Hardcover, publisher’s green cloth with black lettering to spine, 335 × 243 mm, in a slipcase. Printed on cream paper (text) and glossy coated paper (plates).
Collation: blank flyleaves at front and back; [1–6], 7–100 pp. of text (paginated); 184  unpaginated plates on glossy paper (some printed on both sides), interleaved with sectional titles; plus a final unpaginated leaf with contents. Text in German.

Text sections include:

• Vorwort des Herausgebers (p. 7)

• Basil W. Robinson, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Kyôsai (p. 11)

• Janette Ostier, Hanabusa Itchô (p. 15)

• Notes on the artists and plate descriptions (beginning p. 22), covering:

  • Plates 1–24: Itchô

  • Plates 25–46: Hokusai

  • Plates 47–78: Kuniyoshi

  • Plates 79–114: Kyôsai

  • Plates 115–133: Chinnen

  • Plates 134–135: Eisen and Hiroshige

  • Plates 136–142: Kunisada

  • Plates 143–144: Hokkei

  • Plates 145–148: Hokuba

  • Plates 149–157: Isai

• Horst Janssen, Kopien nach Kyôsai und Hokusai (Plates 164–184; text begins p. 89)

• Notizen zur Technik des Farbholzschnitts (p. 96)

• Literatur (p. 98).

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Meisterwerke japanischer Handzeichnung at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1975.
With support from the Griffelkunst Association.

Printing: Trump-Mediäval typeface, by Hans Christians Druckerei, Hamburg; offset lithography by Nordrepro, Flensburg; clichés by Gries K.G., Ahrensburg. Bookbinding by Verlagsbuchbinderei Ladstetter, Hamburg.

The deluxe edition included eight different signed and numbered etchings by Horst Janssen.

ISBN 3-7672-0383-9.

Note: Plates and sectional titles are unpaginated; plate numbers are used for reference.

Contributors:

• Editor: Gerhard Schack (German, 1929-2007), art historian and curator specialising in Japanese painting and hand-drawn works.

• Essayist: Basil W. Robinson (British, 1912-2005), curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, specialist in Japanese art and Islamic arms and armour.

• Essayist: Janette Ostier (French, 1921-2014), artist and researcher focused on Japanese painting of the Edo period.

• Artist: Horst Janssen (German, 1929-1995), renowned graphic artist, printmaker, and draftsman, known for reinterpreting traditional Japanese motifs.

Note on Plate 67:
Plate 67 (Szene im Yoshiwara) is misattributed as an independent brush drawing. It corresponds to a preparatory sketch (shita-e) for a fan print (uchiwa-e) by Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, fl. c. 1850–1880), a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861). The related finished drawing is preserved as SVJP-0491.2025, in this collection, depicting courtesans and kamuro on the rooftop terrace of the Goseirō building in the New Yoshiwara. The misidentification likely resulted from limited knowledge of Japanese art and print production practices at the time, particularly within the Emile Javal collection, which is known for significant misunderstandings and misattributions regarding Japanese art and crafts.

	SVJP-0491.2025. Utagawa Yoshitora. Courtesans at the Goseirō Building, New Yoshiwara / Preparatory Drawing for a Fan Print, c. 1870.

67. Kuniyoshi: Scene in Yoshiwara (p. 48)
Brush drawing for a fan leaf 24 × 31 cm

Repr.: Dessins et Livres Japonais, Geneva 1972 no. 81
Exh.: Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva 1972
Former collection Emile Javal, Janette Ostier

A courtesan, accompanied by her two apprentices (kamuro), prepares for the tea ceremony. On the brazier at the front right, the water is already steaming.