS OF KUNISADA
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Title: ONE HUNDRED SELECTIONS OF KUNISADA
Medium: Book (softcover), hand-bound with silk
Illustrated: 100 black & white illustrations (all depicting beauties)
Condition: Good, some fading on edge of cover, with wearing on dust-jacket
TU TZE-CHUN
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Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Translated by Dorothy Britton - Introduction by E.G. Seidensticker
Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd. Tokyo, Japan
Illustrated: 63 pages with 26 Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara
Misc: Story of Legend of Tu Tze-chun came to Japan from China
THE FLOATING WORLD
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Title: THE FLOATING WORLD
Illustrated: 403 pages with 68 color and black and white illustrations
Condition: good, some wear and tears on dust jacket, and very slight browning on first empty page only. Binding tight some
IMPRESSIONS
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Inset: THE JOURNAL OF THE UKIYO-E SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC.
Publisher: The Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc.
Editor: Henry D. Smith II
Illustrated: 58 black & white plates
SURIMONO
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Inset: PRIVATELY PUBLISHED JAPANESE PRINTS IN THE SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART
Publisher: Kodansha International, Ltd.
Medium: Book (hardcover) with cloth binding and dust jacket
Illustrated: 60 color, 268 b&w
UCHIYAMA SUSUMU'S COLLECTION
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Title: UCHIYAMA SUSUMU'S COLLECTION
Author: Narazaki Muneshige - Litt. D.
Illustrated: 303 b/w illustrations, mostly Ukiyo-e with some from Meiji Period
Condition: Good, worn dustcover
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.
SHARAKU
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Publisher: Kodansha International, ltd
Illustrated: 96 pages with 64 full-color illustrations
SHUNGA, ESSAY OF EROTIC ELEMENTS IN JAPANESE ART
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Shunga book, Erotic Art Book
Title: SHUNGA, ESSAY OF EROTIC ELEMENTS IN JAPANESE ART
Inset: ESSAY OF EROTIC ELEMENTS IN JAPANESE ART
Dated: 1964 - First Edition
Publisher: Nagel Publishers, Geneva - Paris - Hamburg
Medium: Book (hardcover) - English
Illustrated: 158 pages with 55 color, 21 sepia (some tipped in) & 37 black & white
Condition: Very good, slight wear on dust jacket
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
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
THE GIFTED VENUS BY HOKUSAI
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Title: THE GIFTED VENUS BY HOKUSAI
Inset: A PICTURE BOOK SERIES OF THE SHUNGA 1
Author: Katsushika Hokusai
Publisher: Sei Sei Doh USA, Inc.
Illustrated: Black and white and color illustrations
Condition: Very Good - dust jacket has very slight wear
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
JAPAN ISCHE TAGE (JAPANESE DAYS)
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Title: JAPAN ISCHE TAGE (JAPANESE DAYS)
Inset: IN INGELHEIM AM RHEIN, HOLZSCHNITTE UKIYO-E
Author: Sammlung Prof. Dr. Otto Riese
Printer: Printed in Switzerland
Medium: Book (hardcover) - in German
Illustrated: 186 pages with 158 b/w and 7 color illustrations
Condition: Very Good - Plastic dust jacket (small tear on back)
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