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Dai San-kai Kozeni-shū (Third Collection of Ancient Coins)
Dai San-kai Kozeni-shū ["Third Collection of Ancient Coins"]
Shunka [produced by].
[Japan: Shunka, ca. Taishō to early Shōwa period (1920-30s)?].
A set of twelve woodblock-printed match labels featuring types of ginban - Japanese silver coins used in the Edo period. The text on each card records the year the coin was minted and/or the name of the type of ...
Die ersten lectionen des Deutschen sprachunterrichts: im gebrauch der Deutschen anfangsclassen der Kaiserlich-Japanesischen Academie von Daïgaku-Nankō
Die Ersten Lectionen des Deutschen Sprachunterrichts: im Gebrauch der Deutschen Anfangsclassen der Kaiserlich-Japanesischen Academie von Daïgaku-Nankō
Daigaku Nankō [edited by].
Jedo [Tōkyō]: Daigaku Nankō, 1870.
The first German primer to be published in Japan, and the second German study book overall to be published in Japan (after 官版独逸単語篇 (Ka ...
Dōhan gashū (Album of copperplate prints)
Dōhan gashū ["Album of copperplate prints"]
[Illustrator unidentified].
[Japan: Naitō Den'uemon, ca. early to mid-Meiji period (1870-80s)].
An album of 94 tipped-in copperplate prints from Uchida Masao's 13-volume geography textbook Yochi shiryaku ("A Compilation of Geographical Knowledge"). The prints, which were based on images found in Western ...
Edo meibutsu: nishikie kōsaku (The cultivation of brocade prints, a famous product of Edo)
Edo meibutsu: nishikie kōsaku ["The cultivation of brocade prints, a famous product of Edo"]
[Kitagawa], Utamarō [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. early to mid Shōwa period (1930-60s)?].
A woodblock-printed reproduction of the central print from Utamarō's Edo meibutsu: nishikie kōsaku triptych. The triptych was originally published ...
Educational Illustration Published by the Ministry of Education: Screw
[Kuniteru II (illustrated by).
Tōkyō: Monbushō Seihonjo, Meiji 6 (1873)].
An illustrated explanation of screws, featuring an image of a Western book press. One diptych from a series of prints published by the bookbinding division of the Ministry of Education in the 1870s.
Diptych, complete. Foxing, repairs to some wormholes, centre fold, a ...
Examples of Fröbel Gifts (Fröbelgaben) compiled by a kindergarten teacher in-training
[Untitled set of volumes on kindergarten play methods]
Maeda, Rie [transcribed by].
[Japan, ca. Meiji 29 (1896)]. Manuscript.
A collection of three manuscript volumes providing samples of four paper play methods and instructions for kindergarten teachers. The volumes are numbered "two", "three", and "five", and it is unclear how many volumes were in the or ...
Five copperplate-printed maps of places in Japan
[Five copperplate-printed maps of places in Japan]
[Shuntōsai (Okada Suigetsudō)] ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Japan: various publishers, ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1840-60s)?].
A set of five maps of locations in Japan, copperplate-printed in the late Edo period to early Meiji period. The set includes one map of the city of Kyoto, one of the ci ...
Fujin Sokuhatsu no Hinagata (Models of Chignons for Women)
Fujin Sokuhatsu no Hinagata ["Models of Chignons for Women"]
Ashihara, Kuninao [illustrated by].
Nihonbashi, [Tōkyō]: [Inoue Kichijirō], Meiji 18 [1885].
A nishiki-e providing instructions for creating five foreign hairstyles: the "Western up-do", the "Western low-style", the "Italian style", the "Italian low-style", and the "twisted thread style". Western ...
Fuku Wakashi: Takara no Iribune (New Year's Luck at Boiling Point: Arrival of the Treasure Ship)
Fuku Wakashi: Takara no Iribune ["New Year's Luck at Boiling Point: Arrival of the Treasure Ship"]
Ikeda, Fusajirō [edited by]; [illustrator unidentified]
[Kyōto]: Ikeda Fusajirō, Meiji 17 [1884].
An illustrated compilation of zashiki-gei (party tricks) styled as a sugoroku (game sheet). The sheet may have been part of a party game in which particip ...
Fukubiki Ōiri
[Illustrator not identified].
[Japan : (publisher not identified), ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1810-1870s)?].
A woodblock carved on both sides used to print a fukubiki lottery game. Fukubiki was a "popular pastime involving the drawing of lots or some similar method to win prizes".¹ This particular woodblock would have been used for a fukubiki game ca ...
Gōshū Nanpō Tairiku Oyobi Nyūjīrando Chōhakuun
Tsuchiya, Motosaku. Osaka: Asahi Shinbunsha, Taishō 5 [1916]. First edition. A detailed photographic record of the cultures and geographies of Australia and New Zealand, for Japanese readers, with many black and white photographic illustrations of the native animals, landscapes, cities, and indigenous peoples of the two countries. The book includes images of famous Australian ...
Hanging scroll by Tsuda Seifū
[Hanging scroll by Tsuda Seifū]
Tsuda, Seifū [painted by].
[Japan], Shōwa 47 [1972]. In manuscript.
A hanging scroll featuring a self-portrait painted by the highly acclaimed artist and graphic designer Tsuda Seifū (1880-1978) when he was 93. The calligraphy (also by Seifū) includes references to tanroku-bon, the shinnai jōruri song Ranchō, and the Car ...
Hanging scroll of two rabbits
[Hanging scroll of two rabbits]
[Kitazawa], Rakuten [painted by].
[Japan, ca. late Meiji to Taishō period (1900-20s)?]. In manuscript.
A hanging scroll painted by the manga artist Kitazawa Rakuten (1876-1955), featuring two rabbits in snow, an arrow, and the Japanese proverb "He who chases two hares catches neither". Rakuten was an influential cartoonist a ...
Hicchō-jō (An album of spontaneous brushstrokes)
Hicchō-jō ["An album of spontaneous brushstrokes"]
Yamamoto, Gyōhō, Kobayashi, Eikō ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Japan, ca. late Meiji period (1907?)]. Manuscript.
An album of paintings and calligraphic works by ten artists and calligraphers. The volume includes calligraphy by Nakane Hanrei (1831-1914), Nagasaka Sekitai (1845-1924), and Yoshida Banka (d ...
Hikanyakuōen (Medicine for the liver and spleen)
Hikanyakuōen ["Medicine for the liver and spleen"]
Ishida, Katsuhide [produced by].
Kyōto: Ishida Katsuhide, [revised in Meiji 28 (1895)].
A colour woodblock-printed leaf featuring information on Hikanyakuōen, a type of medicine claimed by the manufacturers to cure various issues with internal organs. The symptoms pictured in the lower half of the print ar ...
Hikobae (Root sprouts)
Hikobae ["Root sprouts"]
Ōta, Saburō [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Seibidō , Meiji 44 [1911].
An album featuring a three-page preface by the artist and seventy full-page illustrations in a variety of media, including half-tones and lithographs, on a variety of papers, several tipped-in. The illustrator, Ōta Saburō (1884-1969, sometimes referred to as Ōta Sa ...
Hittatsu Sensei Bokumyō (Exquisite Paintings by Teacher Hittatsu
Hittatsu Sensei Bokumyō ["Exquisite Paintings by Teacher Hittatsu"]
Kunii, [Seinosuke] [illustrated by]; Fuyō, Mokuyō [Suzuki, Fuyō] [postscript by?].
Hamura, [Edo (Tokyo)?], Bunka 10 [1813]. In manuscript.
A handscroll by the artist Kunii Seinosuke of landscapes and birds in a nanga or bunjinga (literati painting) style. Kunii (dates of birth and death un ...
Hōmā Monogatari (Tales from Homer)
Hōmā Monogatari ["Tales from Homer"]
Homer [original works attributed to]; Kikuchi, Kan [translated by]; Honda, Shōtarō, Unno [Umino?], Seikō, Asano, Kaoru [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Bungei Shunjūsha, Shōwa 4 [1929].
A highly illustrated translation by celebrated author Kikuchi Kan (1888-1948) of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Two colour illustrated plates, ...
Honchō Furisode no Hajime: Susanoo-no-Mikoto Yōkai Gōbuku no Zu
本朝振袖之始 素盞烏尊妖怪降伏之圖 [Honchō Furisode no Hajime: Susanoo-no-Mikoto Yōkai Gōbuku no Zu, “Susanoo no Mikoto Subdues the Yōkai in Honchō Furisode no Hajime”]
Edogawa [Katsushika], Hokki [illustrated by].
[Japan: unidentified publisher, ca. Kaei 4 (1851)].
A yoko-ōban nishiki-e by Katsushika Hokki (years of birth and death unknown), a pupi ...
Hyakunin Isshu karuta
[Hyakunin Isshu karuta]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan, ca. Edo period (1750-1850s)?]. In manuscript.
A complete set of two hundred Hyakunin Isshu playing cards (karuta). The Hyakunin Isshu card game (a form of uta-garuta ("poetry karuta")) is based on the anthology of one hundred waka poems by one hundred poets compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in the thirtee ...
Imayō Mitate Hori Suri Ryōkō no Zu [A Modern-day Adaptation Picturing Carving and Printing]
Imayō Mitate Hori Suri Ryōkō no Zu ["A Modern-day Adaptation Picturing Carving and Printing"]
Utagawa, Kunisada [Toyokuni III] [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. Taishō period (1910-20s)?].
A simplified Taishō-era (?) reproduction of the triptych Imayō Mitate Shi-Nō-Kō-Shō: Shokunin ("A Modern-day Adaptation of the Four Classe ...
Information on the Fifth Miyabi-kai
Kyōto: Miyabi-kai, [ca. 1920-30s].
An early Shōwa period invitation to an exhibition of fabrics with new dyeing and weaving designs held by the Miyabi-kai. Information about the location and time of the event appears in the illustration of the gramophone and its base when the lower moving section of the card is revolved.
One card, complete. Light di ...
Ishō Sekai (World of designs)
Ishō Sekai ["World of designs"]
Yokota, Hankichi [proofread by]; Sawa, Kyūkō ... [et al.] [illustrated by].
[Tōkyō]: Seibikai, [Meiji 34 (1901)].
Issue two of the magazine Ishō Sekai, published by the Seibikai ("The Exquisite Beauty Association"). The thirteen textile designs (over fifteen pages) included were provided by members of the Seibikai. The use ...
John Orr Ewing & Co. Best Turkey Scarlet: H. Ahrens & Co., Yedo, Yokohama & Hiogo
[Japan]: H. Ahrens & Co., [ca. 1870-1910].
A piece of packaging for 'Turkey red' (a colour used to dye cotton fabrics) with a lithographic label tipped-in. H. Ahrens & Co. was a German trading company based in Tōkyō with branches in Yokohama and Kōbe. John Orr Ewing & Co. was the name of a prominent Turkey red firm in Scotland.
O ...
Kaichū Jūhō (Important Treasures, Pocket-Sized)
Kaichū Jūhō ["Important Treasures, Pocket-Sized"]
[Creator/s unidentified].
Ōsaka: Honya Kitarō, [ca. late Edo to early Meiji period (1840-60s)?].
A portable booklet of charts and volvelles used in astrology for fortune-telling, featuring six woodblock-printed panels. Three of the panels feature intact volvelles used to quickly determine days and ...
Kaika jinkōki (The enlightenment Jinkōki)
Kaika jinkōki ["The enlightenment Jinkōki"]
Takahashi, Takematsu [text by].
Tōkyō: Shōgikudō, [ca. Meiji 18 (1885)].
A short book on the use of the abacus (soroban) in mathematical calculations. The Jinkōki, a text authored by Yoshida Mitsuyoshi (1598-1672, also Kōyū) in the early seventeenth century and acknowledged in the title of this work, is the ol ...
Kakkoku Shoryō Bankoku Chimei Shōran
Shibata, Shūzō.
Edo [Tōkyō] : Shunsōdō, [Kaei 6 (1853)].
A guidebook of place names from around the world, recorded as "the first dictionary of place names [published in Japan]".¹ The author, Shibata Shūzō (1820–1859), was the son of a dried fish seller who lived on Sado Island in his early years. He enjoyed drawing pictures and maps of his local surr ...
Kappa Sōden Kyūrizukai (A Kappa's Talks on Science: How to Use Cucumbers)
Kappa Sōden Kyūrizukai ["A Kappa's Talks on Science: How to Use Cucumbers"]
Kanagaki, Robun [text by]; [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by].
Edo [Tōkyō]: Bankyūkaku, [preface dated Meiji 5 (1872), but printed Meiji 15 (1882)].
Issues six and seven of Kokkei Zansai Bukuro ("A Collection of Humorous Leftovers"), containing the full text of t ...
Kiso Kaidō Rokujūkyū-tsugi (Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Road)
Kiso Kaidō Rokujūkyū-tsugi ["Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Road"]
[Keisai], Eisen, [Utagawa], Hiroshige [illustrated by].
Tōkyō: Shin'eidō, Taishō 10 [1921].
A Taishō era set of reduced-size woodblock-printed reproductions of Eisen and Hiroshige's famous Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series originally published between 1835 and 1837. ...
Kokkei Ō-A Gaikō Chizu = A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia
Kokkei Ō-A Gaikō Chizu = A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia
Nishida, Suketarō [text by]; Ohara, Kisaburō [envisaged by]; Nakamura, Shingo [supervised by].
Ishikawa: Nishida Suketarō, Meiji 37 [1904]. Third edition.
A satirical map produced in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). The work shows Russia as a giant octopus whose tentacl ...
Kōkoku (Advertisement)
Kōkoku ["Advertisement"]
[Company name illegible].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. late Edo to Meiji period (1850-1900s)?].
A woodblock-printed advertisement for bunshi (文紙), described in the document as "various [blank] documents for transactions [financial, legal, or otherwise] made between people". The firm offers these printed documents at a ...
Manji (Quicksand)
Manji ["Quicksand"]
Tanizaki, Junichirō [text by]; Nakagawa, Shūzō [binding designed by].
Tōkyō: Kaizōsha, Shōwa 6 [1931]. First complete (or "book") edition.
Manji, by the author and Nobel Prize in Literature nominee Junichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965), is a novel that delves into the complex feelings of love and betrayal experienced by the narrator Sonoko re ...
Manpō Eitai Shin-zassho: Nihon-zu-iri; Saigō Chōhōki (New Miscellany of Countless Eternal Treasures, with a Map of Japan; Useful Record of Year Names)
Manpō Eitai Shin-zassho: Nihon-zu-iri; Saigō Chōhōki ["New Miscellany of Countless Eternal Treasures, with a Map of Japan; Useful Record of Year Names"]
[Tokanshi (selections by)?].
Edo [Tōkyō]: Tsubameya Yashichi, [ca. mid to late Edo period (1750-1770s)?].
An encyclopaedic sheet, woodblock-printed on both sides, providing astrological, histor ...
Menu for a US-Japan Themed Naval Celebration
[Untitled Programme/Menu]
[Japan: publisher unidentified], 1923.
A programme and menu for a US-Japan themed celebration, in French. The embossed naval crest on the upper section of the card implies the event was held on a ship.
Nanakorobi Yaoki Kaiun Sugoroku (The Vicissitudes of Life: Game-Sheet of Fortune and Success
Nanakorobi Yaoki Kaiun Sugoroku ["The Vicissitudes of Life: Game-Sheet of Fortune and Success"]
Takabatake, Kashō [illustrated by].
[Japan: publisher unidentified, ca. late 20th century?].
A reproduction, possibly from the late 20th century, of a Taishō-era period "game of life" sugoroku, sealed in its original plastic wrapper and with its orig ...
Naniwa Shinbun (News from Naniwa)
Naniwa Shinbun ["News from Naniwa"]
[Creator unidentified].
[Japan: printing house unidentified, ca. early Meiji period (1860-80s)?].
A double-sided woodblock used to print a twenty-verse hitotsutose counting song. Hitotsutose was a type of kazoe-uta counting poem popular from the Meiji to early Shōwa period. Hitotsutose sheets printed by woodblocks such a ...
Natsu no Sugatami (Full-Length Mirror of Summer's Beauty)
Natsu no Sugatami ["Full-Length Mirror of Summer's Beauty"]
Nagata, Sobu [edited by].
Nagoya: Fusō Shinbunsha, Meiji 30 [1897].
A supplement published to commemorate the 3000th issue of the Nagoya-based newspaper Fusō Shinbun. The booklet adapts the popular Sanjūni Mensō ("Thirty-Two Amusing Expressions") trope and was probably inspired ...
Ninety New Movable Puzzles
Seiyō Chie Ita Zukai Tsuketaru Zu Tehon = Ninety New Moveable Puzzles
Itabe, Masashichi [translated by].
Ōsaka: [Kanshōdō], Meiji 10 [1877].
An illustrated introduction to Western-style movable puzzles for Japanes ...
Objets d'Art Authentiques du Japon, de la Chine et du Tonkin
Luchon: Sarthe, [ca. 1909].
An advertisement for the Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese wares of antiquities dealer M. Armand Loge, who is known to have published a catalogue of East Asian art objects including carved woods, bronzes, weapons, ivories, netzuke, lacquers, and inrō from the Collection Rabeuf in 1909. The name Tagawa-ya in the bottom left of the print is proba ...
On Christopher Columbus
Koronbisu Denki ["A Biography of Columbus"]
Hirooka, Haruki [Torajirō] [translated by].
[Kumamoto?]: Seiunrō, Meiji 3 [1870].
A scarce early-Meiji text on Christopher Columbus, with two woodblock-printed illustrat ...
On John Manjiro, one of the first Japanese residents of the US
Ikoku monogatari: Nakanohama Manjirō ["Story of a foreign country: Nakanohama Manjirō"]
[Author unidentified]; [Kashii, Masateru (hand-copied by)].
[Japan], Kaei 5 [1852]. Manuscript.
A manuscript recounting the experiences of the Japanese boy Manjirō (later known as Nakanohama Manjirō, John Manjirō, and John Mung). In 1841, fourteen-year-old Manjirō was s ...
On the Human Body, with a Diagram of Sign Language
Jintai Mondō ["Questions and Answers About the Human Body"]
Shirotani, Ken [text by]; Nakayama, Chikakazu [proofread by].
Kyōto: Murakami Kanbē , Meiji 9 [1876].
An introductory text to the human body, presumably for schoolage students. The work includes several colour woodblockprinted vignettes of body parts and an illustration of English sign language ...
Otoshidama (New Year's Gift)
Otoshidama ["New Year's Gift"]
Yamada, Jinzō [edited by].
Nagoya: Shōeidō, Meiji 26 [1893].
A large hikifuda (advertisement) produced for Hayashi Shinbun-ho, a shipping company based in Hamamatsu that also produced newspapers and magazines. The hikifuda is presented as an otoshidama (New Year's gift), presumably in an attempt to encourage mor ...
Photographic records of eclipse expeditions to Hokkaido
[Untitled Collection of Photographs]
[Photographer unidentified].
Esashi, Hokkaidō: Asakura Shashinkan, [ca. Shōwa 11 (1936)].
A collection of 24 photographs capturing various groups that travelled to Esashi, Hokk ...
Renpō Shōritsu (Commercial Law of the Federation)
Renpō Shōritsu ["Commercial Law of the Federation"]
[Parsons, Theophilus (original text by)]; Fujita, Kuni [translated by]; Seisei [Kawanabe], Kyōsai [illustrated by]; Katsu, Kaishū [preliminary calligraphy by].
Tōkyō: Kinokuniya Saisuke ... [et al.], Meiji 6-7 [1873-1874].
A complete two-volume set of Fujita Kuni's translation of a work by the ...
Sakigake (The Forerunner): Issue Eleven
Sakigake ["The Forerunner"]
Kaneko, Kinji, Kamisaka, Sekka, Taniguchi, Kōkyō [advised by]; Furuya, Kōrin [firm headed by]; Kawanabe, Kokichi [edited by].
Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Kaiseisha, Meiji 34 [1901].
Issue eleven of Sakigake magazine, featuring two pages of designs in colour (possibly printed with a mixture of lithography and halftoning) and eight p ...
Sakigake (The Forerunner): Issue Six
Sakigake ["The Forerunner"]
Kaneko, Kinji, Kamisaka, Sekka, Taniguchi, Kōkyō [advised by]; Furuya, Kōrin [firm headed by]; Kawanabe, Kokichi [edited by].
Kyōto: Yamada Naosaburō, Kaiseisha, Meiji 34 [1901].
Issue six of Sakigake magazine, featuring two pages of designs in colour (possibly printed with a mixture of woodblocks and lithography) and eight page ...
Seiro Kinen (Commemoration of the Attack on Russia)
Seiro Kinen ["Commemoration of the Attack on Russia"]
[Hamada], Josen [signed by].
[Japan, ca. 1904-1905]. In manuscript.
A political scene featuring the traditional Japanese fairytale characters Momotaro ("Peach Boy") and friends (a dog, monkey, and pheasant) storming into battle against Russian soldiers. The scroll was probably painted during or shortly ...
Seiyō Shisho: Eikan Taiyaku
西洋四書：英漢對譯 大學 [Seiyō Shisho: Eikan Taiyaku, Daigaku, “The Western Four Classics: an English-Chinese Parallel Translation of 'The Great Learning'”]
[Confucius (original text by)]; Rejji, Zēmusu [Legge, James (English translation by)]; Seki, Yoshitaka [Japanese "translation" by].
Tōkyō: Yamatoya Kihē, Meiji 5 [1872].
T ...
Senkeiban Zushiki
占景盤図式 [Senkeiban Zushiki, “Illustrations of Tray-Landscapes”]
Suminoe, Buzen [bonkei created by]; Suminoe, Aizan [compiled and edited by]; Nagayama, Kōin ... [et al.] [illustrated by]; Tadataka, Katsu [preface by].
Kyōto: Namariya Yasubē; Edo [Tōkyō]: Tsuruya Kiemon; Ōsaka: Kawachiya Tasuke ... [and 3 others], Bunsei 9 [1826].
A complet ...
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