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A Blank Book for Calligraphy Enthusiasts
[Untitled Album]
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. mid-Meiji to Taishō period (1890-1920s)?].
An album of thirty colour woodblock-printed spreads produced for calligraphy enthusiasts, who could write in brush and ink directly onto the pages or ask ...
An album of match labels
[An album of match labels]
Oda, Shūichi ... [et al] [commissioned by].
[Japan: privately published, ca. Shōwa 2-10 (1927-35)].
An album of tipped-in match labels produced in the 1920s and '30s when Japan's match label-collecting fad was at its peak. Most of the labels are woodblock-printed and have been produced in themed sets showcasing foreign t ...
Araihari ukiyo moyō (Floating world patterns stretched out to dry)
Araihari ukiyo moyō ["Floating world patterns stretched out to dry"]
Santō, Kyōden [original work by]; Kubota, Beisen [edited by].
Kyōto: Hakuseisha, Meiji 22 [1889].
A collection of 128 textile patterns from Santō Kyōden's Komon shinpō (1786), rearranged and coloured by the artist Kubota Beisen (1852-1906). While the upper wrapper notes t ...
Bikō zukan (A mirror of beautiful crafts)
Bikō zukan ["A mirror of beautiful crafts"]
Hasegawa, Keika [illustrated by].
Ōsaka: Aoki Tsunesaburō (Aoki Sūzandō), Meiji 27 [1894].
A complete two-volume set of colour woodblock-printed patterns designed by the painter Hasegawa Keika (act. 1892-1905). The one hundred patterns included would presumably have been designed for textiles and hand-craf ...
Chiyo-shibori (Decorative tie-dyeing (patterns))
Chiyo-shibori ["Decorative tie-dyeing (patterns)"]
Seshimo Gofukuten [produced by].
Uji, [Kyōto Prefecture]: Seshimo Gofukuten, Seisen 5 [1941].
An unrecorded sample book of ten tie-dye designs for autumn and winter, produced in Seisen 5 ("the fifth year of the holy war") by the clothing store Seshimo (or Raika) Gofukuten. The editor notes in the preface t ...
Emon: okunizome (Patterns for okunizome dyeing)
Emon: okunizome ["Patterns for okunizome dyeing"]
[Iwao, Joshun (illustrated by)?].
[Japan, ca. late Meiji period to early Shōwa period (1880-1920s)?]. Manuscript.
A manuscript of forty designs (including 23 in colour) for okunizome textile dyeing. Okunizome, later referred to as Kaga yūzen or Kaga okunizome, was a dyeing technique predominantly use ...
Erokan jidai no uta: Nikkatsu eiga shudaika (Song for the age of erotic senses: theme of the Nikkatsu film)
Erokan jidai no uta: Nikkatsu eiga shudaika ["Song for the age of erotic senses: theme of the Nikkatsu film"]
Itō, Kazuo [lyrics by]; Matsudaira, Nobuhiro [composed by]; Matsubara, Chikashi, Satō, Tokitarō [arranged by]; [Saitō], Kazō [illustrated by].
Tōkyō : Bikutā Shuppansha, Shōwa 5 [1930].
A harmonica score for the theme song of the film Musume ...
Futaba (Budding leaves)
Futaba ["Budding leaves"]
Tabata, Kakudō [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 40 [1907].
An album of thirty full-page woodblock-printed illustrations by Tabata Kakudō. Kakudō studied under the artist Suzuki Hyakunen (1828-1891) and later became a teacher of dyeing design in Kyoto. He contributed illustrations to Unsōdō's Bijutsukai and Sh ...
Hana momiji (Flowers and autumn leaves)
Hana momiji ["Flowers and autumn leaves"]
Yamashita, Kōsen [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Miyata Toyamadō, Meiji 34 [1901].
An album of 37 colour woodblock-printed designs for kimono by Yamashita Kōsen. The designs present a creative array of themes including rabbits, birds, umbrellas, landscapes, and insects, and occasionally feature metallic pigments and kar ...
Hana sekai (World of flowers)
Hana sekai ["World of flowers"]
Nonoguchi, Kajō [illustrated by]; Usui, Sukejirō [edited by].
Kyōto: Unsōdō, Meiji 43 [1910].
A collection of fifty kimono designs by Nonoguchi Kajō. The colour woodblock-printed designs feature flowers, birds, rabbits, butterflies, fans, landscapes, bamboo, and other traditional and modern themes. A highlight of the ...
Hatsugoromo (First garments)
Hatsugoromo ["First garments"]
Kumagai, Keiun [created by].
Kyōto: Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Meiji 41 [1908].
An album of thirty colour woodblock-printed textile designs produced by the textile artist Kumagai Keiun and the little-known Futaba-kai group. The brief biography of Keiun on p. 28 of the "Ku" section of Dainihon jinbutsushi: ichimei gendai jinmei ...
Heiwa no hana: shinsaku (Flowers of peace: a new work)
Heiwa no hana: shinsaku ["Flowers of peace: a new work"]
Ōyagi, Shungyō [edited by].
Kyōto: Unsōdō, Taishō 9 [1920].
A scarce Unsōdō publication filled with innovative patterns for textiles in collotype. The book was prefaced and edited by the little-known artist Shungyō, who produced at least five other works in the late Meiji to Taishō period with Unsōd ...
Ishō sekai (World of designs)
Ishō Sekai ["World of designs"]
[Sawa], Kyūkō ... [et al.] [illustrated by]; Watanabe, Takijirō [woodblocks cut by].
Tōkyō: Seibikai, Meiji 34 [1901].
Issue 5 of the magazine Ishō Sekai, published by the Seibikai ("The Exquisite Beauty Association"). The eighteen textile designs included were provided by members of the Seibikai, and the woodblocks we ...
Kanamegusa (Vital grasses)
Kanamegusa ["Vital grasses"]
Harada, Fumito [created by].
Tōkyō: Kumagai Daijirō, Meiji 19 [1896].
The only known issue of Kanamegusa, a little-known magazine featuring beautiful colour woodblock-printed illustrations in a Nihonga style of birds, fish, flowers, plants, people, and landscapes. The preface suggests that the illustrations, which are spread ov ...
Kintaichō (A gathering of brocade bags)
Kintaichō ["A gathering of brocade bags"]
Shimomura, Gyokukō [Tamahiro] [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Honda Ichijirō; Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Taishō 10 [1921].
An album of designs for pouches made from brocade fabrics. Such pouches, shifuku, were used in the tea ceremony for tea containers, tea bowls, and other utensils. The colourful pouches were designed by Shim ...
Kisō Tenrai (Inspired and Bizarre Ideas)
Kisō Tenrai ["Inspired and Bizarre Ideas"]
Miyatake, Gaikotsu [edited by]; [Kitagawa], Utamarō, Hishikawa, Moronobu ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
Ōsaka: Miyatake Gaikotsu, Gazoku Bunko, Meiji 43 [1910].
An album of highly entertaining, if perplexing, illustrations produced by the oft-incarcerated journalist and author Miyatake Gaikotsu (1867-1955). A n ...
Kokkei manga (Humorous sketches)
Kokkei manga ["Humorous sketches"]
Akatsuki, Kanenari [preface by]; [Santō, Kyōden (illustrated by)].
Ōsaka: Shioya Kisuke, Bunsei 6 [1823].
A re-carved, re-titled, and re-arranged edition of Santō Kyōden's Komon gawa (1790) featuring a new frontispiece and fifteen additional illustrations. Akatsuki no Kanenari I (1793-1860), the artist/author who w ...
Kokkei zuan (Humorous designs)
Kokkei zuan ["Humorous designs"]
Kamisaka, Sekka [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 36 [1903].
An album of amusing patterns and illustrations by the famous designer and Neo-Rinpa artist Kamisaka Sekka (1866–1942). Kokkei zuan was published two years after Sekka was sent by the Japanese government to Glasgow as part ...
Kokon moyō-shū: musō kōeki monchō (Collection of ancient and modern designs: patterns to gain unparalleled profits)
Kokon moyō-shū: musō kōeki monchō ["Collection of ancient and modern designs: patterns to gain unparalleled profits"]
Murakami, Masatake [edited by].
Ōsaka: Maekawa Zenbē, Meiji 18 [1885].
A copperplate-engraved textbook on design, featuring ten pages of colour designs (the colours possibly woodblock-printed), the rest monochrome. Perhaps intended as a ma ...
Kyō saishiki (Colours of the capital)
Kyō saishiki ["Colours of the capital"]
Yamada, Kōun [frontispiece illustrated by], Yamaguchi, Sōsai [wrappers and one illustration designed by], Satō, Shiun, Tabata, Seikō, Tabata, Shiaki [Kihachi III], Kitano, Kashō, Konishi, Akiyama, Inada, Kakō, Rinshun, Takahashi, Tōsen [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Saiyūkai, Kyō Saishiki Hakkōjo, Meiji 41 [1908].
T ...
Kyōka Zuan (Designs from the Capital)
Kyōka Zuan ["Designs from the Capital"]
Hasegawa, Keika, Furuya, Kōrin [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 31-38 [1898-1905].
A complete collection of stunning textile designs by Hasegawa Keika (act. 1892-1905) and Furuya Kōrin (1875–1910). The creative illustrations, many of which reimagine traditional Japanese moti ...
Kyōto zuan (Kyoto designs)
Kyōto zuan ["Kyoto designs"]
Okada, Shikō, Shimomura, Gyokukō [edited by];
Kyōto: Kyōto Zuan Zasshi Hakkō-bu, Meiji 43 [1910].
Issues 60, 62, and 63 of series 5 of the magazine Kyōto Zuan. Each issue features colourful patterns (some lithographic), monochrome collotype illustrations, and articles on design by contributors.
& ...
Miyako nishiki (Brocades of the capital)
Miyako nishiki ["Brocades of the capital"]
[Ueno, Seikō (illustrated by)?].
Kyōto: Honda Ichijirō, Meiji 32 (1899)].
A collection of inventive designs by an unidentified artist or artists, previously owned by the acclaimed designer and artist Ueno Seikō (1871-1943). The woodblocks for the prints were carved by Kinoshita Yūnosuke and printed by S ...
Miyakogusa (Lotus japonicus)
[Miyakogusa ("Lotus japonicus")]
[Gotō, Ryūkō , Ueno, Seikō , Yamashita, Kōsen, Kobayashi, Gyokunen, Mizuta, Seikō, Shimomura, Gyokukō (Tamahiro) (illustrated by)].
[Kyōto: Honda Unkindō, Meiji 38 (1905)].
An extremely elusive copy of the first volume (presumed all published) of Unkindō's Miyakogusa 'series'. The album features twelve ful ...
Monyo shōhin (Small patterns)
Monyo shōhin ["Small patterns"]
[Tsuda, Seifū (illustrated by)]; Honda, Ichijirō [edited by].
Kyōto: Honda Unkindō, Meiji 33-[35] [1900-(1902)].
A two-volume compendium of woodblock-printed designs and patterns illustrated by the acclaimed graphic designer Tsuda Seifū (1880–1978) and produced by the famous design book publisher Unkindō.& ...
Monyō-sen: moyō zushiki (Selected designs: pattern-illustrations)
Monyō-sen: moyō zushiki ["Selected designs: pattern-illustrations"]
Mori, Kyokurei [edited by].
Kyōto: Okugami Shoshi, Shōwa 5 [1930].
A collection of eighty woodblock-printed designs featuring animals, plants, insects, waves, books, and less conventional objects. The album may also have been published under the title Moyō hyakusen. According t ...
Noshi Shinpon (New Book of Noshi)
Noshi Shinpon ["New Book of Noshi"]
[Compiler unidentified].
[Japan, ca. early Meiji period (1870-90s)].
An album containing approximately 265 tipped-in examples of woodblock-printed noshi. Noshi are folded paper decorations designed to be affixed to wrapped gifts. In earlier times, noshi were strips of dried abalone (symbolising longevity) attached ...
One hundred patterns from the capital
Tomon hyakka ["One hundred flowers of patterns from the capital"]
Adachi, Mahaya [Shinsoku] [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Bunsekidō Kitamura Shirobē, Meiji 24 [1891].
A two-volume set of motifs of animals, plants, flowers, and landscapes inspired by traditional Japanese patterns. The artist, Adachi Mahaya, was originally an engraver of menuki, decorative metal ...
Orimono shō-e (Textile designs)
Orimono shō-e ["Textile designs"]
[Illustrator unidentified].
[Japan, ca. late Meiji period (1900-10s)]. In manuscript.
An album of over 400 tipped-in textile designs by an unidentified artist. The designs feature flowers, plants, people, landscapes, animals, fans, butterflies, ships, and a variety of other objects. Several feature images of sol ...
Patterns for winter clothing
Fuyumono ishō-zukushi ["Various winter clothes"]
Ichibaisai [Morikawa] [Utagawa], Chikashige [illustrated by].
[Edo (Tōkyō)]: Tsuji Kame [Tsunajima Kamekichi], Meiji gannen [1868].
A colourful woodblock print of patterns for winter clothing, probably designed to be cut and folded into some unknown 3D form. The artist, Utagawa Chikashige, was a pupil of Kun ...
Reishin Gajō (Album of Beautiful New Illustrations)
Reishin Gajō ["Album of Beautiful New Illustrations"]
Matsui, Yūkoku, [Furuya, Kōrin] [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Honda Ichijirō, Honda Shoten, Meiji 33 [1900].
A complete two-volume set of colour woodblock-printed designs by the little-known artist Matsui Yūkoku (fl. 1900s, sometimes read Matsui Yoshitani). The set contains a total of 51 illustrations, 5 ...
Sasei haiga (Poems and illustrations by Sasei)
Sasei haiga ["Poems and illustrations by Sasei"]
Uzuki, Sasei [text and illustrations by].
Tōkyō: Uzuki Sasei, Shōwa 15 [1940].
A loose-leaf album authored, illustrated, and privately published by Uzuki Sasei (active ca. 1920-40s). The album features one woodblockprinted preface, one page of tips for painting haiga (simple illustrations to accompany haiku ...
Seiei (Essence)
Seiei ["Essence"]
Ueno, Seikō ... [et al.]; Yamada, Naosaburō [edited by].
Kyōto: Unsōdō Gōmei Gaisha, Meiji 40 [1907].
Issue 14 of the design periodical Seiei produced by the famed Kyoto ...
Seihō Ippinshū (A Collection of Masterpieces by Seihō)
Seihō Ippinshū ["A Collection of Masterpieces by Seihō"]
Takeuchi, Seihō [illustrated by]
Kyōto: Unsōdō, Shōwa 12 [1937].
The first series, featuring 31 prints, of Seihō Ippinshū, a collection of designs by the highly acclaimed nihonga painter Takeuchi Seihō (1864-1942). Produced by Unsōdō under Seihō's supervision just a few years before the a ...
Shima to kasuri (Stripe and splash patterns)
Shima to kasuri ["Stripe and splash patterns"]
Furuya, Setsuzan [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 38 [1905].
The first ('upper') volume of the first series of Shima to kasuri, illustrated by Furuya Setsuzan (active 1905-6). The work was published in two series, with two volumes in each series. This first pa ...
Shin zuan (New designs)
Shin zuan ["New designs"]
Kamisaka, Sekka, Kaigai, Tennen ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Gonikai Kyōto Zuan-bu, Meiji 30 [1897].
Issue One of the magazine Shin zuan, featuring ten full-page colour woodblock-printed patterns of plants, flowers, and landscapes. The magazine was published by the Gonikai, a group of Kyoto-based design enthusiasts. ...
Shin zuan (New designs)
Shin zuan ["New designs"]
Kamisaka, Sekka, Kaigai, Tennen ... [et al.] [illustrated by]; Nakayasu, Shinzaburō [edited by].
Kyōto: Fujī Magobē, Meiji 25 [1892].
Issue Nine of Shin zuan, featuring twelve full-page colour woodblock-printed patterns, mainly of plants and flowers. Each artist's name is recorded on each print's verso. Artists ...
Shina Taikan ["A Compendium of China"]
Fukuda, Bisen [Shūtarō] [text and illustrations by].
Tōkyō: Kanao Bun'endō, Taishō 5 [1916].
A complete set of two volumes by Fukuda Bisen (1875-1963) on the geography, customs, and history of China. The highly illustrated albums cover the Yōsukō (Yangtze River) region and the Kōga (Yellow River) region, whi ...
Shingata konna monchō: Santō Kyōden zuan (Collection of newly-designed motifs for dyeing: designs by Santō Kyōden)
Shingata konna monchō: Santō Kyōden zuan ["Collection of new-shape distinguished crests for dyeing: designs by Santō Kyōden"]
[Kinokuzubō (Teisai, Senchō) (preface and illustrations by); Santō, Kyōden (illustrations by)].
Tōkyō: Ōshimaya Takeda Den'emon, [ca. mid-Meiji period (1880-90s)?].
A collection of patterns from Santō Kyōden's ...
Shoke jimonshiki (Woven pattern styles of various families)
[Shoke jimonshiki ("Woven pattern styles of various families")]
[Umehara, Shinshichi (illustrated by)].
[Ōsaka: Onogi Ichibē ... (et al.), ca. mid-Edo period (1760-70s)].
A compendium of 648 motifs and patterns for craftspeople and artisans. The work is described in the preface as a collection of unconventional new Japanese and Chinese designs for carvings ...
Striking designs by Ogino Issui
Zuan hyakudai ["Designs on one hundred themes"]
Ogino, Issui [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Honda Ichijirō; Gōmei Gaisha Unsōdō, Meiji 43 [1910].
A complete set of three volumes of striking designs of animals, landscapes, people, flowers, and plants with a strong neo-Rinpa flavour by Ogino Issui. These three copies were previously owned by a clothing department ...
Tennen Hyakkaku (Tennen's Hundred Cranes)
Tennen Hyakkaku ["Tennen's Hundred Cranes"]
Kaigai, Tennen [illustrated by].
Kyōto: Yamada Unsōdō, Meiji 34 [1901].
The third and last volume of Kaigai Tennen's Tennen Hyakkaku, featuring twenty woodblock-printed illustrations of cranes in various styles. The illustrations feature the use of metallic pigments and printing techniques including kira ...
The Ten Bulls
The Ten Bulls
Matsumura, K. [Kaiseki] [compiled by]; Wadagaki, K. [Kenzō] [translated by]; Saito, Shoshyu [Saitō, Shōshū] [illustrated by]; Okura, H. [Hanbē] [blocks cut by]; Nishimura, K. [Kumakichi] [hand-printed by].
Tōkyō: Sakura-Shobo, Taishō 3 [1914].
A delightful little book of Zen poems with skilfully woodblock-printed illustrati ...
Tōkaidō gojūsan-tsugi (The fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō)
Tōkaidō gojūsan-tsugi ["The fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō"]
Ichiryūsai [Utagawa], Hiroshige [illustrated by].
[Japan, ca. late Taishō to early Shōwa period (1920-30s)?].
A set of colour woodblock-printed pochi-bukuro (mini-envelopes) featuring adaptations of Utagawa Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō series of ukiyo-e p ...
Wallpapers for Three Generations, Made in Canada
[Creator not identified].
Kyōbashi, [Tōkyō] : Yabuya Kawashima Fusumagamiten, Taishō 15 [1926].
A catalogue of 26 Canadian wallpaper samples published by Yabuya Kawashima Fusumagamiten, a company predominantly known for selling fusuma (Japanese sliding screen) papers. A number is printed on the verso of each decorative sample, and a price list has been tipped-in b ...
Yo no shirabe (Night melody)
Yo no shirabe ["Night melody"]
Yūgō, Bikutoru [Hugo, Victor] [lyrics by]; Gunō, Sharuru [Gounod, Charles-François] [composed by]; Matsubara, Chikashi [arranged by]; [artist unidentified].
Tōkyō: Bikutā Shuppansha, Shōwa 6 [1931].
A Japanese harmonica score for Charles-François Gounod's Sérénade, which featured as its ly ...
Zuanchō (Album of designs)
Zuanchō ["Album of designs"]
[Takada, Kakushū (illustrated by)?].
Kyōto: Misona, [ca. late Meiji to early Taishō period (1900-10s)?]. In manuscript.
A concertina-folding album of 97 hand-painted designs tipped-in to card leaves. The work is identified as the "ninth collection" on the outer title panel, indicating that the company that produced the d ...
47 Pieces of Japanese Sheet Music
Takehisa, Yumeji, and others [illustrations by].
[Japan] : Senow, Symphony ... et al., Taishō to early Shōwa period [1920-30s].
A collection of 47 pieces of sheet music published in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sheet music published during this period in Japan is known for its beautiful Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs, and these examples do n ...
Asagiri (Morning mist)
Asagiri ["Morning mist"]
Ōta, Saburō [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Seibidō, Meiji 45 [1912].
A two-volume work featuring seventy illustrations matched with lyrics to folk or traditional Japanese songs. The illustrator, Ōta Saburō (1884-1969, sometimes referred to as Ōta Samurō), studied Western-style painting under the artist and politician Kuroda Seik ...
Baren
Baren
Yamada, Sadatoshi, Ōki, Reiko, Kobayashi, Yoshito, Tanaka, Michio ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Okayama: Okayama Bijutsu Dōkōkai Hanga Sākuru], 1959-[1961?].
Issues six, eight, nine, and twelve of Baren, an obscure magazine created by (and produced for) members of the Okayama Art Lovers' Printing Circle. Issue six features ten hand- ...
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