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Yip Cheong Fun’s Pictorial Collection
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartYip Cheong Fun
[Singapore]: [Yip Cheong Fun], [1985].Late career monograph of the Singaporean photographer Yip Cheong Fun. This copy signed and dated by the photographer.
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Hid in Prison Houses. An S.O.S. from the Women and Girls of Japan
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartJapan Rescue Mission
Birkenhead: Japan Rescue Mission, No date.Anti-prostitution fundraising pamphlet issued by the Japan Rescue Mission, founded in 1920 by Christine Penrod, formerly superintendent of the W.C.T.U.’s rescue home at Okubo, Tokyo. The Mission opened its own home in Tokyo the same year, supported by prayer bands in England, Australia, Africa and the United States (The Christian Movement in Japan, Korea and Formosa, 1923, p. 373). This copy carries a typescript imprint directing enquiries and donations to the Brisbane lay preacher William James Tunley, 228 Albert Street, evidence of the Mission’s fundraising network extending to Queensland. A single institutional holding recorded in OCLC, at the British Library.
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Women in Mughal India (1526-1748 A.D.)
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRekha Misra
Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1967.Scholarly historical study of the role and status of women in the Mughal Empire, based on the author’s doctoral thesis at the University of Allahabad. This copy from the collection of the controversial Tattersalls heir, Prof. V.J.A. Flynn.
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The Mughal Emperor Humayun
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRama Shanker Avasthy
Allahabad: University of Allahabad, 1967.Scholarly historical biography of the second Mughal emperor, Humayun (1508-1556). The unrevised doctoral thesis of Rama Shanker Avasty, who died shortly after being awarded his doctorate, making this his only major publication, which was chosen as the first in a series of thesis to be published by the University. Foreword by Banarsi Prasad Saksena. This copy from the collection of the controversial Tattersalls heir, Prof. V.J.A. Flynn.
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Fungi of China
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartS. C. Teng; Richard R. Korf
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Iban Shamanism: An Analysis of the Ethnographic Literature
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartPenelope Graham
Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1994.An occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. With a foreword by Derek Freeman.
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An Ingenious Reverie: The Photography of Yip Cheong Fun
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartBridget Tracy Tran; Yip Cheong Fun
Singapore: National Library Board, 2006.Posthumous retrospective monograph on the Singaporean photographer.
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1241/2004
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartYuko Shindo
[Fukuoka]: Shindo Yuko Studio Inc, 2004.Photo book of the 2004 Hakata Gion Yamakasa by local Japanese photographer Shindo Yuko. This copy signed by the photographer.
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Traces: Dark Clouds
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartIan Teh
Great Britain: Deep Sleep Editions, 2011.Photobook of industrial China. This copy inscribed the photographer.
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YellowKorner Portfolio 3: Xabi Etcheverry
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartXabi Etcheverry
: YellowKorner, 2011.Photobook of works by Xabi Etcheverry from his years in Japan.
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Refocus: Dragon 2010-2011
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartWang Chuan
Beijing: Pekin Fine Arts, 2011.“Published on the occasion of Wang Chuan’s second solo exhibition ‘Refocus: Dragon’ at Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, April to May 2011. This exhibition is also part of Caochangdi Photospring 2011. Wang takes a contrarian approach to digital photography by enlarging the pixels and making them obvious to the viewer in order to draw attention to overlooked details of Beijing’s landscape. ‘In Refocus: Dragon, Wang demonstrates a simple enough premise: The dragon is still everywhere in Beijing; its portrait shows up in the oddest and most unexpected places.[…] Wang’s works implicitly question how these dragon legends play out on a contemporary stage. Wang shows us, using his impressionistic pixels, a variety of places where he recently “discovered” dragons still alive and kicking, lodged deeply in the psyche of local people around Beijing.’ (from foreword by Meg Maggio) Includes an essay by Gu Zheng and artist statement by Wang Chuan. Artist biography and list of works provided. Chinese text is printed in a separate booklet attached.” (publisher’s blurb). This copy inscribed by the photographer.
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Romance
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartYao Jui-Chung
Taipei: Garden City Publishing, 2010.Monograph published to accompany the solo exhibition of Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-Chung. One of 500 signed and numbered copies.
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Human Negotiations
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartKatharina Hesse; Lara Day
Beijing: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, 2011.Photo book of Bangkok female and transsexual sex workers. Photography by Katharina Hesse with text based on interviews by Lara Day. This copy signed by Hesse.
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L’Art a Hue Nouvelle Edition
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartl’Association des Amis du Vieux Hue
Hanoi: Imprimerie d’Extreme-Orient, No date.A separately issued volume associated with the Bulletin des Amis du Vieux Hue and a classic of Vietnamese motifs, art, and architecture. The Association des Amis du Vieux Hue was a French colonial-era scholarly society based in Hue, the Bulletin was issued 1914-1944, this special issue circa 1925.
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The Indo-Aryan Languages
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartCollin P. Masica
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. -
Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: 2. Collections in Pakistan
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartSayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah; Asko Parpola
Helsinki: Soumalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991. -
Krishna: The Divine Lover: Myth and Legend through Indian Art
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEnrico Isacco
Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. -
The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin: An Autobiography
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartVerrier Elwin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964. -
Himalayan Anthropology
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartJames F. Fisher
The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1978. -
Catalogue of the Himalayan Literature
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartYoshi Yakushi
Tokyo: Hakusuisha Publishign Co., 1984.The standard bibliography for works on the Himalayas.
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Nepal (2 Volumes)
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPerceval Landon
New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1993. -
Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn T. Hitchcock; Rex L. Jones
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1976. -
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[Bhutan and Tibet]: An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Turner
New Delhi: Manjusri Publishing House, 1971.Containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and part of Tibet by Captain Samuel Turner. Cover title: Bhutan and Tibet. The first facsimile edition after the 1800 London Edition, one of the 900 standard copies from a total edition of 1,000 numbered copies. Bibliotheca Himalayica. Series I, Volume 4.
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La Prima Missione Cattolica Nel Tibet
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartGiuseppe M. Toscano
Parma: Istituto Missioni Estere, 1951.The First Catholic Mission in Tibet.
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Records of Tho.ling: A Literary and Visual Reconstruction of the Mother Monastery in Gu.ge
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRoberto Vitali
Dharamsala: High Asia, 1999. -
Tibetan Pilgrimage
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert B. Ekvall; James F. Downs
Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Language and Cultures of Asia & Africa, 1987.With an appreciation by James F. Downs and Shigeru Iijima.
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The Yar-Lun Dynasty
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartErik Haarh
Kobenhavn: G. E. C. Gad’s Forlag, 1969.A study with particular regard to the contribution by myths and legends to the history of Ancient Tibet and the origin and nature of its kings.
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El arte de los antiguos y de los primitivos: Asia anterior – India – Indochina – Tibet – China – Japon – Los tchuktches
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartW. y B. Forman
Mexico: Editorial Hermes, 1963.The art of the ancients and primitives: Anterior Asia – India – Indochina – Tibet – China – Japan – The Tchutches.
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Lao Textiles: Ancient Symbols – Living Art
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPatricia Cheesman
Bangkok: White Lotus Co., 1988. -
An Analysis of the Decorative Motifs of Some Philippine Cultural Minorities
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartPhilippine College of Arts and Trades Design Center
Manila: Philippine College of Arts and Trades, 1973. -
Motifs of Life in Toba Batak Texts and Textiles
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartS. A. Niessen
Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1985. -
Oiran
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartTetsuji Takechi
Tokyo: Tokyo Academy of Arts, 1983.First edition photobook issued to accompany Takechi Tetsuji’s controversial late-career film Oiran, “A mixture of romance and sex combined with surrealistic horror elements.” The story is loosely based on the work of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki in which a 19th century Japanese prostitute moves to America and her dead lover manifests as a mole on her leg. Takechi was a prominent critic and kabuki director before moving into directing films in the 1960s. His 1964 feature Hakujitsumu is regarded as the first big budget pink film (Japanese movies with nudity or sexual content), and also the first Japanese production subjected to systematic fogging censorship. The following year, Black Snow (1965), led to his arrest on indecency charges, a landmark case he ultimately won, significantly reshaping Japanese film censorship and opening the way for the flourishing of the pink eiga genre through the late 1960s and 1970s. After a decade-long hiatus from cinema, Takechi returned with a more explicit remake of Hakujitsumu before directing Oiran in 1983. The film again brought him into conflict with the censors whom “edited and fogged in 98 different places, altering the film from a near-hardcore opus to a very soft costume drama.” Takechi promoted the film by proclaiming it featured “the first multicoloured penis in Japanese cinema.” The present photobook, issued uncensored, retains many of the film’s erotic stills and remains an important visual record of Takechi’s work. As usual for the period, explicit male nudity is absent. References: WEISSER: The Sex Films: Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia.
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Kagawa San: The Christian Prophet of Japan
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartMaurice Whitlow
London: The Religious Tract Society, No date.Short biography on the Japanese Evangelical and labour activist, Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960). Part of the The Little Library of Biography, c. 1930s.
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Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartD. T. Suzuki
New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2007.One of the most important texts of Mahayana Buddhism, in which almost all its principal tenets are presented, including the teaching of Zen.
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Edige: A Karakalpak Oral Epic as performed by Jumabay Bazarov
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartKarl Reichl
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2007.Edige is one of the most esteemed oral epics of the Karakalpaks, a Turkic-speaking people, who live on the mouth of the Amu Darya and the shores of the Aral Sea. Edige is a historical personage from the time of Timur at the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. The singer, Jumabay Bazarov, was the last Karakalpak singer of heroic epics who stood in an entirely oral tradition. In this edition and translation an attempt has been made to capture as much of his oral performance as possible, including the singer’s dialect features and his musical style. FF Communications No. 289 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Holy Mountain: Studies on Upper Altay Oral Poetry
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartLauri Harvilahti; Zoja S. Kazagaceva
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2003.The aim of this study is to achieve a synthesis in forming a new overall view of the stylistic-poetic and structural devices used to produce the archaic mythical and epic cultural tradition of the Upper Altay region. Attention is also being paid to the inherent ethnic nature of the Altaian ethnic groups, to cultural influences and to some extent their present cultural identity. FF Communications No. 282 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales in Oral Tradition
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartStuart Blackburn
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2001.Is fantasy the defining element in fairy tales? This question is the starting point for Stuart Blackburn’s study of Tamil oral tales. Having collected over 300 tales, 100 of which are translated in this book, he concludes that although fantasy, and humour, are present, at the core of the tales lies a moral vision in which wrongdoing, especially physical cruelty, is punished. Only the second full-length study of Indian tales from oral tradition, this book places the Tamil tradition in an international context, describes the telling sessions and includes tellers’ interpretations of some tales. FF Communications No. 278 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Types of Indic Oral Tales: India, Pakistan, and Ceylon
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartStith Thompson; Warren E. Roberts
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.Catalogue and analysis of Indic oral tales from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, organised by tale-type and thematic motifs. FF Communications No. 180 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Indian Animal Tales: A Preliminary Survey
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartLaurits Bodker
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1991.Survey of Indian animal fables, tracing narrative structures, moral lessons, and cross-cultural folklore parallels. FF Communications No. 170 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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The Cinderella Cycle in China and Indo-China
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartNai-Tung Ting
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1974.Comparative folklore study of Cinderella-type tales across China and Indo-China, highlighting regional variants, motifs, and diffusion of the cycle. FF Communications No. 213 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Games of the Tibetans
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartSiegbert Hummel; Paul G. Brewster
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1963.Ethnographic survey of traditional Tibetan games, combining cultural anthropology, folklore, and comparative play studies. FF Communications No. 187 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Les Civilises
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere; Henri Le Riche
Paris: Librairie de la Collection des Dix, 1926.French colonizers indulge in fornication, opium, and general debauchery in late 19th century Saigon (then French Cochincina, modern day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). One of 200 numbered copies of Arches vellum (of a total edition of 300), bound with the original wrappers.
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Painting the Worlds of Studio Ghibli
AU$215 Read MoreAdd to cartStudio Ghibli; Yoji Takeshige
Tokyo: Pie International, 2025.“Featuring more than 800 pieces of background art, this beautiful hardcover is a complete and enduring publication allowing readers to thoroughly enjoy backgrounds from each and every scene of the Ghibli masterpieces. Including art from each of Studio Ghibli’s twenty-seven films, these pages offer a glimpse into techniques that bring depth and life to these cherished cinematic worlds, revealing a mastery of brushwork, colour and perspective. Editorial supervision by Yoji Takeshige. This is a must-have book for fans of Ghibli films and creators involved in the animation industry. Editorial Supervisor: Yoji Takeshige, background artist and art director for many Ghibli films.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJanet Gyatso
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.A Translation and Study of Jigme Lingpa’s Dancing Moon in the Water and Dakki’s Grand Secret-Talk.
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Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopaedia
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartMade Wijaya
[Sanur]: Fotokopi, 1988.This book grew out of a report by students of the University of Sydney during a holiday design programme in Bali to which Wijaya was the tutor. “Most of the photographers were taken over the six months April – October, 1984. The selection is comprehensive in that it covers the full spectrum of Balinese Architecture — mountain to coastal, north to south, palatial to makeshift..” (from preface) Made Wijaya (born in Sydney as Michael White, 1953-2016) was a landscape architect who left Sydney for Bali as a break from architectural studies at University of Sydney and stayed, immersing himself in the Balinese culture, consorting with royalty, and in 1975 was renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a Hindu temple ceremony. The New Compiled Edition, combining volumes 1 and 2. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 14 original colour photographs pasted in (copies are known to have differing numbers of added photographs). One of 50 numbered and signed copies, this copy further inscribed by Wijaya to the title page, and with numerous manuscript corrections as well as additional information tabs further describing many of the illustrations.
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Indian Paintings in the Sarabhai Foundation
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartB. N. Goswamy
Ahmedabad: Sarabhai Foundation, 2010.Catalogue of paintings in the collection, each with an extended text description.
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Landscape, 2007 – 2014
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartPiyatat Hemmatat
[Chicago]: Serindia Contemporary, 2015.“LANDSCAPE 2007-2014 by Piyatat Hemmatat is a limited edition (of 500) artist’s book of his Landscape series in which for the last seven years he explored ‘his alternate reality’, the landscape. His exploration of nature has informed many of his published projects and has enabled him to get back in touch with his instincts and derive creative strength from them. LANDSCAPE is a collection of his most illuminating encounters that translated into a stunning selection of thirty landscape photographs in this beautifully-produced artist’s edition volume.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Manners and Customs in Manchoukuo
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartMasatoshi Kobayashi; Noboru Hidaka
Manchoukuo: The Manchuria Daily News, 1942.A detailed and thoroughly illustrated guide in English to life and culture in Manchuria. Published at the height of WWII, depicting a completely normal world inside the Japanese puppet state with chapters on races and tribes, costumes, residential houses, food and drink, salutation and etiquette, tastes and pastimes, annual festivals, religions, symbols of religious faith, and happy and unhappy affairs.
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[Manshu Showa Jugonen: Kuwabara Kineo shashin shu]
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKineo Kuwabara
Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1974.Photobook by Japanese photographer Kineo Kuwabara (1913-2007) documenting his trip to Manchuria in 1940.
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The Message of the Buddha
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartK. N. Jayatilleke
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975.A posthumous work edited by Ninian Smart.
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Tokyo GlamRock: The Work of Matsukage and Ujino
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Horrocks
: iMMprint, 2002.The art, music and design of the Japanese duo Matsukage and Muneteru Ujino.
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Chiang Kai-shek
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHollington K. Tong
Taipei: China Publishing Company, 1953.The revised edition of Tong’s biography of the Chinese leader. Tong was a journalist and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of China to Japan when this edition was published later as the Ambassador to the United States. This revised edition, published 16 years after the first edition, condenses the story of Chiang Kai-shek’s life pre-1936, which was covered at length in the two volume first edition, and focuses on the epic years which followed, 1937-1953. This copy inscribed by Tong in Tokyo, 1953, to the polyglot Boris Strjeshevsky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army that fled to China where he learned English and Chinese and taught Russian to the Chinese, before moving to Japan in 1939 where he learned Japanese and taught languages, before finally moving to Queensland, Australia, where he taught Russian at the University of Queensland.
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The Dimensions of Values: A Unified Theory
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartRadhakamal Mukerjee
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964.Later economic sociology work of Indian social scientist Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968).
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Pagan Innocence
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartK. F. Wong
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.Photobook of Sarawak’s indigenous peoples, the Dayak, taken in the late 1950s and published in London in 1960. 30 pages of text with an introduction by Malcolm MacDonald.
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Glamours 106
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKishin Shinoyama
Tokyo: Shueisha, 1973.106 Japanese celebrities captured in a large format photo book. This copy inscribed by Kishin.
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Liao Pottery and Porcelain
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartLu Jing Zhu
Shenyang Shi: [ Liaoning hua bao chu ban she], 2003. -
Early Chinese Glass
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartSimon Kwan
Hong Kong: Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. -
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Gansu Caitao [Pottery in Gansu]
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartZhao Guangtian
: Chongqing Shi, 2003.Large format colour reference on pottery of the north-central China provence of Gansu.
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The Invincible Krises 2
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartVanna Ghiringhelli
Vercelli: Saviolo Publisher, 2007. -
A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartArchibald E. Glover
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.A Personal Record of God’s Delivering Power from the Hands of the Imperial Boxes of Shan-si. An account of fleeing China during the Boxer Rebellion by a missionary of the China Inland Mission. The second, or Popular Edition.
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A Suicidology of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge: The Bridge – Nanjing – Under the Heaven
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartQiu Zhijie
Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute, 2008.A series of artworks based around the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, listed as the location of the world’s highest number of suicides by jumping.
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Momoyama Tea Utensils: A New View
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartCuratorial Division, Nezu Museum
Tokyo: Nezu Museum, 2018.Catalogue for an exhibition of ceramics from the Momoyama period, and the start of the Edo period.
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Hyakunin Joro Shinasadame [One Hundred Women Classified According to Their Rank]
AU$600 Read MoreAdd to cartNishikawa Sukenobu
Kyoto: Unsodo, No date.One of the masterpieces of Ukiyoe art. Depicts women from various social classes of the Edo period, from court and samurai ladies to geisha and sex workers, and the many town and country women in between. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1723 and here reprinted together in 1 volume circa late 19th/early 20th century.
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Binding Culture into Thread: Textile Arts of Biboki, West Timor
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartFiona Leibrick
Darwin: Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory / The Centre for Southeast Asia Studies, Northern Territory University, 1994. -
Alchemy Journal (Volume 11, Number 1) Alchemies of Asia
AU$55 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Hardacre
Brisbane and Chiang Mai: Salamander and Sons for the International Alchemy Guild, 2010.An eclectic presentation of textual and art pieces coalescing around the ancient art of transformation.
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Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartJoshua S. Mostow; Norman Bryson: Maribeth Graybill
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003. -
Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartBurton Watson
New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.Translations from the Oriental Classics series.
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Ninja: Men of Iga
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartKano Shinichi
Thousand Oaks: Dragon Books, 1989. -
The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu: Kemmu Shikimoku (1336) & Muromachi Bakufu Tsuikaho
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartKanamoto Nobuhisa; Kenneth A. Grossberg
Tokyo: Monument Nipponica, Sophia University, 1981.On the history of constitutional law in Japan, specifically the Muromachi period, once described by historian Sir George Sansom as being an age of “much law and little justice”.
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Impressions of Mahayana Buddhism
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartBeatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki; Daisetz Teitaro Suzuk
Kyoto and London: The Eastern Buddhist Society and Luzac and Company, 1940.Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an American Theosophist and Buddhist scholar. In 1911 she married Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (D. T. Suzuki), the well known philosopher and Buddhist Scholar who popularized Zen in the west. She wrote extensively on Buddhism and Japanese culture, and following her death her husband compiled this book from her articles in various magazines in Japan, India, England and America.
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Touring Programme for the Australian Delegation to the 4th Asian Baptist Youth Conference, Thailand 1971-72
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartW. L. Hellier
[Canberra]: [Australian Baptist Youth Fellowship], [1971].Roneoed programme for a trip to Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand (where the Youth Conference was held), Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines including flights, accommodation, eating arrangements and tours.
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Expo ’70 World Youth Camp, July 10-23: Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartExpo ’70
: EXPO’70 World Youth Camp Organizing Committee; National Council of Youth Organizations in Japan; World Assembly of Youth, 1970.Handbook for Attendees at the World Youth Camp detailing useful information, accommodation, scheduling and tours. Notice in back pocket of the 4th Chief Delegate Meeting. Unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii.
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Dessin
AU$100 Read MoreAdd to cartKazuo Ohno
Kushiro: [Ryokugeisha], 1992.Facsmile of writings and drawings from the notebooks of Japanese dancer Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010), one of the founders of Butoh. A 1992 performance poster laid in
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How to See Kobe
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartTourist Association of Hyogo Ken
Japan: Tourist Association of Hyogo Ken, 1936.History and sight-seeing places of Kobe, along with suggestions of hotels, shopping, eating and transport. August 1936 issue.
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Red Azalea: Life and Love in China
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartAnchee Min
London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. -
Katu Folktales and Society
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartInstitute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation.
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tempete apres tempete
AU$70 Read MoreAdd to cartRebekka Deubner
[Ghent]: Art Paper Editions, 2021.“IÂ’ve been meeting you through a strip of land, called Fukushima-ken emerging of the Pacific ocean. The scenery I am wandering around is made of water and cells — randomly forming pink-whitish seaweed, shiny epidermis, teeming caves, narrow pupils, raven hair. Shamelessly IÂ’m strolling around the offered pieces of the landscape’s body. Hidden behind my telephoto lens, I am gazeating every detail of it, responding to an urge to feel and seize all the shapes emerging from the still fertile breach of a disaster and its offspring. Keiko, Natsumi, Hayato, Hitoshi, Junka, Hisashi and AsamiIf I am lucky, your defense caves in and I’ll get close, collecting scattered pieces of you and soft gestures — a face revolving — a folding hand — lips opening — a winking eyelid — my pictures become the films stills of a slow sequence shot which wasnÂ’t filmed. Suggesting the missing images from the in-between, calling out to us to fill the gaps while the nocturnal fauna of the sea is swarming through the seaweed, feeding itself on the leftovers of the wave(s).” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Rock Photography
AU$165 Read MoreAdd to cartRex R. Kubota; Erica Nakada
Tokyo: Sunday-sha, 1979.Photography of 1970s Japanese rock bands on and off stage. Photographs by Masakazu Sakomizu, George Ide, Takumi Uchida, Kenji Suzuki, and Nobuhiro Sakagami. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC at January 2022.
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Mie Kimono Shiryokan Zuroku
AU$55 Read MoreAdd to cartUeda Mie
Tokyo: Mie Kimono Shiryokan, 1983.Catalogue of kimono designs.
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Hana nareba: Razo / [If It Becomes a Flower: Naked Statue]
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartShoji Otake
Tokyo: Nihon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1985.Portfolio of eight nude photographs by Japanese photographer Shoji Otake (1920-2015).
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Tokyo Innocence
AU$45 Read MoreAdd to cartMika Ninagawa
Kyoto: Mitsumura Suiko Shoin, 2013.Photographic portraiture of colourful Tokyo subcultures.
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Aphrodisiacs: The World of Ayumi Kasai
AU$75 Read MoreAdd to cartAyumi Kasai
Tokyo: PIE International, 2021.“Ayumi Kasai is a pioneer and one of the most popular artists in the genre of yaoi, or “BoysÂ’ Love”. This book contains illustrations from Kasai’s yaoi novels over the past 10 years, as well as her original work in the “Dannahan to Chiwagenka (The Husband & LoverÂ’s Fight)” series and a selection of illustrations specially drawn for the publication. On every page you can enjoy Kasai’s world of aestheticbeauty and eroticism. Contains explicit sexual scenes.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Tokyo Illustrators Society: The 1st Exhibition
AU$55 Read MoreAdd to cartTokyo Illustrators Society
Tokyo: Tokyo Illustrators Society, 1989.Catalogue for the first Tokyo Illustrators Society exhibition. Includes work by 73 Japanese artists including Akira Uno, Hajime Sorayama, Toshio Saeki, and many others, with accompanying short biography and portrait photograph. Includes list of artists with contact details. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC, 1 in CiNii.
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An Exhibition of Kabuki Stage Costumes
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartShochiku; Tetsuya Okazaki
Tokyo: Shochiku, 1998. -
Paris-Tokyo Golden’60 Teijin Fashion Fair
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartTeijin
Tokyo: Teijin, 1960.Program for a 1960s fashion show in Tokyo featuring Parisian models Nicole Crassat, Chrstine Saunier, Laure Nicole, Anne-Marie Bocheux, and Marianne Leroy-Beaulieu. Rare, unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii.
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Ankoku Buto: The Premodern and Postmodern Influence on the Dance of Utter Darkness
AU$25 Read MoreAdd to cartSusan Blakeley Klein
Ithaca: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1988.“A brief introduction to the history, philosophy, and techniques of the Japanese avant-garde dance movement, Ankoku Buto. Evoking images of grotesque beauty, revelling in the seamy underside of human behavior, Buto dance groups such as Sankai Juku and Dai Rakuda-kan have performed to wide critical and popular acclaim, making Buto one of the most influential new forces in the dance world today. The monograph traces the development of Buto from its birth in the bleak post-war landscape of 1950s Japan, and then addresses the question of Buto as a post-modern phenomenon, before going on to examine the influence of traditional Japanese performance on Buto techniques. The last chapter analyzes a specific dance (Niwa – The Garden) by Muteki-sha, to show how these techniques are used concretely. Includes translations of four essays on Buto by contemporary Japanese dance critics.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Keita Maruyama / Maruyama Landscape: The 20th Anniversary Book, 1994-2014
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartKeita Maruyama
Tokyo: Rikuyosha, 2014.Monograph of Japanese fashion designer Keita Maruyama (1965-). Photography by Ellen Von Unwerth and others.
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Nomen / Noh Masks
AU$5,500 Read MoreAdd to cartYasuo Nakamura; Naomi Maki
Kyoto: Shinshindo, 1979.A beautifully presented collection of masks used in the classical Japanese dance-drama Noh. Each plate, photographed by Naomi Maki, is mounted in an individual folder with tissue guard, housed in a portfolio case, and includes an index sheet. An accompanying explanatory volume written by Yasuo Nakamura goes into detail on the subject, as well as containing black and white photographs of the reverse sides of the masks. The portfolio and accompanying volume are housed inside of another cloth clamshell with two bone clasps, which in turn is housed in another box. Yasuo Nakamura (1919-1996) was a Japanese high school teacher, junior college professor, and Noh scholar, producing numerous works on the subject from the 1960s until his death. His scholarship on this collection of masks earned him the Geijutsu Sensho Prize from The Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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Beitrage zur Pathologie und Therapie der Syphilis
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Neisser
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1911.Contributions to the Pathology and Therapy of Syphilis edited by German physician Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855-1916). Neisser was a pioneer in sexually transmitted infections who discovered the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea. He was also a part of leading work on leprosy and syphilis. This book collects research on syphilis in primates which Neisser and a number of colleagues conducted in Java in the early 20th century.
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Ko-Kutani
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartIdemitsu Museum of Arts
Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 2004.A detailed catalogue of Ko-Kutani Japanese porcelain from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts collection. Primarily photographs, most of the text is in Japanese with some captions bearing English translation and an essay in English at the rear.
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Onchi Koshiro hangashu / Prints of Onchi Koshiro
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartOnchi Koshiro
Tokyo: Keishosha, 1975.A comprehensive collection of the printed works of Japanese artist Koshiro Onchi (1891-1955). Contains 424 illustrations, many in colour, a numbered original print, photograph of the artist, and various essays including an essay on Hanga by Onchi. This copy is number 27 in the limited overseas edition of 170 with the original numbered and stamped print. 380 copies were also produced in a domestic edition.
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Kathakali: The Dance-Theatre
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartKalamandalam Govindam Kutty
Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 1999.Foreword by Anil Kumar Sarkar.