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Imprint: 1824 [EHON] Kawamura Kiho, artist. KIHO GAFU. Kyoto: Yoshida Shimbei, Bunsei 7, [1824]. 1 volume, complete. 5 pp. prelims., 30 double-page color woodblock prints, 1 p. final, [pseudo]-colophon. The covers are green with a blind- stamped vegetal pattern, with a title label printed in brown on buff paper. 17.8 x 25.1 cm. The covers are fairly clean, the contents very good. This copy is a bit anomalous: It differs from Mitchell's examples "A" and "B" but is more like "B" than "A". It colors are a bit later, the keyblocks are printed darkly. There is a printed title-page on the inner front cover, on yellow paper. There is no final colophon, but rather a final undated page [pseudo-colophon] listing four bookshops. The last and lead shop is Fukui Genjiro. Sealed throughout like Michell's "A" example. (Mitchell pp. 360,1; Brown p. 105; Ryerson p. 388; Kerlen #839). Kiho was the adopted son of Bumpo and his work rivals Bumpo's in freshness and simplicity. Bibliographically, a very interesting example of this lovely book., Very Good Stock number: 87524.
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Imprint: 1820 [EHON] Kawamura BUMPO, artist. KIMPAEN GAFU. Kyoto: Hishiya Magobei, Bunka [zodiacal date corresponding to 1820]. 25 x 17.4 cm. Green covers stamped with octagonal patterning (replaced?), without the title slip. The bibliographical details of this copy correspond to the copy at Mitchell p. 362-3, save for the color of the covers. Sealed as the Mitchell copy throughout. There is occasional mild worming, otherwise the condition is good. The color and printing quality is excellent. A book which suffers as a later printing, this copy is unusually early overall - a nice printing., Good Stock number: 87443.
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[EHON] Mikuma Katen, artist. KINSEI KIJIN-DEN, 5 vols. Kyoto, Edo & Osaka. n.d. [1860's?]. String-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji, in textured blue-grey covers with printed paper title labels. 40 single page and 2 double page b+w woodcuts, largely depicting the subject matter of the title: TALES OF ECCENTRICS FROM RECENT YEARS. Originally printed in 1790, this is a deservedly famous and oft-reprinted work in Japan. The KIJIN_DEN catalogues the eccentricities and eccentrics of the late 18th Century - a time of florescence of the "bunjin" literati ideal in Japan. The bunjin created an esthetically pure environment in the midst of the bustle (and corruption) of everyday life. The initial exemplars were those scholars and artists who withdrew from public life in China after the fall of the Ming Dynasty to the alien Manchus in the mid-17th Century. The KIJIN-DEN represents one of the efforts by the Japanese to domesticate a Chinese cultural import and find native representatives of the literati ideal. The KIJIN-DEN is interesting for its exploration of the art world in Japan- for example, there is a domestic scene of the painters Ikeno Taiga and wife Gyokuran, among others. Indeed, there are many women depicted in the KIJIN-DEN. (See JAPANESE WOMEN ARTISTS 1600-1900) Also see Ryerson 416, Mitchell 364, Hillier/Ravicz 22. The condition is very good over all, the printings are late (this edition being some 60-70 years after the original printing by Hayashi Bunkindo). There was a second series done some few years later, but this first series is complete as issued in 5 volumes., Very Good Stock number: 84341.
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Imprint: 1913 [EHON] UNSO^DO^, Publisher. Kinsei Meika SANSUI GAFU Ko^hen. Kyoto: Taisho^ 2 [1913]. 24.1 x 32.2 cm, Oblong tassel-bound paper covers. 12 fullpage color woodblock prints of master landscape paintings. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 87534.
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Imprint: 1834 [EHON] Ueda KOCHO, artist. KOCHO GAFU. Osaka: Honya Kichibei & Kawachiya Kihei, Tempo 5 [1834]. Two volumes, yellow covers with original title label, string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji. 25.4 x 17.9 cm. Each with 15 unnumbered sheets, lightly colored woodblock printed illustrations throughout, 4 page preface, 2 page final note, colophon. Brown and Holloway are much kinder than Hillier in their assessment of this work. [Mitchell 369; Brown 94; Holloway 68-69] An interesting group of human figures, animals, landscapes, etc., from the sedate to the humorous, in a restrained Shijo-influenced style. The covers are a bit soiled, but the impressions and colors good or better. Complete as issued., Good Stock number: 86282.
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Imprint: 1850 [EHON] Ueda KOCHO, artist. KOCHO GAFU Ni-hen. Osaka: Honya Kichibei & Kawachiya Kihei, Kaei 3 [1850]. Two volumes, yellow covers with original title labels, string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji. 25.4 x 18.2 cm. The second series of illustrations, following the original KO^CHO^ GAFU of 1834, published by the same firms. See Mitchell 369-70. An interesting group of human figures, animals, landscapes, etc., from the sedate to the humorous, in a restrained Shijo-influenced style, printed in light colors. The covers are a bit soiled, but the impressions and colors are very good. Complete as issued. Much more unusual to find than the original series., Good Stock number: 88474.
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Imprint: 1894 [EHON ALBUM] Fukui Gessai after Ogata Korin. KORIN GAFU 2 vols. Osaka, Aoki Susando, Meiji 26, 27 [1893,4]. Folding albums, 27.8 x 21.3 cm. A total of 24 full-page color-printed images after paintings by Ogata Korin. The covers are woodblock printed, as well. Complete and in very good condition. Korin and the Rimpa style in general were undergoing a grand revival in late 19th, early 20th century Japan., Good Stock number: 88103.
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Imprint: 1895 [EHON] Ogata Ko^rin, artist. KO^RIN JUUNIZU. [n.d; n.p; - Tokyo? Kyoto?, c.1895] orihon, 26.3 X 19.8 printed title on paper boards. Compiled by Hashimoto (Bakka?). 12 lovely full-color woodblock images after designs by the great early 18th century artist, Ogata Ko^rin. One fold repaired else very good - very good impressions, excellent colors. Complete., Very Good Stock number: 82459.
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[EHON] Tatebayashi KAGEI. KO^RIN MANGA, Zen. [NAGOYA], To^hekido^ [Eirakuya To^shiro]. 22.8 x 15.8 cm. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro- toji. Sumi, b+w woodblock illustrations throughout, in the spirit of O^gata Ko^rin. This modest but lovely Rimpa work first appeared in 1817. This is a reprint, done by the house of To^hekido^, with Forrer's ads G47, hence, probably published in the 1870s. Bound in the publisher's standard orange patterned covers with a printed paper title label. Very good condition, good impressions., Very Good Stock number: 87661.
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Imprint: 1913 [EHON] UNSO^DO^, Publisher. KODAI MEIJIN GAFU. Kyoto: Taisho^ 2 [1913]. 24.1 x 32.2 cm, Oblong tassel-bound paper covers. 12 fullpage color woodblock prints after ancient and contemporary paitnings by master artists of Japan and China. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 87531.
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[EHON] Hatta KOSHU, artist. KOSHU GAFU. N.P., N.D. [Kyoto: Yoshidaya Shimbei?]. String bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji with original blue- grey covers embossed with interlocking octagons, title slip replaced with brushed title. 33 sheets, 5 pp. preface with 30 sheets of color illustrations in Shijo style and a one sheet closing comment. Though there is no colophon this would appear to be a reprint, probably printed by the same publisher as the original edition of 1812. The impressions and colors are good to very good with very little if anything to distinguish them from the original, save a slight difference of color. The covers are very worn. The contents are generally in good condition, with a bit of thumbing and a few abrasions and ink marks. Not a perfect copy, but still a handsome and important Shijo school book by a direct disciple of Maruyama Okyo, himself. [See Mitchell, p. 378; Hillier, Vol.2 pp. 711-2; Hillier/Ravicz, p. 42; Holloway, p. 100.] Has been bound into outer soft Japanese paper covers., Good Stock number: 87540.
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Imprint: 1824 [EHON] Hatta KOSHU, artist. KOSHU GAFU. Kyoto: Yoshidaya Shimbei, Bunsei 7 [1824]. String bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji with original blue-grey covers embossed with interlocking octagons, title slip printed in black on buff. 33 sheets, 5 pp. preface with 30 sheets of color illustrations in Shijo style. This is the second issue of the work, printed by the same publisher as the original edition of 1812. The impressions and colors are good to very good, a careful job throughout. The covers are a bit worn and the title slip somewhat faded and stained but the contents are in very good condition, indeed. A lovely copy of an important Shijo school book by a direct disciple of Maruyama Okyo, himself. [See Mitchell, p. 378; Hillier, Vol.2 pp. 711-2; Hillier/Ravicz, p. 42; Holloway, p. 100.], Very Good Stock number: 88526.
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Imprint: 1816 [EHON] Kameda BOSAI, artist. KYOCHUZAN. Vertically striated covers with horizontal figures, green on creme printed paper title label. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji. The collation follows example "A" at Mitchell 383-4, save for the following: 27.9 x 18.3 cm; the pages are all un-numbered; the seals are printed in red, there is a colophon on the inside of the back cover citing 6 publishers in Edo, Osaka & Kyoto and the publication date as the ninth month of Bunka 13 [1816]. Thus, another variant is added to the long list surrounding this wonderful work. Though many articles have been written and differences between variants catalogued, there is surely more that needs to be said on the subject. Besides the bibliographic niceties involved, this copy captures perfectly the artistry and fun of the "MOUNTAINS OF THE HEART", perhaps the most famous of all Nanga school ehon. A very nice printing with lovely colors on the creamy paper of the better editions. The very first image has a bit of mottling, perhaps a bit of a chemical reaction between the paper and the pigment or perhaps even a desired "effect" as I have seen it in several copies. Stock number: 87486.
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Imprint: 1809 [EHON] Kameda BOSAI, artist. KYOCHUZAN. Toto, 26.6 x 18.1 cm. Blue-green karazuri figured covers and printed paper label. String-bound Japanese- style, fukuro toji. The collation follows example "A" at Mitchell 383-4, save for the following: all sheets are unnumbered; there is a colophon on the inside of the back cover citing Suharaya Shimbei of Edo as the publisher and the publication date as the fifth month of Bunka 6 [1809], though all other internal evidence, i.e. prefaces, closing notes, etc., are dated by the zodiacal date corresponding to 1816. Resembles copy II of the three copies noted by Dr. Pulverer in his article on the bibliography of the book in ANDON magazine #50. As he mentioned, the paper and printing are quite good, though not quite up to the standard of the version I, though much better than his copy III (Mitchell's "C" - which is an obvious small format recut on relatively poor paper.) He describes the book as a "second edition". It is by far the most common version found in the marketplace and most dealers and collectors have thought it a version from relatively early on after the first. The final complication is that this copy is the first I have seen of this version where the inner backing to the title page is a layer of late Edo/early Meiji typeset printing! So, is this copy unique, bound up from earlier sheets with (perhaps) that early spurious 1809 colophon pasted to the inner rear cover sometime between 1850 and 1875? Or are all the versions which resemble Pulverer's II version done at that late date, though probably with sheets from a much earlier printing? I am simply not sure. What is sure is that this is a very nice printing in very good condition with lovely colors and creamy paper and that this version has always been thought to be one of the "good" ones., Good Stock number: 87686.
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Imprint: 1881 [Ehon] Kawanabe Kyosai, artist. KYOSAI RAKUGA. (By Kawanabe Toiku) Tokyo: 1881. 2 volumes (complete), 22.2 x 14.6 cm, bound album style with 17 double page color woodcut images in each volume. The condition of covers and contents is quite good. The impressions and colors range from good to very good. Mitchell [p.940] finds the RAKUGA "Kyosai's finest work in book form", and Brown [p.196] "the rarest of Kyosai's books" (along with the HYAKU [sic] GADEN). Kyosai is, of course, an important figure in the history of the woodblock illustrated book,, Fine Stock number: 88634.
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Imprint: 1913 [EHON] UNSO^DO^, Publisher. KYO^TO MEISHO GAFU Ko^hen. Kyoto: Taisho^ 2 [1913]. 24.1 x 32.2 cm, Oblong tassel-bound paper covers. 12 fullpage color woodblock prints of famous scenic spots in Kyoto. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 87533.
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Imprint: 1813 [EHON] Ooka Shumboku, artist. MINCHO SHIKEN. n.p., n.d., 3 vols., 27.6 x 17.7 cm., string-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji. Yellow paper covers with printed paper title labels. A reprint of the rare MINCHO SEIDO GAEN of 1746. This edition does not have its colophon, but is almost certainly later than the Hishiya Magobei edition of 1813, though it does have the final "authentification" seal of the Bunka edition [see Mitchell eaxample "B" at p.416] According to Hillier [Vol.1 pp.206-7], the original outline blocks were employed with new color blocks. Though Hillier and Mitchell point out the diminished printing quality of later editions compared to the original, it should be noted that the original edition, one of the first color printed Japanese books, is a work of great rarity and beauty. The true Bunka edition that we have seen, usually dated to 1813 is still a lovely book with the use of bokashi, etc. The edition at hand here is further diminished, but, that said, it is still a lovely book. See Brown, pp.70-1. Also, it should be noted that the original edition only consisted of two volumes (the planned third volume did not appear then.) The Bunka edition and later ones, like this, add that series of lovely images in a third volume, completing the original conception of the artist. The printing and colors are fairly good. Overall, good to very good condition, in a worn blue cloth chitsu clasped case [clasps missing] with the remains of a printed title slip matching those on the books themselves. Complete., Very Good Stock number: 88528.
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Imprint: 1813 [EHON] Ooka Shumboku, artist. MINCHO SHIKEN. Kyo^to, Hishiya Magobei. 3 vols., 27.6 x 17.7 cm., string-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji. Cream paper covers with printed paper title labels. A reprint of the rare MINCHO SEIDO GAEN of 1746. This edition is almost certainly later than the original Hishiya Magobei edition of 1813, it does not have the final "authentification" seal of the Bunka edition [see Mitchell example "B" at p.416] According to Hillier [Vol.1 pp.206-7], the original outline blocks were employed with new color blocks. Though Hillier and Mitchell point out the diminished printing quality of later editions compared to the original, it should be noted that the original edition, one of the first color printed Japanese books, is a work of great rarity and beauty. The true Bunka edition that we have seen, usually dated to 1813 is still a lovely book with the use of bokashi, etc. The edition at hand here is further diminished, but, that said, it is still a lovely book. See Brown, pp.70-1. Also, it should be noted that the original edition only consisted of two volumes (the planned third volume did not appear then.) The Bunka edition and later ones, like this, add that series of lovely images in a third volume, completing the original conception of the artist. The printing and colors are good. Overall, good to very good condition, in a worn blue cloth (Hishiya Magobei style) chitsu clasped case [clasps missing] with the remains of a printed title slip matching those on the books themselves. Complete., Very Good Stock number: 88683.
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Imprint: 1895 [EHON] Morikawa SOBUN, artist. MIYAKO MEISHO NIJUGO-KEI. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei, Meiji 28 [1895]. Orihon in stiff covers with a printed title label, 24.1 x 15.7 cm. 25 double page color woodblock images of scenes in and around Kyoto. Besides the 25 images, there is a two page preface, two pages of a table of contents, and a two page afterword by Tomioka Tessai. The delicate pastoral scenes are in Sobun's unmistakable late Shijo/early Nihonga Kyoto style, and the printing is up to Tanaka Jihei's usual high standard. This book appears in none of the standard references. Sobun was an important artist of the period who contributed to several anthologies of the time, but no separate work by him appears in Ryerson or Mitchell. The covers are quite worn and faded. There is very slight browning and soiling internally, but the condition is good to very good overall, and the impressions are very good. An unusual item. Complete., Very Good Stock number: 36266.
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Imprint: 1891 [EHON] TANAKA JIHEI, publisher & printer. MIYAKO NO NISHIKI. Kyo^to, Meiji 24 [1891]. Yellow patterned paper over boards, folding orihon album. 24.2 x 16.6 cm. 26 double page images after paintings by such Kyo^to school stalwarts as Mori Kansai, Ko^no Bairei, Imao Keinen, Takeuchi Seiho^, Kikuchi Ho^bun, Tomioka Tessai, etc., etc. A wonderful tour of the mid-Meiji Bunjin work transitioning into Nihonga. The printed paper title is after calligraphy by Tessai. A throroughly satisfying example of the genre in a nicely printed example in very good condition with a just a bit of soiling to the covers. By no means a common book, not in Mitchell., Very Good Stock number: 88737.
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Imprint: 1892 [Ehon] Yamada Ko^taro^, editor. MIYO NO HANA. Kyoto: Gosharo^ Shoten, 1892. 24.4 x 15.6 cm, tassel bound Japanese-style in pictorial paper covers, tied. With 6 single page and 12 double page color woodblock illustrations, largely after masters of Maruyama-Shijo^ and Bunjin schools. Very well printed. Good condition with a bit of worming. This is volume 3 of this ongoing series of pictorial epitomes of the woodcut art., Good Stock number: 84900.
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Imprint: 1824 [EHON] Nagayama KOIN, artist. Tani SEIKO, printer. NAMPO-JO. N.P., N.D., [Osaka, Bunsei 7 {1824}]. 25.4 x 18 cm. This copy, string-bound, Japanese- style, fukuro-toji, has the original printed title label. Almost certainly a later impression of a book which first appeared under the title SEIKO JO, it is a memorial volume in honor of Shokusanjin [Ota Nampo] who died a bit before this book was created. Seiko, a close friend, assembled a volume of Ota's verse and calligraphy, had Koin create the lovely Shijo style illustrations and cut and printed the book himself. One of the more elusive of the ehon of its time and a lovely one. This copy is missing the first and final sheets, thus the preface and colophon. It is only a noble fragment. The covers are worn and spotted, the impressions and colors good. See Keyes catalog of the Ehon collection at the NYPL, #49. Mitchell 465-6., Good Stock number: 87928.
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Imprint: 1811 [EHON] Kawamura BUMPO & Watanabe NANGAKU. Nangaku Bumpo TEKURABE GAFU. Naniwa [Osaka]: Kawachiya Kihei & Teito [Kyoto]: Fukui Genjiro, Bunka 8 [1811]. 26.0 x 17.8 cm. Yellow covers, string-bound, fukuro-toji, printed paper title label. See Mitchell 324-5 for more on this bibliographically complex book. Resembles his "B" example in one volume with alternative title of the KAIDO KYOKA AWASE, with which it is pictorially identical, save that this variant issue is printed with the key blocks only, black and white. Hard to establish a chronology of the various issues as they all have the same colophon, but one would think this to be a later issue. There is a subsidiary colophon glued to the inner back cover, listing not only Fukui Genjiro of Kyoto but also Fukui Konosuke and the Fukui publishing house in Doshin, Ise. Fair to good impressions. A wonderful collaboration from these two great artists, alternating their designs in succession. Quite an unusual book. The b+w prnting and change of printer/publishers points up the enormous complexity of Japanese bibliography. Overall good original condition., Good Stock number: 88450.
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Imprint: 1826 [EHON] Nishimura NANTEI. NANTEI GAFU KO^HEN. Ko^to [Kyoto]: Buncho^do^, Zodiacal Bunsei date of 1826. 25.4 x 17.9 cm. Pink covers with a medallion decoration, string bound Japanese style, cover label. Our copy is complete and, for all intents and purposes, identical to the copy catalogued in Mitchell, p.432. [See also Ryerson 375 for alternative titling of this work.] The covers of our copy are a bit rubbed and worn, the title label is chipped and there is a bit of thumbing internally, with extensive repaired worming which is primarily marginal, but the impressions and colors are good and the overall effect of the work is lovely. Hillier, in his ART OF THE JAPANESE BOOK [pp. 705-7] calls this book "one of the high points of the Japanese colour-printed gafu". Ours is one of the "well- printed, unfaded" copies Hillier specifies for that distinction of excellence. At one time, not a particulary rare book, it has become unusual in the marketplace. Its quality makes it a popular work., Good Stock number: 88562.
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Imprint: 1804 [EHON] Nishimura NANTEI. NANTEI GAFU. Kyoto, Kyowa 4, [1804]. Three volumes, in blue-green covers with printed paper title labels. 25.8 x 18.2 cm. The covers are soiled. Good printing with slight, repaired, worming. Overall a good copy of this classic Shijo work. See Mitchell 432 for a description of this book. Our version is printed without the kyoka poems and has the addition of a fifth Kyo^to publisher, Cho^jiya Genjiro^, on the colophon page. Complete. In atied chitsu case., Good Stock number: 88563.
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Imprint: 1898 [EHON] Matsumura GOSHUN, artist. NIHON MEIGA KAGAMI Tokugawa Jidai. Tokyo: To^yo^do^ Branch Shop, Kanda, Meiji 31 [1898]. Stamped in red on the title slip "Goshun-O^eyama". Large, 25 cm x 18 cm orihon folding album. In embossed stiff creme paper covers. There are 12 double page color printed images. A pleasing Meiji rendition of Goshun's inimitable style. Particularly interesting as the images are freighted with bits and pieces of the whole 19th century development in the Shijo^ school: Suiseki, Chinnen, etc. A by no means common work, identical to the copy at Mitchell 434, (see also Ryerson 378). The covers are soiled and a bit stained, internally vg. The impressions and colors are very good. Complete., Very Good Stock number: 37861.
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Imprint: 1812 [EHON] Tani BUNCHO, artist. NIHON MEISAN ZUE 3 vols. Kyoto, Osaka, Edo, [1812]. String-bound, fukuro-toji, original printed paper title labels, b+w woodblock depictions of the "Famous Mountains of Japan." A work justly famed for its accurate representation of the mountains in question. According to Mitchell, this is the third printing, done in Bunka 9 [1812], some eight years after the original edition, but still retaining the freshness and vigor of line for which the book is known. Volumes 1 and 2 are clean. The final volume has spotted covers and a faint tide line at the bottom edge, below the illustrations throughout most of the volume, that rises near the end, and some slight marginal worming. This copy is printed with great skill and subtlety, in a very good impression. Very good overall., Very Good Stock number: 87316.
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Imprint: 1807 [EHON] Tani BUNCHO, artist. NIHON MEISAN ZUE 3 vols. Kyoto, Osaka, Edo, [n.d, c. 1807]. 25.7 x 18.7 cm. String-bound, fukuro-toji, original printed paper title labels, b+w woodblock depictions of the "Famous Mountains of Japan." A work justly famed for its accurate representation of the mountains in question. According to Mitchell, this is the second printing, done in Bunka 4 [1807], identical to the copy from his own collection which he catalogued at p. 435. Printed with great skill and subtlety, and in very good impression, it retains the freshness and vigor of line for which the book is known. The covers are a bit worn, and there are 10 pp. with slight worming near the end of volume 3 affecting both illustrations and text, but its condition is very good overall., Good Stock number: 87844.
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Imprint: 1944 [Ehon] Hashimoto Okiie, artist. NIPPON NO SHIRO. Tokyo: Kato Hanga Kenkyusho, Showa 19 [1944]. 29.2 x 21.1 cm. String-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji in a printed dustwrapper, in a clasped chitsu case. 13pp. text + 12 woodcuts. This study in words and woodblock prints of twelve of the most famous feudal era castles in Japan is a remarkable testament to the resiliency of the Japanese creative impulse, even in the midst of the Pacific War. The scholarly text is by Kishida Hideto and the twelve double-page color woodblock prints were designed by Hashimoto, here revelling in the subject he knew and loved best. Depicted are Chiyoda Castle in Tokyo, Osaka Castle, Hirosaki Castle, Okayama Castle, Matsuyama Castle, along with Himeji, Kochi, Ogaki, Oyama, Nagoya, Komoro and Hikone Castles, many of which would be in ashes within a year. This is a lavish and very well-printed production on good paper. The prints are very fresh. [See Hillier 1044,5], Good Stock number: 89596.
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Imprint: 1882 [EHON] Kawabata GYOKUSHO^, artist. [NO^ KYO^GEN GASHU^]. Fukuendo^, Meiji 15 [1882], the title slip is missing. An orihon folding album, 17.6 x 12.1 cm, bound in cloth. There are 19 double page color woodblock printed images of scenes from No^ and Kyo^gen drama. Each scene is identified. Early Meiji era printing in saturated colors, an early work by Gyokusho^. Overall very good condition., Very Good Stock number: 89337.
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Imprint: 1790 [EHON] Kitao SHIGEMASA [attributed to]. ONNA BO^KUN OSHIE GUSA Zen. n.p., n.d. [Edo: Maekawa Rikuzaemon, Kansei 2 (1790)] Original dark blue covers with printed paper title labels. 26.7 X 18.2 cm. A practical guide to woman's etiquette, with furigana included to allow easier reading. Includes an interesting section on the marriage ceremony. Profusely illustrated in an ukiyo-e style in black and white woodcut. Overall good condition in worn covers, fair to good impressions. [Attributions, etc., courtesy of R. Sawers] Not in Ryerson, Brown, Mitchell or Hillier. Not found, at least not under this title, in KSSM. Obviously unusual., Good Stock number: 86379.
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Imprint: 1822 [EHON] O^ishi Shu^ga, artist & Hokusai. SAN-O^ SHINKEI. Bunsei 5 [1822] N.P. 17.1 x 24.7 cm. Orihon folding album in the original blind-patterned covers with a brushed paper title label. 3 page preface, signed Shunyo^ Yu^jin Mo^hitsu, who appears to have been the editor. The first illustration of Fuji is signed O^ishi Shu^ga hitsu and Katsushika Hokusai hitsu. Our version has 34 double page images of Fuji. This interesting book of views of Fuji throughout the seasons exists in many varieties. Most have but 31 or 32 images, some have no postscript, others a two page preface signed by Kobayashi Cho^shu^. Mitchell lists a volume with the same title, but different content. Kerlen lists two different variations at page 573. The Ravicz copy described at Hillier 872 appears to be incomplete with only 15 views. The copy at hand here, however, is a very lightly printed version which credits Hokusai, as well as O^ishi Shu^ga. It is a bit rumpled and a few pages are marred with a few small ink spots but overall the condition is good, by no means a common book., Good Stock number: 88721.
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Imprint: 1800 [EHON] Keisai Masayoshi [Artist] SANSUI RYAKUGA SHIKI. Edo: Suwaraya Ichibei. Kansei 12 [1800]. 26.5 x 18.1 cm. Faded, chipped and soiled original light blue covers. The original title label is present, but much faded and partly torn away. Complete in 1 volume. 29 single page and 15 double page color illustrations. Ref. Brown p.124; Mitchell p.460,1; 93,4; Ryerson p.213; Hillier pp. 477,8, 480. This copy is much handled and thumbed, with some waterstaining and slight worming, as well. Obviously, a less than pristine copy, but its original loveliness still emerges. A well printed copy, with the dominantly pink/brown color scheme. retaining much of the delicate coloration lost in later, coarser re-issues. Complete: Stock number: 63479.
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Imprint: 1800 [EHON] Keisai Masayoshi, artist. SANSUI RYAKUGA SHIKI. Edo: Suwaraya Ichibei. Kansei 12 [1800]. 26.5 x 18.0 cm. 30 sheets. Printed floral pattern on the covers [probably not original, as the printed title on the inner front cover is not present in this copy]. 29 single page and 15 double page color illustrations. Ref. Brown p.124; Mitchell p.460,1; 93,4; Ryerson p.213; Hillier pp. 477,8, 480. This copy has a few stains and spots internally, and is a bit thumbed, but the printing is quite good and the coloring fair. This book of landscapes is one of the loveliest of Keisai's works., Good Stock number: 36160.
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Imprint: 1857 [EHON] Kumasaka TEKIZAN, artist. SANSUI KARA-E SHINAN Suharaya Mo^hei, et al., Ansei 4-5 [1857-8]. 2 volumes [Shohen, Ni-hen] Small format string- bound fukuro-toji binding in paper covers with a printed paper title label, 17.6 x 12 cm. Nanga-style color illustrations throughout. Mitchell refers to one volume in the BM. [Mitchell pp. 185, 460] Pleasant and gentle one page landscape studies. The condition is about very good, as are the colors and printing. Nanga works are by no means common and this is a particularly lovely example of the genre. 2 volumes., Very Good Stock number: 36213.
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Imprint: 1800 [EHON] Keisai Masayoshi [Artist] SANSUI RYAKUGA SHIKI. Edo: Suwaraya Ichibei. Kansei 12 [1800]. 26.1 x 18.1 cm. Faded, chipped and soiled original light blue covers. The original title label is present, but much faded and abraded. Complete in one volume. 29 single-page and 15 double- page color illustrations. Ref. Brown p.124; Mitchell p.460,1; 93,4; Ryerson p.213; Hillier pp. 477,8, 480. This copy is well handled and thumbed. The printing is good or better, and the color scheme leans to the delicate light blue, with sumi shading. The Sansui Ryakugashiki is one of Keisai's loveliest books. Complete:, Good Stock number: 86279.
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Imprint: 1880 [EHON] Takai Taiun. SANSUI GATEKI. 2 Vols., Tokyo, Meiji 13. 2 small, 19 x 12.5 cm volumes, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro toji. Unpaginated, with title page and colophon. Each volume with 20 sealed black and white woodcuts with sumi shading. These small landscapes in the Nanga style are delicately printed. In all, a slight work but a very charming one. It is unclear how much the people involved had to do with the Nanga revival of the time, but it is a graceful little book. Not in Mitchell. There is some water-staining to the preliminaries of volume one, which does not extend much beyond the front cover itself. The title labels are hand-brushed, the covers most probably original. The impressions are very good. Complete, 2 vols.:, Very Good Stock number: 37318.
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Imprint: 1879 [EHON] Asai O^sui, artist. SANSUI GAFU Zen. Tokyo: Kobayashi Kichigoro^, Meiji 12 [1879]. Small format, 22.4 x 14.4 cm, green covers, printed paper title label, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro toji. Black and white woodcut illustrations throughout, building up from simple design elements to complete landscapes in a modified nanga style with Maruyama elements. Some spotting to the covers and general wear. The impressions are good to very good. Mitchell pp. 459-60. Complete., Very Good Stock number: 36414.
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Imprint: 1910 [EHON] Takeuchi Seiho, artist. SEIHO-GA HAKU HITSU JUNISHI JO. n.p., n.p., n.d. [Kyoto & Tokyo: Yamada Unsodo, c. 1910-1912] 37.4 x 25.5 cm Orihon folding album of 12 full page color woodblocks. In stiff paper over board covers with a printed paper title label. A clean copy in which the tiger and ox prints have paper repairs. A few worm holes. Good impressions and colors. This set of double oban size prints (with center fold) of the 12 animals of the Zodiac represents one of the scarcest and most desirable of all 20th century ehon. Takeuchi Seiho was a genius and his collaboration with Unsodo a triumph. Mitchell did not see a copy but relied on the Ryerson description, Hillier did not see a copy. [Mitchell, p.464; Ryerson, p.428; Brown p.202], Good Stock number: 85133.
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[EHON MANUSCRIPT] Takeuchi SEIHO^, artist. SEIHO^ SHU^GA-JO^. n.p., n.d. An interesting album or original watercolur paintings, both monochrome and b+w. Those familiar with Seiho^'s important printed SHU^GA-JO^ will certainly recognise the paintings and the calligraphy. It would appear to be Seiho^, himself. What purpose this little oblong album [14.2 x 22.7 cm] served is more problematical. One could argue that a gifted disciple had copied from the master's printed work, but they would have had to be gifted indeed. 40 of the 48 images from the printed work are included, though not in the original order. The 4 calligraphed tables of contents are also included - their internal order is the same as the printed work. In any case a pretty work, with all the charm of the printed version and more. Stock number: 43400.
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Imprint: 1888 [EHON - BIRDS & FLOWERS] [Nakayama SUGAKUDO]. Shasei SHIJU-HACHI TAKA GAJO. Tokyo, et al., Hakubunsha, 1888. 35.8 x 23.4 cm. Orihon folding album, in cloth-covered boards with printed paper title label, of 48 color woodcut images of birds and flowers after designs done by Sugakudo, an important student of Hiroshige, for a series of prints printed circa 1860. This set from recut blocks was printed under the supervision of Nagao Keihitsu, for the publishing house Hakubunsha. Clearly, the same team of skilled engravers and printers who had worked on Taki Katei's album of birds, done the same year for Hakubunsha, worked on this album as well. The images are titled in both English and Japanese. The printing is exquisite, the colors lovely, in excellent impression and condition. Former owner's stamp on the front cover, brief title on the rear cover. Complete, as issued. Very scarce and lovely work. Stock number: 85105.
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Imprint: 1829 [EHON] O^ishi MATORA. SHINJI ANDO^ Zen Owari: Ko^baien n.d. [The preface is dated 1829]. 22.6 x 15.6 cm, fukuro toji, string-bound Japanese style. 22 sheets of black and white woodblock illustrations, most double- page in format. With an interesting combination of issue points compared to the Forrer "first" and later" impressions. There are 22 sheets in all, but none are numbered. The illustrations are line only, with no coloration. The colophon does not have the Oishi Matora seal, though it does list the calligrapher. The title label makes no mention of "shohen". The covers are somewhere between green-spotted and green-streaked. There is an ad page inside the rear cover which makes no mention of Eirakuya, but does mention KEISAI SO^GA, shohen and nihen; IPPITSU GAFU, shohen and RYO^HITSU GAFU, shohen. An interesting good early impression, in slightly worn but still quite good condition., Good Stock number: 51453.
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[EHON - SHUNGA] Anonymous. SHUNSHOKU KOI NO SHIKIRI. N.P. [Tokyo?] N.D. [late Meiji?] Orihon bound in silk brocade with printed paper title label. With ten double-page color woodcuts of couples in the act, as well as a double page illustration of various implements of pleasure by way of prologue and two double pages of elegantly calligraphed afterword. As is usual with the genre, there is no colophon or attribution of the art, but the style, dialogue and the faces and poses are very reminiscent of the Utamaro school. The couples are elegant, well-posed and surrounded by the printed text of their intercourse, verbal and otherwise. A few repaired folds, and one print has internal repairs, nevertheless very good, in very good impression and colors., Very Good Stock number: 55780.
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[EHON] Keisai Masayoshi, artist. SOKA RYAKUGA-SHIKI. Kyoto, Unsodo, N.D., with original Bunka colophon, but this is undoubtedly a 20th century reprint in color woodblock, (from the original blocks?) 1 volume, complete. Plain brown covers, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro toji, with the printed title label. 25.1 X 17.9 cm. The version at hand is part of the 20th century production of this work, demonstrating its ongoing popularity as a classic of Japanese book illustration. Keisai's color woodcuts of plants and flowers. The impressions are fair and late, but without the misa highlights of early editions. In excellent condition overall. This is a study piece and is priced accordingly. Stock number: 87676.
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Imprint: 1806 [EHON] Yamaguchi SOKEN. SOKEN GAFU Soka no Bu. 3 volumes, complete. Dark grey (replaced) covers with original printed title labels. String-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. 25.8 x 17.7 cm. Kyoto: Bunka 3 [1806] Illustrated in b+w and grey woodcut throughout. This is perhaps Soken's most successful ehon - illustrating a series of plants and grasses quite wonderfully. There is much use of block scraping to produce wonderful printing effects, especially on leaves and stems. The difficulty of the printing techniques means that this book always hovers on the edge of aesthetic disaster - when it is good it is very good, when it doesn't work it dissolves into pictorial chaos. Ours is very good. As for bibliographic details, our colophon is identical to the Mitchell, etc. copies [Mitchell 498-9], save that in this one the ads on the inside back cover are gone. Good (slightly later) impressions. In good condition overall, the slight worming has been expertly mended. A nice copy of a very scarce and important book. Complete., Good Stock number: 87495.
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Imprint: 1834 [EHON] O^nishi CHINNEN, artist. SO^NAN GAFU. Edo, Tempo^ 5 [1834]. 25.7 x 18.6 cm Yellow covers with karazuri ripple pattern. Printed paper title label. Covers differ, but the contents and colophon are otherwise identical to the Mitchell copy at p. 500. It should be noted that the colors of the prints are quite a bit brighter than those of the edition with yellow covers and blue medallions and it may be assumed to be a few years later. Slight soiling, else very good condition and impression. A cornerstone item for any Shijo^ collection. Complete., Very Good Stock number: 87619.
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Imprint: 1834 [EHON] Onishi CHINNEN, artist. SONAN GAFU. Edo, Kobayashi Shimbei, Osakaya Genbei, Tempo 5 [1834]. 10 9/16" x 7 1/4" Original blue-green round vegetal patterns on yellow covers. Worn title label. Identical to the Mitchell copy at p. 500. Slight soiling, very good overall condition. The lovely colors and impressions with delicate bokashi of an early printing. A cornerstone work of the Shijo school of illustration. Its famous print of mountain pines forms the cover illustration of Hillier's massive work on ehon. Complete, in a custom clasped chitsu case., Very Good Stock number: 88523.
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Imprint: 1832 [EHON] O^ishi Matora, artist. SO^GA HYAKUBUTSU. 2 vols. 22.4 x 16 cm, String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. In original blue and white patterned covers, printed paper title label. Osaka: Bunkaido, Tsurugaya Kuhei, Tempo 3 [1832]. [Brown, p.110; Ryerson, 391] The Mitchell copy at p.496 was bound in two volumes, as is this copy. In any event, our copy is complete with the inner front cover preface sheet, all the illustrations and the colophon. Hillier appreciates this little-known work (THE ART.... p.794) and so do we.... from beginning to end a wonderful collection of free and vibrant genre scenes. With the original title labels and covers. The lower half of the outside printed cover overlay is torn away, else very good condition, and printing. O^ishi Matora is an underappreciated artist, a master of many styles., Very Good Stock number: 88475.
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Imprint: 1818 [EHON] Yamaguchi SOKEN, artist. SOKEN SANSUI GAFU. Heian [Kyoto]: Bunka 15 [1818]. 2 volumes, 26.1 x 18.7 cm, buff paper covers, original printed title slips, bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji. The covers and slips are worn. See Mitchell, p.499. [This copy is identical in collation, save that Soken's seal is missing from the colophon page and there is no publishing information on the inside back cover.] Thus almost certainly a later printing. See also Hillier, volume one, pp.537-9. A well-printed later copy, good condition. A handsome and important book of landscapes printed with great elegance. Soken was one of Maruyama O^kyo^'s greatest disciples. 2 vols., complete., Good Stock number: 87843.
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Imprint: 1828 [EHON] Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828) O^SON GAFU, N.P., N.D. one volume, replaced white covers, no colophon. The preface is complete but out of order. String-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. 25.5 x 18.0. A landmark of Rimpa school ehon. For more on this book see Mitchell p.443, Hillier pp.661-665. Probably not a copy of the Izumiya edition, perhaps a later version of Eirakuya's production from the mid 19th century. The colors are nice, but the printing is later. Repaired, a worthy entry "placeholder" in a collection for this very important book. Still lovely despite its dimished state. Stock number: 88734.
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