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Accordion-Fold Book for the Umbrellas: Joint Project for Japan and USAby: Javacheff, Christo & Jeanne-Claude.

Accordion-Fold Book for the Umbrellas: Joint Project for Japan and USA
by: Javacheff, Christo & Jeanne-Claude.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Accordion-fold folio. Wrap-around band torn and wrinkled but present. Minor rubbing to edges. Clean, tight copy. Foreword and Interview By Masahiko Yanagi. Photographs By Wolfgang Volz.

Record # 454077

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Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration, Theby: Hillier, Jack

Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration, The
by: Hillier, Jack

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on dust jacket covers. Clean, tight copy. Pictures throughout.

Record # 369101

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Art of the Japanese Garden, The: History / Culture / Designby: Young, David E.

Art of the Japanese Garden, The: History / Culture / Design
by: Young, David E.

Hardcover. North Clarendon, VT, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 2230215

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Babysan: A Private Look At the Japanese Occupationby: Bill Hume

Babysan: A Private Look At the Japanese Occupation
by: Bill Hume

Softcover. Tokyo, Kasuga Boeki KK, 13th pr., 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 128 pages. A collection of b&w cartoons by Hume. Tanned pages are unmarked with b/w illustrations and jokes that didn't age well. More than a bit racist and chauvinistic. But very popular with the GIs of the period. One page torn, tape repaired.

Record # 387687

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Bat Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan by: Jiro Kuwata, Editor: Chip Kidd

Bat Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
by: Jiro Kuwata, Editor: Chip Kidd

Softcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys. This is The Dynamic Duo as you've never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won't stay dead. And as a bonus: Jiro Kuwata, the manga master who originally wrote and drew this material, has given an exclusive interview for our book. Clean copy.

Record # 383275

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Butoh: Dance of the Dark Soulby: Mark Holborn and Ethan Hoffman

Butoh: Dance of the Dark Soul
by: Mark Holborn and Ethan Hoffman

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages. Color photographs by Ethan Hoffman and text by Mark Holborn, Tatsumi Hijikata and Yukio Mishima and Kazuo Ohno. Includes a 12 page section on Ohno with numerous color photographs. Color cover photograph is of Ohno. Features work of several other Butoh choreographers/dancers.

Record # 362315

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Contemporary Japanese Printsby: Kawakita, Michiaki

Contemporary Japanese Prints
by: Kawakita, Michiaki

Hardcover. Tokyo, Kodansha, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages. Large format. Illustrated with full color and black & white examples of of fine contemporary prints from Japan. Dust jacket shows wear with dime sized chunk missing at top of spine and piece missing at bottom left corner of rear flap. Clean, tight copy. May require additional postage. "Contemporary Japanese Prints" is a fine, beautifully printed folio book--just the way art books should be. Written by a key art historian and critic as well as museum director, it serves as an excellent and eye-opening overview of just what the straightforward title indicates, artistic prints by Japanese artists then currently active as of 1967. Kawakita's introduction is clear and concise but properly informative, defining this art form's general characteristics and then outlining its modern history, starting with its rise in the early twentieth century. Contrary to what one might expect, these prints are almost totally unrelated to Japan's rather famous ukiyo-e prints of the early modern period, these modern "hanga" instead representing the creative vision and artistic labor of one individual artist. And well, a picture's worth a thousand words, so the bulk of the book presents a selection of 150 prints by 119 artists--47 color plates and 103 monochrome plates.

Record # 608100

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Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasuresby: Nara Museum

Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures
by: Nara Museum

Softcover. Japan, Nara Museum, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 116 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608270

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FEEL AND THINK : A NEW ERA OF TOKYO FASHIONby: Motoaki, Hori

FEEL AND THINK : A NEW ERA OF TOKYO FASHION
by: Motoaki, Hori

Softcover. Munich / London, Prestel, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages, 450 color illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This book profiles the works of ten designers whose use of textiles, meticulous attention to material and workmanship, and interaction with other creative disciplines have created a new atmosphere of connectivitiy and engagement on the Tokyo runways.

Record # 351004

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Fine Japanese Prints and Works of Art New York December 8-9, 1988 by: Sotheby's

Fine Japanese Prints and Works of Art New York December 8-9, 1988
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover illustrated with color & b/w photos. Sale 5793 1,062 lots. Painting and Screens (55), Prints (223), Netsuke (89), Ojime (11), Inro (143), Sword Fittings (171), Swords (44), Armour (8). Also Ivory, Ceramics, Enamels, Metalwork, Furniture. Includes an important group of prints by Utagawa Hiroshige from The One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. Clean copy.

Record # 396266

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Floating World of Ukiyo-E: Shadows, Dreams and Substanceby: Kita, Sandy

Floating World of Ukiyo-E: Shadows, Dreams and Substance
by: Kita, Sandy

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Focusing on Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating or sorrowful world"), the colourful woodblock prints that are the most popular form of Japanese art, this book introduces the little-seen collection held by the Library of Congress. This collection of prints, drawings and books, one of the largest outside Japan, has never been exhibited and has rarely been handled. The art form of Ukiyo-e first flourished in 17th-century Edo (now Tokyo), depicting landscapes, portraits of courtesans and actors. This book includes known masterpieces by such names as Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kunisada, as well as rare and unusual prints that have not been explored before, and thus serves as a survey of its subject.

Record # 470092

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Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashionby: Fukai, Akiko

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
by: Fukai, Akiko

Hardcover. London, Merrell Publishers, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and sketches. Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century, challenging established notions of beauty and turning fashion into art.

Record # 353058

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Gardens of Japan, The (English and Japanese Edition)by: Itoh, Teiji

Gardens of Japan, The (English and Japanese Edition)
by: Itoh, Teiji

Hardcover. New York, Kodansha International, Reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white and color photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 2230147

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Haniwa: The Clay Sculpture of Proto-Historic Japan by: Miki, Fumio [Roy Andrew Miller translator]

Haniwa: The Clay Sculpture of Proto-Historic Japan
by: Miki, Fumio [Roy Andrew Miller translator]

Hardcover. Rutland VT/Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle, 2nd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with many fine photogravure plates, several in color. 161 pages.

Record # 381863

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Hiroshige : Birds and Flowersby: Hiroshige, Ando; Israel Goldman; Cynthea J. Bogel

Hiroshige : Birds and Flowers
by: Hiroshige, Ando; Israel Goldman; Cynthea J. Bogel

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Heavy damage on 2 inches of bottom right corner. Otherwise, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and idyllic sense of nature.

Record # 369102

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Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edoby: Hiroshige, Harry D. Smith, Ando

Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
by: Hiroshige, Harry D. Smith, Ando

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. landscapes. Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The series contains many of Hiroshige's best-loved and most extraordinary prints. Like Venice and Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, or Paris in the age of the Impressionists, the city of Edo, with its superb landmarks and its festive display of elegant urban life, exerts a special and compelling fascination. Hiroshige revealed the panorama of his city's activities with subtle and vivid visual anecdotes: fireworks seen from the river, fashionable geishas on parade, the kabuki district at night, intimate moments in the gardens and teahouses. It is a tour de force of artistic vision and printmaking craftsmanship. This edition has been reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum of Art to insure maximum fidelity to the original prints. Henry Smith ex-plains the world of Edo in its twilight before the Meiji Restoration and the beginnings of a modern urban society. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary that discusses its artistic and cultural interest in detail. For anyone interested in Japan, the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is perhaps the finest guide and one of the greatest legacies imaginable.

Record # 369104

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Hiroshima Murals: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Marukiby: John W. Dower; John Junkerman; Editor Iri Maruki; Editor Toshi Maruki

Hiroshima Murals: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki
by: John W. Dower; John Junkerman; Editor Iri Maruki; Editor Toshi Maruki

Hardcover. NY, Kodansha International, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 128 pages. Examines two Japanese artists' series of paintings which portray the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima. Illustrated in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY JUNKERMAN, one of the editors, on the title-page. Clean copy.

Record # 378027

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Hokusai: Prints and Drawingsby: Forrer, Matthi

Hokusai: Prints and Drawings
by: Forrer, Matthi

Hardcover. US, Prestel Pub, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color prints throughout. Minor wear on corners. Hokusai was one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print. His exquisite compositions and dynamic use of colour set him apart from other printmakers, and his unequalled genius influenced both Japanese and a whole generation of Western artists. This book reproduces the artist's finest works in plates that convey the full variety of his invention, each of which is provided with an informative commentary. In his introduction, Hokusai expert Matthi Forrer traces the artist's career and defines his place in relation to his contemporaries and to the history of Japanese art. Examining all genres of the artist's prolific output - including images of city life, maritime scenes, landscapes, views of Mount Fuji, bird and flower illustrations, literary scenes, waterfalls and bridges - "Hokusai: Prints and Drawings" provides a detailed account of the artist's genius.

Record # 369100

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I. Ukiyo-e Paintingby: Stern, Harold P.

I. Ukiyo-e Painting
by: Stern, Harold P.

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Tape repair on top spine. Previous owner's bokplate on inside front wrapper. Tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 369325

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Japan Fashion Nowby: Steele, Valerie

Japan Fashion Now
by: Steele, Valerie

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 350010

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Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Skyby: Munroe, Alexandra

Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky
by: Munroe, Alexandra

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, illustrated throughout with 445 illustrations including 200 plates in full color. Previous owner's initials on half title page. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460354

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Japanese Art and Design, Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 July 2005, Sale Number 7050by: Christie's

Japanese Art and Design, Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 July 2005, Sale Number 7050
by: Christie's

Softcover. London, Christie's , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 246 pages illustrated in color.

Record # 373661

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Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950by: Hiesinger, Kathryn B.; Fischer, Felice

Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950
by: Hiesinger, Kathryn B.; Fischer, Felice

Philadelphia Museum of Art , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, large format 12" X 12", 236 pages, illustrated i color throughout. Includes 316 illustrations, including 246 in full colour. The catalogue to accompany the exhibition held Sept. 25 to November 20, 1994 in Philadelphia. The exhibition surveyed the design history of Japan from 1950 through to the early 1990s. Clean copy.

Record # 380743

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Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernaturalby: Stephen Addiss

Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural
by: Stephen Addiss

Softcover. NY, George Braziller , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog, published in association with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374195

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Japanese Masters of the Colour Print: A Great Heritage of Oriental Artby: Hillier, J.

Japanese Masters of the Colour Print: A Great Heritage of Oriental Art
by: Hillier, J.

hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 2nd, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 139 pages. Contains numerous color plates tipped-in. Also contains black & white prints. Some rubbing to corners and spine edge. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling, small tears.

Record # 503369

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Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museumby: Janice Katz

Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum
by: Janice Katz

Hardcover. Oxfork UK, Ashmolean Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages. 94 color plates, index of artists, essay summaries in Japanese, bibliography.

Record # 362300

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Japanese Prints by: Fahr-Becker, Gabriele

Japanese Prints
by: Fahr-Becker, Gabriele

Hardcover. US, Taschen, 1st, 1999-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461512

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Japanese Prints: From the Early Masters to the Modernby: Michener, James A.

Japanese Prints: From the Early Masters to the Modern
by: Michener, James A.

Hardcover. Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Huge survey of Japanese prints, with many tipped-in and folding plates. 257 plates including 55 tipped-in full color plates, acetate protected color dust jacket, cloth bound cover with gilt lettering on spine, pattern of oriental woman on fabric sewn into cover. Price-clipped, slight chipping to top of dust jacket spine; a tight, attractive copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 802456

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Japanese Temples: Sculpture, Paintings, Gardens, and Architectureby: Kidder, Jr., J. Edward

Japanese Temples: Sculpture, Paintings, Gardens, and Architecture
by: Kidder, Jr., J. Edward

Hardcover. Tokyo/Amsterdam, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha/Abrams, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 554 pages, illustrated with hundreds of color and b&w plates of Japanese temples from the year 552. Photographs by Tatsuzo Sato, Shihachi Fujimoto, Yoshio Watanabe, Ken Domon, Yasukichi Irie, Yukio Futagawa. Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha. Bibliography. Large folio, brown silk cloth with gilt lettering. In a edgeworn green slipcase. Heavy volume, extra charges for priority shipping.

Record # 401490

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Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collectionsby: Murase, Miyeko

Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collections
by: Murase, Miyeko

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 124 color prints. 13 gatefold illustrations especially valuable: nearly 5 feet wide when opened. Textual material includes descriptions of each screen reproduced, a glossary, and short biographies of the artists whose work is presented.

Record # 353145

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Pater Sato - Portfolioby: Kitahara, Morio

Pater Sato - Portfolio
by: Kitahara, Morio

Softcover. Tokyo, Genko-sha, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white examples of art and graphic design work by Pater Sato. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608347

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Robotech Art 1: The Official Guide to the Robotech Universeby: Reynolds, Kay, Ardith Carlton,

Robotech Art 1: The Official Guide to the Robotech Universe
by: Reynolds, Kay, Ardith Carlton,

Paperback. Norfolk, Virginia, The Donning Company, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages. Oversized, cover has light wear to corners and edges. Inside is bright and clean. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. A nice copy. Provides plot summaries for more than eighty episodes of a Japanese animated science fiction series and shares drawings and profiles of the main characters.

Record # 853010

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Secret Doll Underground: Japanese Surrealist Dolls From The Yaso Collection, Tokyo (Japanese Art Perspectives)by: Yuichi Konno (Editor)

Secret Doll Underground: Japanese Surrealist Dolls From The Yaso Collection, Tokyo (Japanese Art Perspectives)
by: Yuichi Konno (Editor)

Softcover. Tokyo, Shinbaku Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, illustrated in color. The modern era of underground doll-making in Japan began in the late 1960s, with the experiments of Simon Yotsuya and Nori Doi. Directly inspired by the Surrealist Doll constructed by Hans Bellmer in 1932, Simon Yotsuya created a series of ball-jointed, life-sized dolls which featured in his ground-breaking "Eve In The Past And The Future" exhibition in Tokyo, in 1973. Simon Yotsuya's work inspired a new wave of avant-garde Japanese doll-making, headed by artists such as Ryo Yoshida and Katan Amano, which has continued to flourish to the present day. SECRET DOLLeEUR^UNDERGROUND, presented by Yuichi Konno, features dolls by fifteen artists, from Simon Yotsuya onwards, with over 80 full-sized colour photographs never before published outside Japan. It also includes Konno's introductory history of the underground doll in Japan.

Record # 381430

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Stelesby: Segalen, Victor

Steles
by: Segalen, Victor

Softcover. Santa Monica, The Lapis Press, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with french flaps & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Pen marking to several pages in commentary sections. Poetry is clean & unmarked throughout. Black printed illustrations.

Record # 750742

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The Floating World - The Story of Japanese Printsby: James A. Michener

The Floating World - The Story of Japanese Prints
by: James A. Michener

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 403 pages. Hardcover. 65 illustrations, 40 in full color. Price clipped dust jacket worn with tape repairs, fading - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. "An account of the life and death of an art, of the men who made it and of the lusty age in which they flourished. 65 illustrations, including 40 in full color." Index, glossary, bibliography, appendices, artist biographies, chronology. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 385784

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The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosodaby: Solomon, Charles

The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda
by: Solomon, Charles

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 271 pages. Journey into the mind and creative process of one of the most celebrated anime directors working today with The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda. Written by renowned animation critic and historian Charles Solomon (The Art of WolfWalkers) and featuring exclusive interviews alongside hundreds of never-before-seen sketches, storyboards, background paintings, character designs, and concept art, this is the ultimate companion piece to Hosoda's work. Writer/director/animator Mamoru Hosoda's work includes Belle (2021), the Academy Award-nominated Mirai (2018); The Boy and the Beast (2015); Wolf Children (2012); Summer Wars (2009); and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006). He is the cofounder of Studio Chizu, one of Japan's premier animation studios. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386687

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The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusaiby: Place, Francois

The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai
by: Place, Francois

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 3rd pr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tojiro, a nine-year-old orphan, sells rice cakes on the streets of 19th-century Edo, the bustling city we now call Tokyo. One of his customers is the grumpy, eccentric octogenarian Hokusai. The old man takes a liking to Tojiro, and soon employs him as his assistant. The boy's ignorance provides a convenient vehicle for introducing the artist's life and work. Much of the dialogue and action is written for the purpose of conveying information about Hokusai, as well as the technique of woodblock printing and the social customs of Edo. The book's greatest strength is not the text, but the art that enlivens every page. A combination of the author's watercolors and reproductions of Hokusai's drawings and woodblock prints, the illustrations are arranged in enticing and varied page designs.

Record # 380413

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Tsutsumu: An Introduction to an Exhibition of the Art of the Japanese Package by: Oka, Hideyuki; Sakai, Michikazu

Tsutsumu: An Introduction to an Exhibition of the Art of the Japanese Package
by: Oka, Hideyuki; Sakai, Michikazu

Softcover. NY, Japan Society, Inc, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 215 pages. With a preface by Maryell Semal and photographs by Michikazu Sakai. 8 color plates, numerous b&w photos. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 381864

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Ukiyo-E: 250 Years of Japanese Art (SIGNED COPY)by: Yoshida, Susugu/Roni Neuer

Ukiyo-E: 250 Years of Japanese Art (SIGNED COPY)
by: Yoshida, Susugu/Roni Neuer

Hardcover. New York, Gallery Books, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, illustrated throughout in color. INSCRIBED BY YOSHIDA on half title page. Large, very heavy book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460396

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Ultimate Todai-ji - Incomparable Masterworks from Nara's Great Eastern Temple - Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan - April 20-July 7, 2002by: Nara National Museum

Ultimate Todai-ji - Incomparable Masterworks from Nara's Great Eastern Temple - Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan - April 20-July 7, 2002
by: Nara National Museum

Softcover. Nara, Nara National Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Full color photographs. Primary language of catalog is Japanese - Foreword and Exhibition Checklist in English. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613715

Price: $80.00 
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