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                                Japanese Arts and Culture


Alcock, Sir Rutherford. The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three
Years' Residence in Japan. NY: Harper & Bros., 1863. Volume 1 of two.
Fold-out map; numerous illustrations. Cloth, w/slight wear at the corners,
top/bottom of spine. $15

Arms and Armor of Ancient Japan: An Historical Survey. Los Angeles: Mus.
Art Patrons & S. CA To-Ken Kaj, 1964. Spiral bound softcover. Dampstain to
cover and gutter of the first 20pp. Numerous bw illustrations of swords,
tsuba. 186 examples catalogued and described. Bibliography; glossary. $25

Boites a encens japonaises redecouvertes: La collection de kogo de Georges
Clemenceau. [Japanese incense boxes rediscovered: The Georges Clememceau
kogo collection]. Montreal: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, nd. 94
examples illustrated, along with their stamps; textual information on each
work; sel. bibliography. Stiff wraps. VG. $25

Bornoff, Nicholas. Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage & Sex in Contemporary
Japan. NY: Pocket Books, 1991.  1st ed. An examination of contemporary sex
customs in Japan. VF+/NF.  $15

Brownell, Clarence Ludlow. The Heart of Japan: Glimpses of Life and Nature
Far From the Traveller's Track in the Land of the Rising Sun. NY: McClure,
Phillips, 1903. First edition. Decorative cloth. A few, occasional
underlinings and the bookplate of a women's club library; numbers on the
spine. VG. $18.50

[Burke Collection}. Japanese Art: Personal Selections from The Mary and
Jackson Burke Collection. FL: The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens,
1993. Catalogue of one of the most outstanding private collections of
Japanese fine and decorative arts.Sftcvr w/pictorial dj; unpaginated;
illustrated with 21 color  and numerous bw plates; bibliography; catalogue
of 54 works. VF+. $25

Cahill, James[essay]. The Works of Tomioka Tessai. Japan: Kiyoshi Kojiin
Seichoji, 1968. Tessai [1837-1924] was long unknown in the West but is now
recognized as one of the world's masters of early 20th century painting. 65
b&w plates and 2 in color; essay by Cahill. Softcover. VG+. $25

The Catalogue for the exhibition of Art Objects: Rare Paintings, Screens
and Other Art Objects. Kyoto: T. Shimo, nd. Wraps; unpaginated; 30 lots
described. Museum library w/d stamp. $10

Dalby, Liza. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. New Haven: Yale, 1993. First
edition. The history of the Kimono, its uses, aesthetics and social
meanings.  384pp. Illustrated with numerous line drawings and halftones.
VF/VF. $35

Del Mar, Walter. Around the World Through Japan. NY: Macmillan, 1902. Clth
somewhat wrn and soiled from age. Interior, however, VG, w/numerous photos.
$15

Doe, Paula. A Warbler's Song in the Dusk: The Life and Work of Otomo
Yakamochi [718-785]. CA: U CA Press, 1982. 1st ed., dec cloth. The life and
work of this Eighth Century poet. AN. $15

Drexler, Arthur. The Architecture of Japan. NY: MOMA, 1955. Japanese
architecture, from pit dwellings to contemporary bank offices. Included is
a 25pp supplement on the Japanese house shown at MOMA during the summers of
1954 and 1955. Profusely illustrated. NF/VG. $40

Field, Henry M., DD. From Egypt to Japan. NY: Scribner, Armstrong, 1877.
1st ed in green, pebbled clth, w/minor spotting on rear and slight
shelfwear. Field wrote a number of books about his travels. VG+. $35

Fisher, Galen M.  Creative Forces in Japan. NY: Missionary Education Mvt.,
1923. wraps, w/two sm chps at fore-edge; slt wear to sp. 248pp; map of
Japan and Korea; 15 photos; owner's name on ffep. VG.  $15

Forrer, Matthi, ed.  Essays on Japanese Art Presented to Jack Hillier.
London: Robert G. Sawers, 1982.Pictorial paper over boards. 23 essays on
various aspects of Japanese art. 188pp; profusely illustrated; select list
of publications by Jack Hillier. The frontis is a tipped-in woodblock print
by  Jacob Pins. F+. $35

Grilli, Elise.  Golden Screens Paintings of Japan. NY: Crown, nd. Stiff
wraps in dj w/a few sm trs. Illus in b&w and 36 tissue covered colored
plates. But for dj defects, VG+.  $12.50

Hamilton, John D. The Peabody Museum Colection of Japanese Sword Guards,
with Selected Pieces of Sword Furniture. Salem, MA: The Peabody Museum,
1975. Softcover; 43pp; 6 color plates, numerouse bw illustrations, each
with an informative description; catalogue index. Fine. $25

Hauge, Victor and Takako. Folk Traditions in Japanese Art. Tokyo: Kodansha,
1978. 1st ed, sm folio. Cat. of "... the first major traveling exhibition
of objects drawn from Japan's great folk traditions." 272pp; prof. illus.
Chron.; cat.; gloss.; biblio. But for rem. mk on top edge,  NF+/NF.   $75

Eikoh Hosoe: Photographs 1960-1980. Rochester, NY: Dark Sun Press, 1982.
Wraps; 13 full-page duotones. Exerpts from writings by Hosoe, Yukio
Mishima. Biographical information. VG+. $15

Hotei: japanese prints. Holland: Chris Uhlenbeck, nd. 8x6; softcover. 59
prints illustrated in b&w, with complete description and prices [in
Gilders]. Fine. $8.50

Illustrated Catalogue of...Art Treasures From Japan. Boston: MFA, 1936.
Gilt-stamped bds,[ covered w/rice paper?]; coated paper; sm 8vo; very sltly
rubbed at lower fore-edge crnr; owner's name on ffep, o/w NF. An important
historical catalgue.  $22.50

Ishida, Mosaku, et al. Japanese Buddhist Prints. Tokyo&Palo Alto: Kodansha,
1967. Folio; 195pp, with 32 color plates and 162 in b&w. Eps are very nice
rice paper. Arn. N152. OP. Fine in like dj. $175

The Japan of the Shoguns: The Tokugawa Collection. Mintreal: MMofFA, 1989.
222pp; 246 color plates, numerous b&w illustrations. Essays by Yoshinobu
Tokugawa, Harold Bolitho, Christine Guth, Anne Nashimura Morse, Richard L.
Wilson, and Ann Yonemura. Chron. chart of the Edo Period; glossary; index.
Softcover, in dj. A lavish collection. VF+. $35

Japanese Costume Catalogue. Japan: np, nd.  Catalogue of traditional
Japanese women's costume. Stiff wraps; 178pp of color photos of models,
fashions, and fabrics, and traditional Japanese art. Text in Japanese. NF.
$15

Keene, Donald, ed. Anthology of Japanese Literature. NY: Grove, 1955. Two
volumes in one. Vol. 1 -- Earliest era to Mid-nineteenth century. Vol. 2 --
>From 1868 to the present day. NF/VG+. $15

Kenrick, Vivienne. Horses in Japan. London: J.A. Allen, 1964.  First
edition. 196pp;  2 color plates, numerous bw ilustrations. The first and
best work on the subject. VF+/VF+. $75

Kojiro, Yuichiro. Forms in Japan. Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1965.
184pp; profusely  illustrated with photos evoking the Japanese philosophy
of design. NF/VG. $40

Kuwayama, G. The Golden Age of Japanese Screen Painting. CA: LACMA, 1973.
Wraps;  7 screens illus. in b&w, one fold-out. NF. $8.50

Lane, Richard. Hokusai: Life and Work. NY: Dutton, 1989.  First Am. ed. The
first detailed monograph on Hokusai. A catalogue of all the prints and
books; comprehensive biblio. 93 color, 270 b&w illus., and 242 appendix
illus. Sm. remainder mk on bottom edge, o/w VF+/VF+. $40

Lee, Sherman E. Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art. OH; Cleveland
Museum, 1983.  292pp; 138 rare and important paintings illus in color and
b&w. Index, list of catalogue entries laid in. F/NF. $35

Link, Howard A. Primitive Ukiyo-e: from the James A. Michener Collection in
the Honolulu Academy of Arts. HI: U HI Press, 1980.  Early woodblock prints
from the Michener collection. 322pp. Prof illus in b&w and col. F/NF+. $65

Link, Howard A. The Theatrical Prints of the Torii Masters.... Honolulu:
HAA, 1977. 1st ed.  Cat of the exhib. Notes; biblio. F+/NF.    $12.50

Maraini, Fosco. Meeting with Japan. NY: Viking, 1960. 1st American ed;
clth. Illus w/154 b&w and col photographs. NF+-F.  $10

Masterpieces of Ukiyoe from the British Museum. London: The British Museum,
1985. Softcover, square 4to. More than 200 color plates, including the
Hillier Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books. Introduction, essay in
English; the rest of the text in Japanese. Fine. $35

Messer, Thomas, and Anne L. Jenks. Contemporary Painters of Japanese Origin
in America. Boston: ICA, 1958. Wraps. Catalogue of 35 works by 7 artists.
Essay; artists' biographies. F. $12.50

Neuer, Roni, Herbert Libertson, and Susugu Yoshida.  Ukiyo-e: 250 Years of
Japanese Art. NY: Gallery Books, 1990. One of the better-known histories of
the Japanese woodblock. Superbly illus in color.  F/F. $45

Okazaki, Joji. Pure Land Buddhist Painting. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1977. 1st
edition. 201pp; biblio. Prof illus in b&w and col. NF+ in like dj.  $25

Paine, Robert Treat, and A. Soper. The Art and Architecture of Japan.
England: Pantheon, 1955. 1st ed in red clth. 316pp;xviii; maps; chron;
notes; glossary; biblio; 47 "figures"; 173pp of plates. Owner's nm ,some
underlining in pencil. VG+.     $40

Reischauer, Edwin O. The Japanese. Cambridge & London: The Belknap Press,
1981. 13th printing of Reischauer's noted study of the Japanese. NF+/VG+.
$10

Reischauer, Harin Matsukata. Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American
Heritage. Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 1986. First edition. NF+ in a dj
w/a closed tear. $15

Richie, Donald. The Japanese Movie: An Illustrated History. Tokyo:
Kodansha, 1966. 1st ed, 4to. Slight dampstain damage to lower corners of
pp127-129; also top half of pp 169-170 missing. $18.50

Russell, Oland D. The House of Mitsui. Boston: L,B, 1939. First edition;
Cloth, w/color illus. tipped on; color frontis' photos. Exlib w/usual
markings [no pocket]. The history of Japan's equivalent of the Rothschilds,
the Vanderbilts, etc. Cloth. $10

Scott, A.C. The Kabuki Theatre of Japan. London: George Allen & Unwin,
1955.  First edition, w/bookplate of reviewer Jay Carmody. A study of the
history of Kabuki and the various forms of Japanese theatre. Illustrated.
Sel. biblio. Cloth. NF. $25

Seiroku, Noma  The Arts of Japan: Ancient and Medieval. Tokyo: Kodansha,
1972. Folio in decorative cloth. 236pp; 4 maps; 33 tipped in color plates
and 165 other illus.; rice paper eps&pds. VF in like dj. Housed in
publisher's slipcase. OP. $100

Shinno, Tat. Flower Arrangements to Copy. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966.
Clth. 246pp of color and b&w drawings of Japanese flower arrangements. NF+.
$10

Soulie, Bernard. Japanese Art of Loving. Fribourg: Magna, 1993.  Illus bds
[as issued].  Prof illus in color w/repros of Japanese erotic art. As new.
$20

Stern, Harold P.  Birds, Beasts, and Bugs: The Nature of Japan. NY: Abrams,
1976.Sstiff wraps. Stern's classic study of nature in Japanese art. 196pp;
biblio. NF+. $20

Takacs, Zoltan. Francis Hopp Memorial Exhibition, 1933. Budapest: Hungarian
Museum of Fine Arts, [1933]. Wraps, w/tape reinforced spine. Museum w/d
stamp. $12.50

Tashi, Yorimoto. Timidity: How To Overcome It. NY: Funk & Wagnells, 1916.
Cloth, w/two stains on the front; dampstain to top edge of last 60pp. $10

Teller, Michael C. IV.  Woodblock Prints by Un'ichi Hiratsuka. Muscarelle
Museum of Art, nd. Wraps. 20 plates by one of the world's foremost living
woodblock artists. 86 works catalogued. Discrete MFA stamp, o/w F. $10

Terukazu, Akiyama. Japanese Painting. NY: Skira, 1977.  Stiff wraps. Pbk
reprint of the 1961 h/c ed. 216pp; prof illus in b&w and color. NF.  $18.50

Teshigahara, Sofu. Coloured Pictures of Representative Flower Arrangements
by Sofu. Tokyo: Ryufusha, 1950. Signed by the author. 27 tipped-in color
plates with instructions, printed in English and Japanese on rice paper, on
the facing page. VF+. $25

Ukiyoe-Japanese Wood Block Prints. East Dennis, MA: Eldrid's, 1975. Wraps;
Auction catalogue, w/prices realized. Tp clpd. $15

Ushikubo, D.J.R. Life of Koyetsu. Kyoto: np, 1926. Koyetsu, a 16th century
artist, was skilled in lacquer-work, pottery, calligraphy, wood carving and
many other arts. The book, 6" x 9", is covered in silk, w/a design
reproduced from a Koyetsu painting and is bound after an ancient native
style.  64pp; 13 b&w illus. The book is slightly warped from exposure to
dampness. However, there is only one very faint dampstain or the rear
pastedown. $45

Welcome to the American Doll-Messengers. Tokyo:  Committee on International
Friendship Among Children in Japan, August, 1927. sewn wraps with paper
label. 44pp; 13 photos. Commemorates an exchange of dolls between Japanese
and American girls. Interesting and curious. Some fading to covers;
chipping to label. The photos are not of top quality, otherwise the
interior is NF+. $25

Yamada,  Chisaburoh F. Decorative Arts of Japan. Tokyo&Palo Alto: Kodansha,
1964.  First edition. Lg. 4to.  262pp; 107 tipped in color plates of
pottery, metalwork, textiles, and lacquerware. Chronology.  An essential
reference. NF+/NF+. $175