Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1899 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 42 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: jpn.
Published by The Asahi Shimbun Company, 1997
Seller: Sunny Day Bookstore, SINGAPORE, Singapore
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Published by Futami shobo, 1991
Seller: Sunny Day Bookstore, SINGAPORE, Singapore
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Published by Edo: Itoya Yohei, ca. 1850s. Later printing., 1850
Art / Print / Poster
No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) is one of the legends of woodblock printing. The present print is a comical composition of fighting bodies intertwined like snakes in ridiculous poses. The inscription in the lower right specifies the genre: 14 bodies looking like 35 . The picture served as a comical brain-teaser. Such Arcimboldo-esque compositions were not unique in Kuniyoshi s oeuvre. This way of depicting figures in motion is but one of numerous examples of the vivid imagination and great virtuosity that brought Kuniyoshi fame as a master illusionist. Text in Japanese. 1 leaf. 25,4 x 36,7 cm. Colour woodblock print. Margins cut out, creasing in the center of the page. Very minor stains on the bottom. Overall very good to near fine condition.
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
17 double-page & four single-page woodcuts, all color-printed. 12; 11; 10 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. embossed & color-decorated semi-stiff boards (boards a little rubbed & soiled), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. [Edo: ca. 1846]. First edition and very rare; there is no copy listed in WorldCat. Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), was "one of the great Ukiyo-e artists of the nineteenth century."-Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, p. 890. Kuniyoshi also had a substantial output of erotic books as well. During the Tenpo Reforms of 1841-43, one of Kuniyoshi's prints was confiscated due to its politically charged content; he was fined, and his reputation as an artist suffered. By the time of the publication of the present book, the repressive conventions of the Tenpo Reforms had relaxed, and Kuniyoshi regained his prominence as an artist. Following one of the frequent fires in the famous pleasure quarters of Yoshiwara, often started by the prostitutes in an effort to free themselves, many brothels temporarily re-established themselves in other locations throughout Edo. Our book depicts a series of brothels dispersed through the greater Edo area. The double-page color-printed title contains a popularity chart of prostitutes with a facing image of two cats mating on the ground and a bird in the sky pursuing another bird. The first double-page woodcut depicts prostitutes behind a latticed window in a brothel named Maizuruya, relocated to Kamakura, with bustling men and women passing by on the street. The next double-page woodcut depicts a busy stairwell and hallway in the brothel. In this image are particularly effective silhouettes of figures behind a shoji sliding door. These are followed by a series of fine colored woodcuts of men and women (including many "star" prostitutes, known as oiran) engaged in sex in various brothels, featuring a peeping Tom, a fight scene involving a jealous man breaking up an intimate moment between a geisha and another man (who has just ejaculated), secret encounters, a brutal rape scene of a tied-down woman and four hoodlums, a courtesan masturbating her blue-collar client, etc. The color printing throughout is rich, with ample use of saturated colors, metallic pigments including gold, and some embossing. Fine set, with some minor thumbing. ⧠Timothy Clark et al., eds., Shunga. Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art (British Museum: 2013), p. 245.