Pageant of Japanese Art. by Tokyo National Museum - 1952-54

Tokyo, Japan: Toto Shuppan Company, Ltd., 1958. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 169 pages, indexed. Hardcover in grey and blue paper wrapped boards. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Covers are scuffed, with two small marks at the lower edge of the front cover. The front hinge has a small tear at the top near the headcap, and the foot of the spine is bumped and abraded. Blue pencil marks inside rear cover. Page 51 has had the lower right corner of the page torn off. Pages are toned. Illustrations throughout.

Toto Shuppan; Charles Tuttle , 1958. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 12 mo., hardcover, VG in about fine silver and blue pictorial dj. Popular edition. Unabridged.Third volume of projected 6-volume set; notable for tipped-in color plates. 189 pp. 3 color plates, 47 b & w plates; 137 Text Illustrations Includes a history of Japanese sculpture by Yutaka Tazawa. and glossary at back.

Toto Bunka, 0000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Very Good condition, without dust jacket. Green cloth. Fourth volume of projected 6-volume set; notable for tipped-in color plates. Edited by the museum's staff members. Extra listing of plates present.Illustrated by 50 color & b/w plates.

Toto Bunka, 0000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Very Good condition, without dust jacket. Green cloth (spine lettering flaked). Third volume of projected 6-volume set; notable for tipped-in color plates. Edited by the museum's staff members. Extra listing of plates present.Illustrated by 50 color & b/w plates.

Toto Bunka, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Very Good condition in Very Good dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Some rubbing/fading to jacket. 107 pp+plates. Second volume of projected 6-volume set; notable for tipped-in color plates (apparently some from woodblocks). Edited by the museum's staff members. Extra listing of plates present.Illustrated by 50 color & b/w plates.

Tokyo National Museum. Pageant of Japanese Art. Toto Bunka, Tokyo 1952. Folio, 6 vols, in fine orig. cloth w/ printed djs, mostly vg, some with small closed tears. Each approx. 200 pp, illus. throughout. Vol. I, Painting; Vol. II, Painting 2; Vol. III, Sculpture; Vol. IV, Ceramics and Metalwork; Vol V, Textiles and Lacquer; Vol. VI, Architecture and Gardens. Arntzen I563.

Tokyo: Toto Bunka Co., Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Complete in six volumes. Volume I: Painting 1 (50 plates, including 10 tipped-in color plates), Volume II: Painting 2 (50 plates, including 10 tipped-in color plates), Volume III: Sculpture (50 plates, including 3 tipped-in color plates), Volume IV: Ceramics and Metalwork (50 plates, including 10 tipped-in color plates), Volume V: Textiles and Lacquer (50 plates, including 10 tipped-in color plates), Volume VI: Architecture and Gardens (50 plates, including 4 tipped-in color plates). A ll plates are in excellent condition. Five of the six volumes have plate lists laid in. First edition. Each volume is very good or better in a very good (age toning, minor edge wear) dust jacket. Additional tipped-on color plate on the front panel of each dust jacket. .

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 240 x 210 mm), 116 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Catalogue for a U.S. traveling exhibition of 46 Japanese artists. Short bios of each artist, along with black-and-white illustrations of their works. The catalogue also features 13 color illustrations at the beginning of the book. Introduction by the curator, William S. Lieberman. CONDITION: Light edge wear and soiling to wrappers, toning to page edges. Very Good.

N. Nomura & Co., Ltd., 1986. Book. Like New. Boxed Set. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A hardcover book and a softcover book in a cloth-covered box, all in like-new condition. Clamshell box is covered in natural-covered linen with brown lettering to spine and brown facsimile signature on top. Hardcover with three-quarter charcoal-gray cloth with blue marbled (faux) boards; no text other than a tipped-in plate with title, etc. in English; pages are facsimile reproductions of the sketched art--b&w and color of Leda and Swan; no title on binding. Softcover is staplebound with blue cardstock cover with title etc. in English on front; approx. 27 pages; b&w photo frontispiece of artist; 7 plates of art; text in Japanese. Books are about 9-1/2" by 6-1/4". Box is 10-1/2" by 6-3/4"..

Book cover like new, slight wear at end caps - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new.
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The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly 1000 years ago, making it the oldest work on Japanese gardening; in fact, the oldest book on gardening in the world! In this edition of the Sakuteiki, the authors provide both an English-language translation of this classic work; and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening. A Japanese court noble wrote the Sakuteiki during the Heian period (794-1184). During this critical era in Japanese history cultural influences on poetry, clothing-and gardening-that had been imported from China and Korea over the previous centuries were reexamined and reinterpreted into their unique Japanese forms. The Sakuteiki contains the first systematic record of this new… Read More

Rosemary Bandini, London, 1999, Fine Hardcover / Near Fine Dustjacket, 174 pages, 8.75" x 11.25", slight edgewear on dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight. Collector Harriet Szechenyi concentrated on collecting "netsuke" of animals and mythical beings.

NY: Braziller, 1988. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Braziller, 1988, first printing. Folio, 10 1/4" x 14 1/2", 192pp., illustrated with 91 full color plates. Fine in near fine. price clipped dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

New York: Asia Society Museum / Harry N. Abrams: 2010. First edition / First printing. Illustrated laminated boards in die-cut illustrated slipcase. Very fine in a very fine slipcase.

Stated First Edition.
Book cover like new - pages clean and unmarked, slight tanning at edges – spine like new.
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The Tokaido -- the name of this highway today epitomizes a golden age of Japan's past. This "Eastern Sea Road", which connected the emperor's capital in Kyoto and the seat of the shogun's administration in Edo (now Tokyo) was heavily traveled in all seasons; the numerous prints and guidebooks about the Tokaido represent the time of prosperity and peace when even the average citizen could undertake the adventure of travel along this highway. It was Hiroshige who immortalized the Tokaido. In the famous prints of the fifty-three stages reproduced in this book, this master artist of the ukiyo-e print captured the beauty, romance, adventure, mystery, and joy - all the myriad and glowing facets of the people and places, in all seasons and times of day, of the Tokaido highway. Hiroshige's… Read More

Stated First Edition.
Book cover like new, slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear, price-clipped. Cardboard slipcase near new, light soil/shelf wear.
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From flyleaf: Between the years 1814 and 1878 there was published in Japan a series of woodblock printed volumes entitled Hokusai Manga, or Hokusai's Sketches from Life, which was destined to be one of the most popular art publications ever issued anywhere in the world. With its rich tapestry of life as it was lived in the boisterous Tokyo of the day and its magical evocation of the beauties of the Japanese countryside, it was an immediate best-seller in Japan, and then, upon the West's discovery of Japanese art, went on to win the hearts of people everywhere. It is from this amazing book, amazing both in execution and breadth of scope, that the… Read More

Kodansha, 2009. Paperback with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is in Japanese. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Very light scuffing along to top edges of the dust jacket. Small tear on the top right corner of the bottom black banner on the front cover. No markings on the inside of the book.Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Kodansha International, 1986. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine DJ. Minor shelf and handling wear to DJ. Else Fine. Photo is of the copy at Barbed Wire Books.