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JAPAN. 7 titles:
13 – 23 June 2023, 12:00 EDT
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7 titles:
1. [JAPANESE TEXTILES.] Yama no kasuri (and) Yama no iro (Kasuri from Mountains and Colors of Mountains). N.p, c. 1930. 2 volumes. 4to. 30 color plates on 27 leaves, tissue guards. Publisher's boards. Light insect damage to volume 2 covers, light wear. Sample volumes for commercial katsuri textile production.
2. INAGAKI, HANZO. Mizushi/kurodana no maki ken kodogu. N.p.: 1816. Tall 8vo. 24-page manuscript and watercolor booklet. Embossed dark blue wrappers with calligraphic strip on front cover, bound with string; folding case with bone clasps. Created in 1816 by Hanzo Inagaki (whose name appears in a red seal on the colophon), copying an earlier inventory of furniture in a samurai household.
3. SALWEY, CHARLOTTE M. Fans of Japan. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1894. 4to. 10 Chromolithographic plates. Publisher's decorative cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. First edition of the first book on Japanese fans published in any language.
4. MINKO, TACHIBANA, illustrator. Saiga shokunin burui (Various Classes of Craftsmen). Tokyo: 1916. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original gray-blue wrappers stamped with geometric patterns. Rubbed, some binding threads missing. Reprint of the original 1771 edition, listing a variety of trades with illustrations of craftsmen and craftswomen.
5. KORIN, FURUYA. Kyugi sohshoku juuroku-shiki zufu (Decorations for Traditional Ceremonies). Kyoto: Geijutsu-do, 1933. Oblong 4to. 27 wood block plates, some double page, hinged together in Japanese accordion-style binding. Patterned silk-covered boards with calligraphic labels. Slightly soiled, darkening to edges of silk covers. Originally printed in 1903 by Kyoto Bijutsu Kyokai.
6. KUNIYOSHI, UTAGAWA. Seichi grishi den (Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai). Tokyo: 1917. 4to. 50 color woodblock plates. Publisher's decorative wrappers. Minor wear and soiling. Facsimile re-print of a work originally published in 1847-1848.
7. FUJIMOTO, TOBIN (JOKOH SEGAWA). Daihi myochi darumajiku Edo: 1849. 6 volumes. 8vo. Woodblock illustrations by Toyoshige (Utagawa Toyokuni II). Some wear and creasing, colors bright. Three 2-volume sets, of an original four, in a genre known as Kusazoshi, a form of popular fiction in the Edo and Meiji periods.
1. [JAPANESE TEXTILES.] Yama no kasuri (and) Yama no iro (Kasuri from Mountains and Colors of Mountains). N.p, c. 1930. 2 volumes. 4to. 30 color plates on 27 leaves, tissue guards. Publisher's boards. Light insect damage to volume 2 covers, light wear. Sample volumes for commercial katsuri textile production.
2. INAGAKI, HANZO. Mizushi/kurodana no maki ken kodogu. N.p.: 1816. Tall 8vo. 24-page manuscript and watercolor booklet. Embossed dark blue wrappers with calligraphic strip on front cover, bound with string; folding case with bone clasps. Created in 1816 by Hanzo Inagaki (whose name appears in a red seal on the colophon), copying an earlier inventory of furniture in a samurai household.
3. SALWEY, CHARLOTTE M. Fans of Japan. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1894. 4to. 10 Chromolithographic plates. Publisher's decorative cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. First edition of the first book on Japanese fans published in any language.
4. MINKO, TACHIBANA, illustrator. Saiga shokunin burui (Various Classes of Craftsmen). Tokyo: 1916. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original gray-blue wrappers stamped with geometric patterns. Rubbed, some binding threads missing. Reprint of the original 1771 edition, listing a variety of trades with illustrations of craftsmen and craftswomen.
5. KORIN, FURUYA. Kyugi sohshoku juuroku-shiki zufu (Decorations for Traditional Ceremonies). Kyoto: Geijutsu-do, 1933. Oblong 4to. 27 wood block plates, some double page, hinged together in Japanese accordion-style binding. Patterned silk-covered boards with calligraphic labels. Slightly soiled, darkening to edges of silk covers. Originally printed in 1903 by Kyoto Bijutsu Kyokai.
6. KUNIYOSHI, UTAGAWA. Seichi grishi den (Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai). Tokyo: 1917. 4to. 50 color woodblock plates. Publisher's decorative wrappers. Minor wear and soiling. Facsimile re-print of a work originally published in 1847-1848.
7. FUJIMOTO, TOBIN (JOKOH SEGAWA). Daihi myochi darumajiku Edo: 1849. 6 volumes. 8vo. Woodblock illustrations by Toyoshige (Utagawa Toyokuni II). Some wear and creasing, colors bright. Three 2-volume sets, of an original four, in a genre known as Kusazoshi, a form of popular fiction in the Edo and Meiji periods.