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Japanese Art Books & Ephemera
New Blades (Arami meizukushi) 新刃銘盡 (あらみめいずくし)
by HAKURYUSHI, Kanda
1721 Japanese Sword Katana Arami Meizukushi Illustrated Handwritten New Blades
An interesting Edo and Meiji woodblock-print of 'New Blades.' This collection is the stamping of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Edo period and is equivalent to the sword of the Meiji era and later called "modern sword.". It follows up on the older collections of blade writings which summarized the accumulated knowledge of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Muromachi period. After the... Read more about this item
An interesting Edo and Meiji woodblock-print of 'New Blades.' This collection is the stamping of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Edo period and is equivalent to the sword of the Meiji era and later called "modern sword.". It follows up on the older collections of blade writings which summarized the accumulated knowledge of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Muromachi period. After the... Read more about this item
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A$1,162.88
SAIGOKU SAN-JU^-SAN-SHO JUNREI EMAKI
by [SKETCHTOUR GENRE] NAKAZAWA Hiromitsu, artist
1946. [SKETCH TOUR GENRE] NAKAZAWA Hiromitsu, artist. SAIGOKU SAN-JU^-SAN-SHO JUNREI EMAKI. Kyoto, Kanao Bun'endo^, publisher. Sho^wa 21 [1946]. Oblong folio of o^ban size woodblock prints after designs by Hiromitsu, detailing the famous pilgrimage sites (and sights) in western Japan. The blocks were cut by Okada Seijiro^ and the printers were Nishimura Kumakichi and Takagi Kiyomitsu. This portfolio project was initially completed and printed in 1925. This edition, printed from the same blocks at the...
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A$4,418.92
English and Japanese Art: The Great English Masters, William Hogarth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Japanese Art
by SF.; Hutton, E.; Symons, A.; Binyon, L
London: International Art Pulbishing Company, 1900. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. International Art Pulbishing Company, circa 1900, no date stated. One of the first hundred copies. Hard Cover. Brown leather spine, grey parchment boards. Extremely scarce, Book measures 15 by 11, weighs over 6 lbs. .Original decorative tissues are intact. Cover has considerable shelfwear/ scuffing and moderate soiling. Spine is chipped at both ends. Pages are clean and unmarked, toned, Binding is a bit shaken, hinges are...
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A$1,874.86
Waro Kishi: Works and Projects.
by KISHI, Waro. With an essay by Masao Furuyama
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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A$542.68
SESSHU Published to Commemorate The 450th Anniversary of Sesshu's Death
by Sesshu
1956. Hard cover in original cloth. Text in Japanese. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 3/4", 9 pp. text in Japanese, 54 one sided sheets of plates on heavy satin stock, plus 2 sheets of 27 plates of signatures and seals used by Sesshu. Plates have captions in English. Red cloth with black titles and designs. Some soiling and fade to the cloth, minor wear at the tips and spine ends. Very good. Fine internally. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio.
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A$232.58
Japanese Flower Arrangement
by Seido Iwata
A beautifully designed and illustrated book on the art of Japanese flower arrangement, or Ikebana. Author Seido Iwata is both a master of the traditional art of Ikebana as well as a contemporary offshoot she pioneered at her School of Seki-So-Ryu (School of the Rocks and the Flowers). Cover design is by famed Franco-Japanese Modernist artist Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, the author's cousin.
No date, but probably published in the late 1950s, after the 1954 publication of a similar book by Iwata in Japan.... Read more about this item
No date, but probably published in the late 1950s, after the 1954 publication of a similar book by Iwata in Japan.... Read more about this item
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A$271.34
The Art of the Japanese Book (2 VOLUMES)
by Hillier, Jack
Sotheby's Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 1987 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; 2 Hardcover VOLUMES (with dust jackets) in slipcase.; 24.6 x 33.5 cm; 6.9 Kg; 1132 pages with colour and black and white illustrations throughout.; VOLUME I: 3.681 Kg, 608 pages; VOLUME II: 3.236 Kg, from page 609 to 1132.; Minor signs of wear on the slipcase and dust jackets. Interior as new.; It is surprising that so little of the great heritage of Japanese art in book form has been...
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A$415.55
Japan: Magazine of Overseas Travel 1927. 10 issues from March through December 1927
by [BEAUTIFUL NYK TRAVEL MAGAZINE]
San Francisco.: Nippon Yusen Kaisha. 1st Edition.. 1927.. Filled with countless black & white photographic images and striking cover art as well as numerous advertisements for hotels and passenger ships together with fashions of the era. In depth articles and commentary, and a focus on trans-pacific personalites. Each issue has 56pp. 31 x 23cm, original pictorial wrappers some with a mild vertical crease. Near fine copies. A loosely inserted card from New York's Japan Society states that this periodical,...
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A$1,600.00
Okimono: Japanese Porcelain Figures from the Edo Period
by Jorge Welsh (ed.); and Jörg, Professor Christiaan (introductory article)
Jorge Welsh Research and Publishing, 2022 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover.; 23.5 x 29.7 cm.; 1.9 Kg.; 256 pages with 229 colour and 4 black & white illustrations.; Limited edition of 400 copies.; Exibition catalogue dedicated to the theme of Japanese porcelain in the form of human and animal figures, mostly produced for the export market during the second half of the 17th and 18th centuries. The animals represented are usually found amongst Japanese iconography, whilst the...
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A$232.71
Ko-Sometsuke (two volume set in slipcase with carton box)
by Kawahara, Masahiko
Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd., Japan, 1977 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Japanese and English text.; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued) in slipcase with carton box.; 23 x 32 cm; 3.5 Kg; Colour illustrations throughout, each with caption in Japanese and English.; Used with signs of wear on the card box. Signs of wear on the hardcover cloth and slipcase. The characters on the spine of the slipcase spine and also on the spines of the hardcover cloth are faded. Interior in very good condition.;...
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A$1,745.31
Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting 1868-1968
by Conant, Ellen P
St Louis City Art Museum, 1995-11-01. First Edition Paperback. Paperback. Very Good. 11x9x1. Unmarked. Text appears to be free of highlighting, underlining or writing. Softcover shows some edge and shelf wear from normal use. No rips, tears or stains. 1995. First edition paperback, First Printing, Full Print Line Displayed. A currently OOP (out of print), uncommon, or hard to find book. Ships in box, quickly and with care.
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A$263.57
Japanese Military and Civil Swords and Dirks
by Fuller Richard; Gregory Ron
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.
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A$387.62
![Nogaku Komenshu: Onshi Kyoto Hakubutsukan Tokuubetsu Tenkan [Old Portrait Masks of the Noh Drama]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/153/732/1202732153.0.b.jpg)
Nogaku Komenshu: Onshi Kyoto Hakubutsukan Tokuubetsu Tenkan [Old Portrait Masks of the Noh Drama]
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.
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A$457.40
Figure Prints of Old Japan; A Pictorial Pageant Of Actors & Courtesans Of The Eighteenth Century
by Harold Stern
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. very good/very good. Book Club of California, 1959. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition of only 400.52 colored or tinted plates. Introduction by Harold Stern. Illustrated from original prints in the collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Reproductions printed recto only. Includes prints by Harunobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, Sharaku, Utamaro, Kaigetsudo, et al. Bright, clean and...
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A$348.86
Satsuma: Masterpieces from the world's important collections (limited edition with carton box)
by Lawrence, Louis
Dauphin Publishing Limited, London in co-operation with Spink & Son Ltd., 1991 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Japanese text; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket) with carton box; 23.5 x 30 cm; 1.750 Kg; 220 pages with colour illustrations. Includes fold outs of some of the pieces.; May show signs of long time storage and handling, namely the card box.; Satsuma is probably one of the best know names in the complex field of Japanese ceramics: yet surprisingly little has been published on...
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A$149.60
KIYONAGA: A Study of His Life and Works with a Portfolio of Plates in Color and Collotype (2 Vols.)
by Chie Hirano
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1939. 1st. Hardcover and large format folio. Still the best description of his life and work, supplemented with a large format folio with 138 quality reproductions of his work (printed in Japan). Published for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by The Harvard Univ. Press, 1939. Volume I is text, volume II is a portfolio of plates. Text volume viii, 545 pages, 30 cm. Hardcover. No dust jacket.as issued. Volume II, has all plates called for: 8 color and 138 collotype. 13-1/44"...
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A$1,356.69
Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection (COMPLETE 3 VOLUMES)
by Hillier, Jack
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...
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A$498.66
Self.
by MORIYAMA, Daido
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2015. Original black and white Type-C print signed by Daido Moriyama in gold ink on the front of the image it is tipped in. First edition / First printing. Limited edition. Number 437 of 500 copies. Metallic laminated boards. Very fine. The 90th publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series.
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A$232.58
Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
by Trede, Melanie and Bichler, Lorenz
Taschen GmbH, Koln, 2010 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. English text; Japanese binding in hardcover case with two clasps.; 26.2 x 31.5 cm, 2 Kg, 272 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear on the hardcover case. Due to use the binding is slightly curved on the right side first page of the binding. Very good copy.; Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world" ukiyo-e was a...
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A$332.44
The Baur Collection, Geneva: Japanese Prints (2 volumes)
by Forrer, Matthi
Collections Baur, Genève, 1994 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and French text.; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket in slipcase).; Two volumes in slipcase; 23.5 x 29.5 x 8 cm; 5.2 Kg; With colour and black and white illustrations throughout.; Limited edition of 3100 copies, of which this is 448.; Used book in very good condition. Looks as new. Minor signs of wear on the slipcase.; "These two volumes include the Japanese prints collected by Alfred Baur over the forty or so years...
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A$880.97
Shimogakari Noh Chant Collections shimogakarishuuitaiseiutai下掛拾遺大成謡（したかけしゅういたいせいうたい）
by Unknown
1691 Japanese Handwritten Noh Play Theater Mask Demons Warrior Japan Shimogakari
An interesting Edo woodblock-print of 'Noh Chant Collections' from the early 17th century. Noh chants were adopted from Buddhist prayers and went with the musical background of Noh plays, which to this day is one of the most important performing arts in Japan. Noh plays borrowed from other arts with masks, music, and even structure. A normal Noh piece has five plays, god, warrior, woman, living person, and demon, which are... Read more about this item
An interesting Edo woodblock-print of 'Noh Chant Collections' from the early 17th century. Noh chants were adopted from Buddhist prayers and went with the musical background of Noh plays, which to this day is one of the most important performing arts in Japan. Noh plays borrowed from other arts with masks, music, and even structure. A normal Noh piece has five plays, god, warrior, woman, living person, and demon, which are... Read more about this item
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A$1,162.88
Tsubasa Album De Reproductions 2 (Japanese Version)
by Clamp
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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A$170.56
Antique Japanese Fairy Tale Series #16, The Wonderful Tea Kettle
by JAMES, T.H
1896 1st ed Japanese Fairy Tales Wonderful Tea Kettle Badger Illustrated Tokyo
A rare, hand-made book on silk-stitched, creped wraps of famous Japanese fairy tales! This traditional tale, 'The Wonderful Tea Kettle', is an illustrated woodblock book telling the tale of an old priest and his desire to lead the Chanoyu ceremony. While in meditation, his tea kettle began to shake and out of it came a badger!
This volume is numbered no. 16 in a series of 'Antique Japanese Fairy Tales'.
Item number: #6980... Read more about this item
A rare, hand-made book on silk-stitched, creped wraps of famous Japanese fairy tales! This traditional tale, 'The Wonderful Tea Kettle', is an illustrated woodblock book telling the tale of an old priest and his desire to lead the Chanoyu ceremony. While in meditation, his tea kettle began to shake and out of it came a badger!
This volume is numbered no. 16 in a series of 'Antique Japanese Fairy Tales'.
Item number: #6980... Read more about this item
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A$773.70
Nineteenth century Japanese shunga book
Book. Fine. Soft cover. Pictorial printed paper wrappers with 12 color-printed explicit scenes and 16 pages of text in Japanese, string bound on the right in the Japanese style. 7" x4 3/4". No date or publisher stated, circa. 1860. Very near fine condition, with one small stain and some light chipping on back cover. Rarely seen in this condition..
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A$852.78A$426.39
Japanese Prints: A Collection of Hanga by Shiko Munakata. SIGNED.
by Munakata, Shiko
Purple silk covered boards with gilt lettering to front; black title to spine & gilt decoration to rear. Includes a ten foot x 16.5 inch folded print entitled Daisekai no Saku "Ken" Kamigami Yori Jinrui E. Jacket has two closed tears; other wise a fine copy in a vibrant purple cloth by Wada Book Binding, Tokyo. Large (15x30 cm) bold brush & ink signature by Munakata to front free fly. Number 2813 of only 3000 copies in the original Japanese.; Folio 30x43 cm; 222 pages; Signed by Artist; All...
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A$7,318.36
