Toshikata (21 results)

Profuse colour and monochrome photographic plates, 132pp. Text in Japanese and English. 30.5 x 24cm. A very good hardback in dustjacket with original belly band.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. Title: Hanakai Modern Japanese Painting. 100 Year History of the Japan Art Institute Authors: Yokoyama Taikan. Kanzan Shimomura. Hishida Shunso. Kimura Buzan. Hashimoto Gaho. Weekly Toshihide. Teras.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A beautifully produced concertina-folding album (orihon) in its original gold cloth covered boards, subtly decorated with Japanese maple leaves, with illustrated red paper title panel to the front 18x25cm. This contains 13 original colour woodblock prints including the title page and prints consecutively numbered 1-12. Each measures 355x245mm, centre-folded, and captioned in red in English and Japanese. The covers are good only, fraying with some loss along the edges. The interiors are generally very good, yellowing slightly with some spotting, dusting to the title page especially, occasional creasing, and a couple of small dents to the surface of plate no. 9. This was issued to promote the Mitsukoshi department store. It had been founded as Echigo-ya in Tokyo in 1673, selling kimono door to door. Ten years later, it took the innovative approach of opening a shop that people could visit. It changed its name to Mitsui Gofuku in 1893, then to Mitsukoshi in 1904. Although no edition is stated, this was first issued c1893 captioned with the Mitsui name, then reissued in this form with the new name. The works are credited to the Meiji period Ukiyo-e artist Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908), who had been commissioned to prepare prints displaying Mitsui's / Mitsukoshi's fashions for each season. The title page features an open book with the main titles in Japanese, and a basket containing several flower varieties. Prints 1-12 feature very elegantly styled women and girls in seasonal dress, in diverse domestic or exterior settings in and around Tokyo. Of these, 2 are themed for Spring (1-2), 3 for Summer (3-5), 4 for Autumn (6-9), and 3 for Winter (10-12). They are captioned as follows: 1. Spring - 'Parting of school chums' // 2. Spring - 'An outing in a field' // 3. Summer - 'Keeping off cloth-moths' // 4. Summer - 'A cool breeze of evening' // 5. Summer - 'An evening blossom of Yakaiso (ball flower)' // 6. Autumn - 'Sketching out-door' // 7. Autumn - 'On a look out for a new season dress at Mitsukoshi Co.' // 8. Autumn - 'A walk to a country cottage' // 9. Autumn - 'A bright tint of maple foliage' // 10. Winter - 'A visit from a neighbor's petty favorite' // 11. Winter - 'A snowy morning' // 12. Winter - 'A walk with a pet dog'. (References: Some individual prints from the Mitsui edition can be seen on the Ukiyo-e online database, and from this edition on the Smithsonian's Asian Art Museum website as part of the Muller Collection).

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 5 books.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Toyo Ryojin presumably was  Ichijirō Shimizu. Very early biography of George Washington, focusing on the American Revolutionary War. The 6 illustrations by the famous artist Toshikata Mizuno: cover block is a lithography, other illustrations - woodblocks. Includes the story and the illustrations of Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays), legendary Independence War hero. Original paperboard cover with brown cloth spine. The cover edge is very slightly warn. The inside has very tiny creasing. Otherwise - very clean and nice copy. Near fine to fine condition. 17,9 x 12,2 cm. 108 p. Text in Japanese.

24,5 x 17,5 cm. Leporello with 16 col. double-page woodblock prints. Contemp. cloth boards, silver edges. Fine copy.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 108p Size: B5 Number of books: 108 sheets.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 48 My size: A5.

An album of 36 Japanese coloured woodblock prints, oban tate-e (35.5 x 24 cm.) some signed and dated, bound in concertina style with contemporary decorative silk boards; a very good copy. This beautiful album contains prints by various Meiji artists including two by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), 12 by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) and 13 by Mizuno Toshikata (1886-1908), depicting famous individuals throughout Japanese history, including Sano Tsuneyo (Kamakura period [1185-1333]) making a fire with pine branches, Minamoto Yoshitsune's mistress, Shizuka Gozen (1165-1211), the sumo wrestler Tanikaze Kajinosuke (1750-1795) and the legendary samurai Takasugi Shinsaku (1839-1867).

Portfolio. Condition: Very Good. Portfolio. Condition: Very Good. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1959. In Italian. 37 drawings 14.5 x 10 inches. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. In worn box. Size: Folio 12 - 15'' tall. Art::Asia Art::Painting by Artist History::Japan Italian 6089L.

Condition: New. SCARCE- CHA-NO-YU-Toshikata, Japanese Tea Ceremony,16 NEW POSTCARDS-FROM BEGINNING TO END-In folder-FES-1107-Not Dated-English introduction-CHA-NO-YU TEA CEREMONY -Originally a ritual of Zen Buddhist temple in Ancient China, the tea ceremony has completely Japanized in its final form-Harmony, Reverence, Purity and Tranquility- This series shows the full course of CHA-NO-YU TEA CEREMONY.

2° (38 x 26.5 cm), o. P. (38 Bl.), 36 mont. farb. Taf., Leporello zwischen seidenbezogenen Deckeln m. farb. Deckelill. in kart. Kassette m. farb. Deckelill., Kassette am Kopf etw. läd., tlw. unsauber u. an den Kanten etw. berieben, Deckel min. verzogen; gutes Ex. EA. Mit Vorwort (ital.) von Mario Teti. Reproduktionen der Drucke von Toshikata Osai im Stile des «Ukiyo-e», erstmals 1893 erschienen. 2200 gr. Schlagworte: Kunst - Aussereuropäisch, Japan.

Cloth on boards. Condition: Very Good. 35 by 24 cm. 38 color plates, including title, which is double paged. Genre scenes -- depictions of daily life in Japan, of people from all walks of life. Helpfully a prior owner created small cards with English translations of the picture titles. These are loose but all present. Some scattered light foxing. Moderate wear to fabric of binding. A tape repair to inside of binding, front board. Still, the images are bright as can be and deliciously vivid. The pictures invite one in, and are of a breathtaking beauty.

Japanese (Leporello) binding, booksize 34,5 x 34,5 cm, woodcuts folded in three, backed-up with paper, end-boards loose, with traces of light blue silk, endpapers goldsprinkled. Binding worn but interior very well preserved (only a small tear in the fold of one plate). The woodcuts depict famous battle scenes in the war and are all signed by the artist. Two plates bear the name of the editor. Among the artists; Kokunimasa (3), Mijita Toshihide (2), Mizuno Toshikata (2), Gekko Ogata (2), Yosai Nobukazu (4), Kobayashi Kiyochika (6) and one unidentified.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Ca. 1900s. A few light creases, minor stains to edges. Lightly attached to card. 1 leaf, 22.5x30.3cm.

Condition: very good. Akiyama Buemon 1894 Woodcut triptych 33x70cm, the three sheets joined and laid down. A bit marked and grubby. This is the first time, as far as I know, that war artists and journalists became stars of senso-e: war prints. I can't read the names of the two artists portrayed here but of course the best war artists never went near a war. I found no suggestion that Toshikata ever left his studio.

[Japan no date, circa 1900]. Single color woodblock Kuchi-e print, 22.4 x 30.8 cm.,very clean nice example, artist's red cinnabar Hanko [seal], with rare silver pigment & grafrage, 2 original folds, large example. RARE FIRST & ONLY EDITION . *** **** *** . . A SUPERB AND STUNNING VIEW OF A MEIJI BEAUTY . * THE ARTIST: MIZUNO Toshikata [1866-1908]: He was a pupil of the eminent and most famous Taiso Yoshitoshi and later Watanabe Seitei who taught him Kacho [bird & flower] drawing. He used the "Go" [studio names] Osai and Shosetsu. . Per Stephens, in the ".early 1880's Toshikata began to contribute illustrations to newspapers .& magazines. He eventually became recognized as a premier illustrator.he would gradually move away from his work .to concentrate on his own painting.his individual prints. better known in the West for his reportage of the personalities ad events revolving around the Sino-Japanese war[1895]." This period stimulated a revival in woodblock printmaking. He was also many elegant Bijin [beautiful] women's portraits of the epoch, the turn-of-the century through circa 1905-06. . *** THE TENDER PASTEL COLORS & SPECIAL PRINTING TECHNIQUES: . The colors are pastels, tenderly applied, with two locations of the use of the very rare silver pigment in her fan and again in her Obi [sash]. There is some very rare gauffrage [blind embossing] in her flowing open Kimono which can only be seen by scrutinizing the print carefully. These two rare techniques are seldom found in prints of this period. It takes great technical skill to use the silver pigment which is heavy and difficult to apply and make stick. The gauffrag technique requires no pigment and is vigorously rubbed from the verso with a Baren [an embossing tool used in woodblock printing], with much pressure to impress the paper with nothing buy the impression.subtle to say the least. . *** THE SUBJECT: This is a wistful perspective on a beauty taking rest on the balcony or verandah on a warm spring day, note the blossoming flowers in the background. She holds a fan in her right hand and has left her outer cover Kimono open and flowing to allow the air to cool her. The bamboo screen in the background is rotating against the wind, indicating a fresh breeze is blowing, her Kimono has caught the wind and is flowing with the away from the wind. . The artists' Hanko [seal/chop] is in the lower left corner, in red cinnabar oval with his two Kanji characters: "Toshi Kata." . *** CONDITION: As usual this Kuchi-e was removed from a magazine or book, as typical, it has the expected 2 folds; the lower appears as a line from the front, the upper is invisible. . The verso [back side] is clean, the print is free from stain, or other distractions. See Merritt below on Kuchi-e details and examples. . *** NOTE: Color scans are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCES: . STEPHENS, Amy R. ed.: THE NEW WAVE: Twentieth Century Japanese Prints From the R.O. Muller Collection, pp.16, 88, 92-93 . * MERRITT, Helen. et al.: GUIDE TO MODERN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS: 1900-1975, biography on p.94. . --. WOODBLOCK KUCHI-E PRINTS: Reflection of Meiji Culture, pp.209-210, 189, 209, 219, et al. many color plates. * BROWN, Kendall H. et al.: SHIN-HANGA: New Prints in Modern Japan, pp.26, 27, 59 + color illustrations. . *.

En feuilles. Condition: Très bon. édition originale. Bois colorié, 3 feuilles assemblées. 36 X 72,5 cm.