Japanese Prints

Henry Sotheran Limited 65
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first edition. A highly detailed, and diverse, account of the author’s
travels across the far East planted in a fictional context, but firmly
rooted in fact. The work includes a 16-page account of a whaling
voyage, along with descriptions of many major cities, famous
natural and man-made features such as Mount fuji and the Great
Wall, and observations on all aspects of local life including religion,
traditions, amusements, clothing, childish pastimes, rural life, the
role of women, modes of torture, manufacture, tea-drinking and
kite-flying, to name but a few.
289. [LEACH, Bernard]. Yanagi SOETSU. (editor).
Kogei. no. 53. May 1935. Tokyo, Nippon Mingei Kyokwai, May,
1935. £425
8vo. (224 x 152 mm.). Original plaid cloth covered wrappers; [iv]
+ 41 + [1] + [68]pp. + 10 leaves, each with a photo plate mounted
at large, of which 5 are coloured + [4]pp.; text in English and
Japanese; a particularly fine copy of a scarce title.
Edited by Yanagi Soetsu the founder of the Mingei (folk craft)
Movement in the 1920s, this issue of Kogei contains three essays
by his life-long collaborator, Bernard Leach, just prior to his return
to England after fourteen years living and working in Japan.
The concern of Soetsu was to draw attention to the high quality and
beauty of artisan crafts, including pottery, being subsumed by
growing urbanisation and mass-production.
290. MILLER, Dorothy C. and William S.
LIEBERMANN. The new Japanese painting and Sculpture.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1966. £45
Square 4to. Original red cloth, the title stamed in white to the upper
board and spine, photographic dustjacket; 116pp., illustrated
throughout with b/w photo plates; a particularly fine copy in a fine
dust jacket.
first edition.
291. ONAKA, Koji. Slow Boat. Cologne, Schaden, 2008.£55
Small 4to (233 x 265 mm). White paper covered boards, photoillustrated
dust jacket; 84 b/w photographs.
first German edition. Initially published in Japan in 2003.
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