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England: Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Small amount of foxing on one preliminary page other wise spotless. Dust Jacket in clear mylar cover.
Etude sur la Poterie Blanche Fouillee dans la Ruine de L'Ancienne Capitale des Yin by Umehara, Sueji - 1932
by Umehara, Sueji
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Etude sur la Poterie Blanche Fouillee dans la Ruine de L'Ancienne Capitale des Yin
by Umehara, Sueji
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Kyoto, 1932. First edition 4to, pp.v, 6, [iv, 2, 75], 41 plates, 20 illustrations. Text in Japanese with summary in French. A very good copy, corners lightly bumped, slipcase.
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- Date Published 1932
- Keywords Ceramics
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Japanese Military and Civil Swords and Dirks
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Milan: Electa Architecture, 2005. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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Folio. Unpag. full-page plates (3 color with tissue guards). Japanese text. Pictorial boards with title on attached paper label, faded, lightly stained green cloth slipcase with bone clasps.Extra shipping and insurance required for this item.
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Sotheby Parke Bernet Publication LTD, New Jersey and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, New York, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (3 volumes with dust jacket in slipcase). Top edges gilt.; 34 x 25.5 cm.; 8.3 Kg.; 1034 pages with black and white and a few colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jackets and slipcase. Interior in very good condition.; Limited edition of 2,000 copies of which this is 793.; Among the arts of Japan, the colour print continues to exercise the strongest appeal to us in the West. The main reason for the present widespread and growing interest is the powerful design combined with the beauty of the colour harmonies of the prints. But there are also other reasons; they depict a Japan of the past now almost vanished, its culture, mores, annual events, legends and its history; and they also show the influence of the Japanese print on the evolution of modern Western art. In the last few years the most important event in the world of…
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A KALENDAR FROM JAP TOWN.
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Nims and Knight. Troy. New York. 1889. Calendar printed on 18 stiff sheets of card. (5.9 x 4.5 inches). Complete. Each leaf has a litho colour illustration depicting a scene from Japanese life, printed after fine water colours by J. Pauline Sunter. Twelve of the cards have the month dates printed to the side of the illustration. The lithography is by G. H Beuk & Co, New York. The cards are held together by two metal rings through punched holes at the top, and have a white silk cord, with tassles, threaded through. The cards are stiff white coated paper with silver edges. The front card has damage to the two holes and is now not attached but all others are firmly in place. The front cover is also a little dusty but generally the whole calendar is very good and features some very attractive illustrations. A rare item. No copies listed on Worldcat.
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Canvasism New Works (Signed with drawing)
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Tokyo: Seibu Art Forum , 1988. This is a near fine softcover copy with virtually no wear. Signed and with a drawing of a man's head on the front endpaper, with two word inscription. Very clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding firm. Text in English and Japanese. Essay by Yoshiaki Tono. 55 works in the exhibition, which consisted of paintings, drawings and sculpture. All works illustrated in color. 12" high X 9" wide, about 60 pages. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Signed by Artist.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.
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Tradition, Phase and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels (Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts)
by Linduff
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NEW hardbound isbn 0824032373 first edition and presumed first printing. IMPECCABLE PERFECT UNTOUCHED Suspect this was issued without a dust jacket. Doctprate study by Katheryn Linduff with 39 plates of charts, maps, and illustrationMy scanner produces shadows that chould not be there
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Waro Kishi.
by KISHI, Waro. With an introduction by Terence Riley
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Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gill, S.A., 1995. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers. Very fine. Text is in English and Spanish. A paperbound original. The first monograph in English on Waro Kishi.
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Shunsho, Ukiyo-e Series Volume 3
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Shueisha, Tokyo, 1974. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Fine Condition/Fine. Various, Shunsho, Ukiyo-e Series Volume 3, Tokyo: Shueisha, 1974.Large folio (17x12 inches or 43x31cm), pp. 144, printed cream-colored cloth boards quarter-bound in white cloth, slipcased, text in Japanese. Large color plates, some folding, plus explanatory text. Part of a 12-volume set, this book devoted exclusively to Shunsho.Condition of this book:Fine in near fine slipcase (soiling at top and bottom edges). Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). One volume of the 12-volume set. Text is in Japanese. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Japan; Japanese Language; Reference. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54631. . This book…
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Early 20th-century reprint of Utagawa's famous book on Japanese women's fashions originally published in 1802.Volume 1 only of the 2 volume set.With 25 full-color woodblock prints depicting 12 scenes over double pages with different classes of women, 23 pages of Japanese text.Includes woodcuts of noble courtiers under cherry blossom, samurai wives relaxing, concubines, merchant women, servants at bathhouse, dancers, laundress, nursemaid, etc.Condition: blue embossed paper boards scuffed and discolored, but interior clean and bright, woodcuts free of foxing. Traditional Yotsume Toji four-hole stab binding stitched on the right-margin. Toyokuni Utagawa (1769-1825), was a grand master ukiyo-e print designer and woodblock artist, known for his portraits of kabuki actors.
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ETUDE SUR LA POTERIE BLANCHE FOUILLEE DANS LA RUIN DE L'ANCIENNE CAPITALE DES YI
by UMEHARA, Sueji
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Kyoto 1932, Kyoto Institute. Blue cloth, very good, tall folio, 24 x 31.5 cm., 6p. Japanese and French text, in worn slipcase, 41 full page b. w. photos, map, very good, clean solid copy. FIRST & ONLY EDITION An excellent archaeological study of the pottery found at the sites, chards, t'ao te masks &c. With very good photos of the remains, site and area. Umehara, the premiere Japan- ese Sinologist explored much of China's archological sights before World War II. His works are reliable & highly valu- able records of the digs and findings. Always R A R E ! .
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The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture
by Lieberman, William S. [Introduction]
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New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 240 x 210 mm), 116 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Catalogue for a U.S. traveling exhibition of 46 Japanese artists. Short bios of each artist, along with black-and-white illustrations of their works. The catalogue also features 13 color illustrations at the beginning of the book. Introduction by the curator, William S. Lieberman. CONDITION: Light edge wear and soiling to wrappers, toning to page edges. Very Good.
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Sho Fukumoto Sketchbook 1986: Leda (Boxed Set)
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N. Nomura & Co., Ltd., 1986. Book. Like New. Boxed Set. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A hardcover book and a softcover book in a cloth-covered box, all in like-new condition. Clamshell box is covered in natural-covered linen with brown lettering to spine and brown facsimile signature on top. Hardcover with three-quarter charcoal-gray cloth with blue marbled (faux) boards; no text other than a tipped-in plate with title, etc. in English; pages are facsimile reproductions of the sketched art--b&w and color of Leda and Swan; no title on binding. Softcover is staplebound with blue cardstock cover with title etc. in English on front; approx. 27 pages; b&w photo frontispiece of artist; 7 plates of art; text in Japanese. Books are about 9-1/2" by 6-1/4". Box is 10-1/2" by 6-3/4"..
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Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden
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Book cover like new, slight wear at end caps - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.Jacket like new.
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The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly 1000 years ago, making it the oldest work on Japanese gardening; in fact, the oldest book on gardening in the world! In this edition of the Sakuteiki, the authors provide both an English-language translation of this classic work; and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening. A Japanese court noble wrote the Sakuteiki during the Heian period (794-1184). During this critical era in Japanese history cultural influences on poetry, clothing-and gardening-that had been imported from China and Korea over the previous centuries were reexamined and reinterpreted into their unique Japanese forms. The Sakuteiki contains the first systematic record of this new… Read More
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Shishi and Other Netsuke: The Collection of Harriet Szechenyi
by Rosemary Bandini
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- 9780953573301 / 0953573303
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Rosemary Bandini, London, 1999, Fine Hardcover / Near Fine Dustjacket, 174 pages, 8.75" x 11.25", slight edgewear on dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight. Collector Harriet Szechenyi concentrated on collecting "netsuke" of animals and mythical beings.
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Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers
by Hiroshige, Ando; introduction by Cynthea J. Bogel; commentaries on the plates by Israel Goldman; poetry translated by Alfred H. Marks
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NY: Braziller, 1988. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Braziller, 1988, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 14 1/2", 192pp., illustrated with 91 full color plates. Fine in near fine. price clipped dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. Folio.
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Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool.
by NARA, Yoshitomo
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New York: Asia Society Museum / Harry N. Abrams: 2010. First edition / First printing. Illustrated laminated boards in die-cut illustrated slipcase. Very fine in a very fine slipcase.
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Tsubasa Album De Reproductions 2 (Japanese Version)
by Clamp
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- 9784063647983 / 4063647986
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Kodansha, 2009. Paperback with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is in Japanese. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Very light scuffing along to top edges of the dust jacket. Small tear on the top right corner of the bottom black banner on the front cover. No markings on the inside of the book.Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Traditional Japanese Furniture: A Definitive Guide
by Kazuko Koizumi
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Kodansha International, 1986. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine DJ. Minor shelf and handling wear to DJ. Else Fine. Photo is of the copy at Barbed Wire Books.
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Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints From The Anne Van Biema Collection
by Ann Yonemura; Donald Keene; Andrew Gerstle; Elizabeth De Sabato Swinton; Joshua S. Mostow
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Both the book and dj are in 'as new' condition. It has . 10 unpaginated pages followed by 362 numbered pages. It was published to coincide with the exibition of the same name. A beautiful book with well over 100 color illustrations and even more in b&w. The book includes a series of essays on the historic, economic, and cultural environment of Edo period Japan and the collections focus on early Kabuki actor prints, including many by the artists Toyokuni and Kuniyoshi).Book will be priority mailed to any domestic address. International sale may incur additional charges.
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Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan 1580s-1680s
by LILLEHOJ, Elizabeth
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Leiden: Brill, 2011. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/near fine. Vol 2 in the series, Japanese Visual Culture. Tall 8vo. (25.5cm). Boards, lettered title to cover. In unclipped dust jacket. pp. 296. W/ 98 colour plates. Some faint edgewear to jacket, minor signs of use, a very sound, almost as new copy.
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