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Tokyo Blur
AU$65.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCesar Ordonez
: The Folio Club, 2014.Photo book of Tokyo nightlife by the Spanish photographer. “I’m in Tokyo. It’s dark and raining. Everything blurs around me. The faces, lights, the times I’ve gone through. I feel myself fading away, losing control. I’m not worried, far from it: a sense of stillness, recognition and renewal flows through me. Beyond the first mists that hampered my sight, everything now comes limpid, crystal clear. I begin to tidy up my lifetime, trying to comprehend why I came here”. (artist’s statement) Edition of 200 unnumbered copies. This copy signed by Ordonez.
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Change
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMikiko Hara; Stephen Dixon
New York: The Gould Collection, 2016.The first volume of The Gould Collection pairing Stephen Dixon’s short story Change with Mikiko Hara’s Tokyo photographs from 1996 to 2009. This copy signed by both Hara and Dixon on a tipped in sheet.
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1241/2004
AU$50.00 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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YellowKorner Portfolio 3: Xabi Etcheverry
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartXabi Etcheverry
: YellowKorner, 2011.Photobook of works by Xabi Etcheverry from his years in Japan.
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Ametsuchi
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRinko Kawauchi
New York: Aperture, 2013.“Inspired by two Japanese characters meaning heaven and earth and taken from the title of one of the oldest pangrams in Japanese–a chant in which each character of the Japanese syllabary is used. In Ametsuchi, Kawauchi brings together images of distant constellations and tiny figures lost within landscapes, as well as photographs of a traditional style of controlled-burn farming (yakihata) in which the cycles of cultivation and recovery span decades and generations. Punctuating the series are images of Buddhist rituals and other religious ceremonies–a suggestion of other means by which humankind has traditionally attempted to transcend time and memory.” (from Aperture website) This copy signed by the photographer.
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Bosozuku
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasayuki Yoshinaga
London: Trolley, 2002.Photo book of Japanese biker gangs.
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Comic Genius: Kawanabe Kyosai
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartShigeru Oikawa
Tokyo: The Tokyo Shinbun, 1996.Exhibition catalogue.
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The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJack Hillier
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1980. -
The Japanese Courtyard Garden: Landscapes for Small Spaces
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKanto Shigemori
New York and Tokyo: John Weatherhill, 1981. -
Art Treasures of Japan in Two Volumes
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYashiro Yukio
Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1960. -
Oiran
AU$400.00 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$200.00 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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[Dream Town: Tokyo Photo Collection by Kineo Kuwabara]
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKineo Kuwabara
Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1977.Photobook by Japanese photographer Kineo Kuwabara (1913-2007) documenting Tokyo from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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Early Japanese Sword Guards: Sukashi Tsuba
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMasayuki Sasano
Tokyo and San Francisco: Japan Publications, 1972. -
The Exhibition of the Atomic Bombing in Nagasaki
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Hart
Nagasaki: Nagasaki International House, 1973. -
Japanese Military Sake Cups, 1894-1945
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDan King
Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 2004. -
Momoyama Tea Utensils: A New View
AU$100.00 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$600.00 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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Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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South Manchuria Railway 1935
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSouth Manchuria Railway Company
Dairen: South Manchuria Railway Company, 1935.Traces the history, development, and administration of The South Manchuria Railway Company as it expanded its enterprises to influence almost all areas of economic, political and social life in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. This copy with the company’s New York office stamp to the title page and with the 1936 Statistical Abstract laid in.