Ukiyo-e from Florilegius

Woodblock reprint of two famous Japanese picture scrolls which recorded the unsuccessful Mongol invasions of Japan in the 13th century. The scrolls were originally drawn between 1275 and 1293 for the samurai Suenaga Takezaki to record his battlefield valor and deeds during Kublai Khan's attempted invasions of Japan. The scrolls depict the Battle of Bun'ei in 1274 and the Battle of… Read more about this item

Complete set of Bairei Kono's Soka Hyakushu or Kusabana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada Unsodo, 1901-1904. 231 color woodcut plates bound in 4 volumes, stored in a custom green-cloth slip-case. The woodblock plates printed with natural vegetable dyes for true-to-life colors. Vol. 1: 58 plates, Vol. 2: 58 plates Supplements: Vol. 3: 60 plates, Vol. 4: 55 plates. Condition:… Read more about this item

Early 20th-century reprint of Utagawa's famous book on Japanese women's fashions originally published in 1802. Volume 1 only of the 2 volume set. With 25 full-color woodblock prints depicting 12 scenes over double pages with different classes of women, 23 pages of Japanese text. Includes woodcuts of noble courtiers under cherry blossom, samurai wives relaxing, concubines, merchant women, servants at bathhouse, dancers, laundress,… Read more about this item

Reprint from the 1880s of ukiyo-e artist Masanobu Okumura's depiction of nightlife in the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters in the Edo era. Masanobu Okumura (1686-1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, illustrator and painter. This orihon concertina-style book includes 38 double-page illustrations of geisha with their maids and samurai customers, playing board games and cards, smoking tobacco pipes, playing shamisen, reading books,… Read more about this item