Published by Mari Shobo, 2010
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover with dustjacket; 120 pages; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Published by 1894, 1894
Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB), Stockholm, Sweden
Signed
Oblong 8vo (15.4 x 22.4 cm). Leporello folded album with fifty photographs of okimono pieces. Pasted on good paper. Each photo depicts two ivory okimono. Numbered in pencil below the image and a list loosely inserted with numbers describing many of the pieces in English. Contemporary cloth binding. Dated and signed on front paste down, probably by Yoshida himself. With English translation in pencil. Unknown photographer. Some minor wear, the photographs are in good condition, some lightly faded.A unique piece showing an impressive collection of ivory okimono carved by Yoshida Soji. It seems he also made netsuke and other carved ivory items. Soji exhibited at least one ivory carving at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. Okimono (literary "placed object") can be made of wood, ivory, ceramic or metal. During the Meiji period, many okimono were for made for export to the West.
Seller: Antiquariat Thomas Mertens, Berlin, Germany
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Signierter brauner Bronze Hummer, Jizai Okimono (bewegliches Kunstobjekt) sehr schönes Objekt der japanischen Metallkunst, Original aus der Meiji-Ära um 1900 - 26 cm lang An der Unterseite des Schwanzes signiert Yasunosuke. Jedes Glied am Hummer ist separat gefertigt und voll beweglich, der Körper und die Vorderklauen sind mit einer Noppenstruktur versehen, um den Panzer nachzuahmen. Normale Altersspuren, alle Gelenke und Glieder vollständig und schön erhalten. Insgesamt mit schöner Alterspatina und guter Zustand.