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Tōkaidō Texts and Tales: Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada. Edited by Andreas Marks, 2015.

Tōkaidō Texts and Tales: Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada / Edited by Andreas Marks. — Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015].

Hardcover, green cloth stamped with title to front cover and spine, pictorial DJ, pp.: [10] 1-206.

Introduction / Andreas Marks -- An artistic collaboration: travelling the Tōkaidō with Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada / Laura W. Allen Folklore and legend in the fifty-three pairings along the Tōkaidō / Ann Wehmeyer The plates. Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui / transcription and translation by Ann Wehmeyer ; notes by Ann Wehmeyer and Andreas Marks.

ISBN: 9780813060217

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Tsuba Collection (Tsuba shūsei, 鐔集成) by Nakamura Tessei (中村鐵青), 1963 (Japanese).

A large hardcover volume, 370 x 265 x 53 mm, bound in burgundy cloth with pasted-in b/w photograph and gilt lettering to front, gilt lettering to spine, in plastic dust jacket, in a slipcase, in a cardboard shipping box, pp. [2] 1-522 [2], 128 leaves total; limited edition of 1000 copies. Author: Nakamura Tessei [中村鐵青] Seller's description: Tsuba Shusei by Nakamura. 1963. Of a limited edition of 1,000. Clothbound with plastic jacket, slipcase, and cardboard storage box, 11 ½ x 14 ½”, 522 heavy stock pages in Japanese. This is a very impressive book. Thousands of tsuba, from Kamakura to late Edo and arranged by school. are illustrated (24 in colour photos and the rest in black & white) and described. If there is a tsuba bible this might be it; there can’t be a more comprehensive book on the subject. The storage box is shelf worn, the slipcase is just a bit toned; the book is in excellentt condition. Produced by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc. [株式会社中央公論新社] Publisher: 銀集成刊行会 Production details: 鐵集成第617番昭和38年2月10日発行限定1,000部定価 10,000円オフセット単色印刷:マイク印刷オフセット原色印刷:大日本印刷著者中村鐵青製作中央公論事業出版発行所銀集成刊行会活版印刷:精興社製本:協和製本本文用紙:三菱製紙表紙:望月

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Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan / Edited by Miyeko Murase. — NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven (CT), London: Yale University Press, 2003.

Catalogue of the exhibition held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY from October 21, 2003, to January 11, 2004. Pagination: [i-vi] vii-xviii, [2]3-390, ils. Binding: 29 x 24 cm, grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket.

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Ukiyo-e prints and paintings: The primitive period, 1680–1745 / An exhibition in memory of Margaret O. Gentles; catalogue by Donald Jenkins. — Chicago: Art Institute Of Chicago, 1971.

Description: exhibition catalogue, softcover terra-cotta paper with lettered black label to front and black lettering to spine, black endpapers; pp.: [1-6] 7-131 [132] plus colour frontispiece and 5 colour plates outside pagination, 190 entries with b/w in-text illustrations. Front cover (in the octagonal black label): UKIYO-E | PRINTS AND PAINTINGS | THE PRIMITIVE PERIOD | 1680–1745 | THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO || Title-page: THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | UKIYO-E PRINTS AND PAINTINGS | THE PRIMITIVE PERIOD, 1680–1745 | An Exhibition in Memory of Margaret O. Gentles | November 6th–December 26th, 1971 | Catalogue by DONALD JENKINS || Foreword by Charles C. Cunningham, Tribute to Margaret O. Gentles by Jack V. Sewell. Contributors: Margaret O. Gentles (American, 1905 – 1969) Donald John Jenkins (American, b. 1931) Charles Crehore Cunningham (American, 1910 – 1979) Jack V. Sewell (American, 1923 – 2010)

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Ukiyo-e: A journey through the Floating World / Exhibition catalogue (Japan, Jan-Jul 2014). — The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2014.

Softcover volume 29.8 x 22.7 cm in publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, lettered in Japanese; pp.: [1-4] 5-365 [3], total 184 leaves; pp. 26-267 present 438 illustrations, text in Japanese and English. Reference in this collection: SVJP-0234.2018 – here it is also described as a diptych.

№ 358, p. 226. Bandō Mitsugorō III as Grand arbiter Kiyosumi and Arashi Koroku IV as Koganosuke.

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Utagawa Hiroshige. The Bay of Kuroto in Kazusa province, from the series ‘Views of famous places in the provinces’ / Fan print, 1855.

The Bay of Kuroto in Kazusa province [Kazusa Kuroto no ura] – an uncut fan print showing "Three women, wearing stylish cotton summer robes are shown in a skiff, admiring the view of Mount Fuji while looking back at the other passengers being helped into small boats". From the series: Views of famous places in the provinces [Shokoku meisho zue]. Ref: Sebastian Izzard. Important Japanese Prints 1830–1860 March 14–20, 2020 exhibition [LIB-2398.2020], №. 53. Not in Faulkner's Hiroshige Fan Prints, however, there are three other prints from the series, under № 95, 96 and 97 on p. 95. Artist: Utagawa Hiroshige [歌川広重] a.k.a. Andō Hiroshige [安藤広重] (Japanese, 1797 – 1858). Publisher: Iseya Sōemon [伊勢屋惣右衛門] (Japanese, c. 1776 – 1862). Date seal: 2/1855 Signed: Hiroshige ga. Censor's seal: aratame (certified) and date. Publisher's seal: Iseya Sōemon. Size: Aiban yoko-e uchiwa-e; 22.9 x 29.8 cm

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Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – 1865): His world revisited / Catalogue 17, Exhibition March 17-21, 2021. — NY: Sebastian Izzard, LLC., 2021.

Softcover, in pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.8 cm, 64 entries, with colour illustrations, some folding. Catalogue # 17 of the sales exhibition on March 17-21, 2021 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-182 [2], ils. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard Select illustrations (references in this collection): SVJP-0222.2016: A view of the dressing room of a Theater in Dōtonbori, Ōsaka.

SVJP-0105.2014: Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as the ghost of Seigen.

Utagawa Kunisada, a.k.a. Toyokuni III . Mitate sanjurokkasen no uchi

SVJP-0360.2022: Ichikawa Danjūrō VII.

SVJP-0361.2022: Beauty playing the shamisen beneath a mosquito net.

SVJP-0359.2022: Young woman checks her makeup in a mirror.

SVJP-0197.2015: Three Pleasures of Present-day Osaka (Tôsei Naniwa no sankô); left; centre, right.

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Yellow seto; Black seto (Japanese ceramics 3) [黄瀬戸瀬戸黒日本の陶磁 (3) 中央公論社]. — Tokyo: Chūōkōron-sha, 1974.

Hardcover volume, 35.3 x 27 cm, bound in grey cloth, blind stamped characters to front, brown characters to spine, in a glassine dust jacket, in a double slipcase, the outer case pictorial paper over cardboard, 36 x 28 cm, pp.: [4] [1] 2-88 (plates with photographs of 129 items), [2] 91-108 [3]. Seto ware [瀬戸焼] (Seto-yaki) – ceramics produced in and around the city of Seto in Aichi Prefecture. Yellow seto [黄瀬戸] (Kiseto) – a yellow glaze seto ware. Black seto [瀬戸黒] (Setoguro) – a black glaze seto ware. 日本の陶磁 – Japanese ceramics, series title. Contributors: Yasunari Kawabata [川端康成] (Japanese, 1924 – 1972) – author. Tetsuzo Tanikawa [谷川徹三] (Japanese, 1895 – 1989) – author. Seizo Hayashiya [林屋晴三] (Japanese, 1928 – 2017) – editor. Chūōkōron-sha [中央公論社] – publisher.

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М. В. Успенский. Нэцкэ / Рецензент В. И. Сисаури — Л.: Искусство, 1986.

Mikhail Uspensky. Netsuke. Title-page: М. В. Успенский | — | НЭЦКЭ | {blank} | «Искусство» | Ленинградской отделение | 1986 || Hardcover, pictorial glossy paper, 17.2 x 12.6 cm; pp.: [2] 3-231 [232], 160 in-text b/w illustrations plus 16 leaves with 36 colour plates (pp. 233-263 unpag.) [264 colophon]; total 264 pages. Print run: 25,000 copies. Contributors: Uspensky, Mikhail [Успенский, Михаил Владимирович] (Russian, 1953 – 1997) Sisauri, Vladislav [Сисаури, Владислав Ираклиевич] (Russian, b. 1944)

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