青幻舎
2024
Seigensha Art Publishing

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Seigensha Art PublishingInc., is an independent publishing house specializing in art
and illustrated books.

The company name, “Seigensha,” is made up of three kanji

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Founded in 1995 in Kyoto, Japan, Seigensha Art Publishing,

characters:
Ukiyo-e(sei = blue), for the purity of the clear blue sky/oceans(gen = visions), symbolizing the pursuit of dreams yet to come(sha = hut, also often used for “school”), for the spirit of learning
DesignSeigensha has published over 900 titles in the fields ofcontemporary & traditional art, design, photography, fashion& textiles, popular culture, children’s books, and more,
including literature and literary criticism in recent years. The
company is committed to high-quality publishing and is proud
to work with such first-class artists as Eikoh Hosoe, Naoya
Masafumi Sanai, Issei Suda, Nobuyoshi Araki, Makoto Azuma,
Shinro Ohtake, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Akira Yamaguchi, Katsura
Funakoshi, Izumi Kato, Saul Leiter, and Gerhard Richter.

Book prices are in Japanese yen and exclude tax. Prices may vary by country.

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Hatakeyama, Rinko Kawauchi, Taiji Matsue, Tomoko Sawada,

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Beyond the Lines
Daisuke Tajima

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From lines to cities that never were:an artist’s first collection.

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Shaped by lines that drive ever outward, the imagined cityscapes
Designin Daisuke Tajima’s pen-and-ink canvases spring from two sources:
the American sci-fi movies and Japanese anime he saw as a child,and his time in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China. Dive
into his hyperreal world, which at once reflects his interiority andoffers something of a restful alternative to the messiness of reality.

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364 × 296 × 10 mm 94 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥5,000ISBN 978 4 86152 902 33

Objects of love, hate, shamanism,
utility: the millennium-long history ofthe deep and complex ties between
dolls and the Japanese.

Love Hotels
In the 2000s, editor and photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki
embarked on a mission to capture the beauty of a rapidly

256 × 182 × 16 mm 168 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,700ISBN 978 4 86152 914 6

fading icon of Japanese sexuality: the so-called “lovehotels” offering guests spaces for intimate encounters. In
this collection, Tsuzuki chooses seventy-three love hotel
rooms to profile for their retro decor in all its erotic glory
and quirkiness.

The Infinite World of Japanese Dolls
From Religious Icons to Works of Art
The Shoto Museum of Art

From ancient curse dolls to today’s character figures, dolls haveMuseums of Erotica

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148 × 105 × 24 mm 448 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,300ISBN 978 4 86152 925 2

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Kyoichi Tsuzuki

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Explore a fascinating—and largely forgotten—
Japanese cultural heritage.

had a long and varied history in Japan, but perhaps because
they are so eclectic, they have until now been poorly studied.

Kyoichi Tsuzuki

Bringing together dolls of all genres with insights from experts,
this volume examines the borderless appeal of Japanese humanJapan’s museums of erotica began springing up in

figurines across the realms of art, folk tradition, sculpture, toys,and more.

unprecedented domestic travel boom. Seen through theeye of Kyoichi Tsuzuki, the eclectic kitsch of the exhibits

Designtourist towns across the country in the 1970s amid an

at these adult amusement centers is as novel today as it
was decades ago. At the same time, the spaces teem with
the nostalgia of a bygone era, exuding an almost artistic
ambience.

Tw o - v o l u m e b o x e d s e t¥4,600ISBN 978 4 86152 930 6

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148 × 105 × 24 mm 448 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,300ISBN 978 4 86152 924 55Highlights

Art born of a flamboyant life unfetteredby social norms: the first posthumous
retrospective collection of Goda Sawako.

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Ukiyo-eGoda Sawako: A Retrospective
No Path and No Plan to Return
The Museum of Art, Kochi,
and the Mitaka City Gallery of Art

Designcelebrated as a living incarnation of Japan’s underground art scene,
she later cast off her decadent style to cultivate a luminous, more
introspective world. This first-ever posthumous retrospective collection
covers every phase of an unfettered career that spanned the genres ofobjets d’art, painting, and photography.

219 × 149 × 20 mm 280 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,700ISBN 978 4 86152 906 1

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Goda Sawako (1940–2016) was never afraid to reinvent herself: once

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Women between Hopes and Fears

Masako Ando

Masterpieces Discovered by the Hoshino Gallery
Shiro Uezono

Yukukawa, or “flowing river,” is a classical allusion

Here are 121 paintings of girls and young womena pottery town and the birth of a child have takenfrom the Hoshino Gallery, a Kyoto dealer dedicatedworks show, her concern with depicting the here
and now of familiar things remains unchanged.

172 × 260 × 9 mm 128 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥3,500ISBN 978 4 86152 912 2

to rediscovering lesser-known artists from Japan’s
modern era. These women who—as we can clearlysee—strove to live life to the fullest amid rapidlychanging times remain captivating to this day.

260 × 190 × 15 mm 200 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,900ISBN 978 4 86152 919 1

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to the passage of time. In recent years, a move to
Masako Ando’s art in new directions. But as theseHighlights

Yukukawa

Ukiyo-ePortraits of the Seasons:
The World of Ono Chikkyo

Odyssey
Akiko Endoshe became a painter, not a single day has gone by

Shiro Uezono

when she has not held a brush. Follow her artistic
odyssey in this collection of some eighty paintings,
including the Paradise and Street series and giantworks measuring more than two by three meters.

222 × 298 × 15 mm 172 pp
softcoverJapanese¥4,500ISBN 978 4 86152 771 5

DesignMasterpieces from the Chikkyo
Art Museum, Kasaoka

Akiko Endo says that in the fifty-odd years since

Japanese-style painter Ono Chikkyo (1889–1979)
was renowned for his lyrical portrayals of Japaneselandscapes. This collection presents some 150 works
selected through the cooperation of the Chikkyo
Art Museum, Kasaoka, alongside commentaries and257 × 190 × 17 mm 224 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,900ISBN 978 4 86152 915 3

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essays that shed light on Chikkyo's career and allure.

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Yu Yamauchi

For nine years Yu Yamauchi traveled time and again
to the island of Yakushima, staying alone in its
with his internal self here in these photographs,
which speak powerfully to the interconnections
between humans, nature (jinen), and the world.

323 × 250 × 20 mm 144 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥8,000ISBN 978 4 86152 916 0

Ukiyo-eforests for weeks at a time. The great trees resonate

Quietly breaking the silence: a new collection
from photographer Jin Ohashi, a decade after
the shock and controversy of Surrendered
Myself to the Chair of Life.

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Jinen

A Series of Firsts
Jin Ohashi

DesignPlanetNew Edition
Life is always lived for the first time; life is, indeed,Yu Yamauchi

253 × 283 × 20 mm 240 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥10,909
ISBN 978 4 86152 911 5

all about encountering “firsts” over and overagain. In this collection, his mother’s death andphotograph nomads, but found a panoply of other

other “firsts” lead Jin Ohashi to probe what it

scenes to document: otherworldly mines, glitteringmodern cities, futuristic-looking deserts that seem
somehow familiar. This collection of photographs
takes readers on a multidimensional journey.

227 × 286 × 17 mm 134 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥7,000ISBN 978 4 86152 928 3means to live as flesh, as a human being. Here arephotographs captured in the same raw, inimitablestyle that prompted Nobuyoshi Araki to call

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Yu Yamauchi originally traveled to Mongolia to

Ohashi’s debut series “gut-wrenching.”
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Mikiya Takimoto Works
1998–2023

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Mikiya Takimoto is one of the foremost advertising
photographer/cinematographers working in Japan
today. This collection of the commissioned projects
he has undertaken in the first twenty-five years of
his career reveals the world-acclaimed state-of-theart in Japanese advertising.

246 × 194 × 50 mm 600 pp (TBC)
hardcoverJapanese¥9,000 (TBC)
ISBN 978 4 86152 927 6

227 × 303 × 21 mm 160 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥6,000ISBN 978 4 86152 896 5

Watanabe Koichi

Ukiyo-eContrayerba in Dreaming

The Kingdom of Green
Yasutomo Ebisu and Rumiko Suzuki

Photographer Yasutomo Ebisu and editor/

Contrayerba: a fascination with this mysterious
name—Spanish for “antitoxic herb”—in Western
medical texts brought into nineteenth-century
Japan led Watanabe Koichi on a quest acrossEnglish gardens to see how the green-fingered

time and continents for the plants it denoted.

talents and philosophies of gardeners past andThat quest, documented here, offers much foodpresent have gone into shaping havens thatfor thought about the exploitation of plants over

ever evolve and change, and yet retain their

history and about what it truly means for humans

timelessness.

to coexist with nature.

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writer Rumiko Suzuki visit more than a dozen

285 × 220 × 16 mm 144 pp
hardcoverJapanese¥5,400ISBN 978 4 86152 926 9

DesignA photo collection that tells the story of themysterious medicinal plants that led humans, andtheir hopes and dreams, to crisscross the globe.

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100 Years of Samiro Yunoki
Trajectory of Creation

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Ukiyo-eHundred years old and still going strong:a celebration of the career of dyer, artist,and educator Samiro Yunoki.

DesignDyer, craft and visual artist, educator, designer,
creative: all these descriptions fit Samiro Yunoki,
this commemorative exhibition catalogue, some
150 works including textiles, glass paintings, bookcovers, and collaborative projects illustrate thesignature themes of Yunoki’s oeuvre and look backat a colorful century of life and art.

210 × 150 × 11 mm 224 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,500ISBN 978 4 86152 901 6

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who turned one hundred years old in 2022. In

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Parallel Lives

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto;
the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Okayama
Prefectural Museum of Art; and Musée Tomo

Susumu Shingu and Renzo Piano

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The Sodeisha GroupA parallel interest in air, wind, light, and lightness
has inspired architect Renzo Piano and Susumu
natural forces, to collaborate multiple times overthirty-five years. This book covers all ten of theirjoint projects, plus individual works.

Formed in 1948, the Sodeisha group of avant-garde ceramicartists liberated ceramic ware from its role as “vessel” to give
the world the “ceramic objet.” This companion volume to an
exhibition covering the group’s first quarter century features
some 180 works and more than 200 related sources.

The Ataka Collection 101
Masterpiece Selection

218 × 148 × 23 mm 288 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,500ISBN 978 4 86152 910 8

185 × 242 × 20 mm 272 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,500ISBN 978 4 86152 904 7

Asian ceramics in danger of dispersal in the 1970s. Here are

The Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB) is one of the world’s largest

101 selections from this one-of-a-kind collection along withcompetitive exhibitions of picture-book illustrations. This book on a BIB

the insider story of how it was able to find a new home at

exhibition in Japan brings BIB award-winners from 2021 together with

the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.

coverage of the vibrant picture-book scene in Japan and South Korea.

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The bankruptcy of its owner put the Ataka Collection of

Biennial of Illustrations
Bratislava in Japan 2022–23

DesignThe Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka,
and Sen-Oku Hakukokan Museum

257 × 174 × 16 mm 232 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥3,200ISBN 978 4 86152 913 9

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256 × 182 × 30 mm 424 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥3,500ISBN 978 4 86152 922 1

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Shingu, a creator of kinetic works powered by17

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Picture Books of
Kawanabe Kyosai
Kenji Hinohara and the Ota Memorial Museum of Art

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Ukiyo-eFrolicking skeletons, frogs, and yokai on parade:a festive treasury of a little-known part ofKyosai’s oeuvre.

Design148 × 105 × 18 mm 288 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,600ISBN 978 4 86152 903 0

Painter and printmaker Kawanabe Kyosai (1831–
1889) worked in the years of transition between
his popularity, the woodblock-printed treasuries ofdrawings he published late in life are still largely
unknown. From cats to yokai monsters, here are
224 vibrant images from those volumes, organized

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the old shogunate and the modern age. Despite

by category and enriched by informative captions.
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Ukiyo-eDesignThe Pen
New Edition

Manabu Ikeda

Wielding a superfine pen, Manabu Ikeda renders worksof such minute detail that he can finish only a fistcollection puts two decades’ worth of such prodigious

300 × 300 × 20 mm 204 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥5,500 (TBC)
ISBN 978 4 86152 937 5effort on full view. Featured are 100 works chosen by
Ikeda and a breakdown of the details of Rebirth (above),his shining paean of hope and prayer in the aftermath

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sized patch in a day. This updated edition of a 2017of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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Ukiyo-e

Yoshitomo Nara:
Self-Selected Works
Paintings / Works on Paper

Cats slipping in, everywhere you
look: a collection of illustrations
filled with fantasy and felines.

Machida Naoko

DesignCats at Every Turn

As one of Japan’s leading contemporary artists,
Yoshitomo Nara has garnered critical acclaim andThis definitive two-volume compilation of Nara’s work
was published to commemorate his thirtieth year ofactivity and contains compositions carefully chosen by
the artist himself, including pieces never before shownin Japan and recent works.

288 × 240 × 20 mm 160 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥3,800
Paintings: ISBN 978 4 86152 490 5
Works on Paper: ISBN 978 4 86152 489 9

Take a close look at these illustrations—even the ones based
143 × 210 × 15 mm 168 pp
codex
Japanese¥2,500ISBN 978 4 86152 897 2

on stories that don’t involve cats—and you’ll see Machida hasslipped one or two of them in there somewhere. This treasury
of works by a cat-loving illustrator includes a brand-new eight-

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international popularity for his paintings of children.

page picture story about her own cat.
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Blue
Atsushi Suwa

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300 × 230 × 20 mm 176 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥4,500ISBN 978 4 86152 646 6

Suwa’s exhaustive brushwork brings out every detail of his
beneath the surface of the body. This collection features
his signature nudes along with the iconic Tofu and The
Abandoned People, as well as the artist’s own commentary.

Giving hope and comfort through flowers:a return to the original spirit of ikebana.

Ukiyo-esubjects, from a single strand of hair to the very spirit pulsing

Raoul Dufy
Paintings and Textile Designs
DesignPanasonic Shiodome Museum of Art
and Matsumoto City Museum of Art

Encyclopedia of Flowers V
Flower compositions by Azuma Makoto
Photography by Shiinoki Shunsuke
257 × 170 × 18 mm 224 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,273
ISBN 978 4 86152 755 5

Produced amid the Covid-19 pandemic, thisnewest volume in the Encyclopedia of Flowers
Kyoto monks who offered flowers and food to

From 1912 to 1928, the artist Raoul Dufy (1877–1953)
contributed fabric designs to the Lyon-based silk maker
Bianchini-Férier. The some 150 works in this collection
include paintings, design drawings, original textiles, anddresses made from reproductions of his fabrics.

300 × 280 × 21 mm 288 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥4,500ISBN 978 4 86152 877 4

people during a famine. The works are presented
in a format updated from previous volumes, withlarger pages and almost complete lay-flat binding

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series takes inspiration from an episode aboutallowing full appreciation of the dynamic photos.
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Nobuyoshi Araki:
A Life in Photography

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261 × 187 × 22 mm 232 pp
hardcoverJapanese¥3,500ISBN 978 4 86152 785 2

His wife, his cat, flowers, the city of Tokyo, people
going about their everyday lives: the body of workthat Nobuyoshi Araki has produced since the1960s is astoundingly vast and varied. Here, theon his sixty-year career in a book that includes aforty-eight-page gallery of brand-new works and aphoto-illustrated chronology.

Best Before
Yoshiyuki Okuyama

This collection focuses on the commissioned works that the

Ukiyo-einternationally acclaimed photographer looks backVibrant works with no expiration date.

photographer and filmmaker Yoshiyuki Okuyama has undertakenover twelve years, including collaborations with music artists,

To Be Bewitched by a Fox
Tomoko Sawada

promotional images, magazine projects, and portraits of celebrity
icons. The kaleidoscopic images, produced using sometimes
unconventional techniques, shine with the energy and intensity
Designthat are Okuyama’s hallmark.

153 × 110 × 22 mm 272 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥2,600ISBN 978 4 86152 836 1This official catalogue and companion volume to
To Be Bewitched by a Fox, Tomoko Sawada’s firstmajor solo show at a public art institution, presents
self-portraits that delve into the links between

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265 × 203 × 40 mm 512 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥8,000ISBN 978 4 86152 881 1

appearance and internality.
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Yoshiyuki Okuyama

In the summer of 2017, an iconic ad campaign
for Pocari Sweat sports drinks featured 300 highschoolers dancing in joyous unison. The 123 photos
perfectly capture the exuberant vitality of youth.

Ga Ga

Tomoki Qwajima and Yumi Adachi

Tomoki Qwajima has been photographing his wife,
actress Yumi Adachi, daily since their marriage in2014. The 135 images chosen here from that archive
show the two going about their lives on either sideof the lens—manifestations of pure communication

Ukiyo-ein this book, taken during rehearsals and filming,

147 × 221 × 20 mm 128 pp
hardcoverJapanese¥2,300ISBN 978 4 86152 683 1

217 × 157 × 18 mm 168 pp
hardcoverJapanese¥2,500ISBN 978 4 86152 756 2

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Pocari Sweat

carried out with the camera as the conduit.

DesignSchoolgirl Complex: A to Z

255 × 195 × 10 mm 33 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥1,800ISBN 978 4 86152 825 5

Yuki Aoyama

on the symbolism—and traces of individuality—
behind schoolgirls with their identical uniforms.

“Papa” keeps 1,200 pigs on the island of Shikoku. He

172 × 172 × 40 mm 512 pp
hardcoverJapanese¥4,500ISBN 978 4 86152 856 9sparkles amid the mud with its own precious light.
This collection presents photographs, most of thempublished for the first time, from the same series as the

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reflections on his teenage sensibilities as well as

Toshiteru Yamaji

tends his charges with love, and every life on his farm

Witness the fifteen-year evolution of Schoolgirl
Complex, a photo series embodying Aoyama’s

A Life with Pigs

widely acclaimed Pigs and Papa (2010).
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Ukiyo-eBeauty in Boro
Kosaku Nukata Collection

In times when cloth was much more precious,
people in rural Japan thriftily stitched together
scraps of fabric to make everything from garments
boro, have come to be celebrated as works ofart. This book selects 500-plus examples of boro
from the author’s collection. Wrap yourself in acompelling world of beauty shaped by scores of
unknown hands.

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to bedding. These one-of-a-kind articles, called

298 × 212 × 20 mm 272 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥4,200ISBN 978 4 86152 895 8

DesignThe power of textile items
born of need and wrought
by anonymous hands.

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Fashion in Japan
1945–2020
The National Art Center, Tokyo,
and the Iwami Art Museum

in the 1970s to kawaii youth culture, street styles like

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From the emergence of internationally active designers
Gothic Lolita, and more, fashion in Japan has had
a unique trajectory. Here’s a full guide to Japaneseback at the social contexts and trends from the latenineteenth century on that paved the way for today’s
vibrant proliferation.

minä perhonen /minagawa akira:Tsuzuku

DesignFrom fin de siècle Vienna to Kyoto:a primer for getting to know designer
Lizzi Rix-Ueno.

fashion from postwar to present, starting with a look

Ukiyo-e286 × 210 × 25 mm 368 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥3,500ISBN 978 4 86152 781 4

My First Lizzi
The year 2020 marked a quarter century since Akira

the vibrant works of design she produced in Vienna,

Minagawa launched his fashion brand minä perhonen,

where she was born, and Kyoto, where she settled

which employs original textiles developed in close

after marriage. This collection reviews her fantasticalcollaboration with makers throughout Japan. Thisoeuvre, from wall decorations to cloisonné, textiles,
and accessories. Inspiring essays by women who, like
Lizzi, have forged their own paths in art, literature, anddesign lend further insight into her significance.

263 × 177 × 20 mm 274 pp
hardcoverJapanese / English¥3,700ISBN 978 4 86152 764 7

trove features fabrics, apparel, design drawings andillustrations, factory and studio photos, and comments
by Minagawa, all evoking the creative energy generated

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200 × 149 × 15 mm 192 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,200ISBN 978 4 86152 873 6

Felice “Lizzi” Rix-Ueno (1893–1967) was known forby synergy and connection.
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Kuniyoshi-ism
Toshihiko Isao

The brush, the instrument of
the artist’s soul.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) was an outstanding
teacher as well as artist. This volume features a totalof 230 works by Kuniyoshi and twenty-eight of his

From Matabei to Hokusai and Kuniyoshi

and creativity.

students. Dynamic warriors, charming cats, amusing
ghosts, lustrous beauties: all display unparalleled skill

198 × 198 × 20 mm 276 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,500ISBN 978 4 86152 542 1

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The Soul of the Brush:
The Line’s Pull, the Color’s Spell
Sumida Hokusai Museum

Ukiyo-e is usually associated with woodblock prints,
but it actually has its origins in painting. Brought
Designtogether here are some 125 paintings by masters
of ukiyo-e over its 300-year history. Revel in eachartist’s deft lines and magical colors—the soul of thebrushwork lodged within the picture plane.

Hiroshige—Rain, Snow,Night
Unraveling the Appeal of
Woodblock Print Landscapes
Hiroshi Kamiya and Shiori Maeda

Hiroshige (1797–1858) demonstrate his superlative
190 × 215 × 17 mm 232 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,500ISBN 978 4 86152 832 3

aesthetic sense and technical expertise. This bookpresents scenes of rain, snow, moon, night, and mistfrom twenty of his series including his masterpiece,
The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido.

149 × 205 × 20 mm 212 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,000ISBN 978 4 86152 610 7

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The woodblock-printed landscapes of Utagawa

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Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839–1892) pushed the

Yoshitoshi Tsukioka:
Ghost Stories of Ukiyo-e

248 × 182 × 15 mm 176 pp
codex
Japanese¥2,500ISBN 978 4 86152 838 5

Kenji Hinohara and Akira Watanabe

forward for Japanese-style art through his blend of

Yoshitoshi Tsukioka was perhaps best renowned for his

inventiveness and Western realism. The 150 works

255 × 170 × 12 mm 136 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,300ISBN 978 4 86152 627 5in this volume include ghouls and ghosts, portraits
of beauties, and selections from his masterly One
Hundred Views of the Moon.

illustrations of ghost stories from legends, fiction, and plays.
This volume includes every print from the series One Hundred
Ghost Stories of China and Japan and New Forms of Thirty-Six

Ukiyo-eboundaries of ukiyo-e as he pointed a new way

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Yoshitoshi Tsukioka:
The Last Ukiyo-e Artist

Ghosts, both considered his masterpieces.

DesignCross-Dressers in
Ukiyo-eAkira Watanabe

Kenji Hinohara

costume and vice versa have been around for
centuries. Using a variety of ukiyo-e prints, thisbook presents a broad overview of the freewheelingculture and customs of gender-crossing in the Edo
period (1603–1868).

Yoshitoshi Tsukioka created One Hundred Views of the Moon
255 × 170 × 12 mm 136 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,300ISBN 978 4 86152 628 2

toward the end of his life. Inspired by Chinese and Japanesefolklore, poems, and literary works, these vibrant yet plaintive
moon-related prints reveal the versatility of this artist better

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In Japan, traditions of male performers in female

Yoshitoshi Tsukioka: One
Hundred Views of the Moon

255 × 170 × 12 mm 136 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,300ISBN 978 4 86152 653 4

known for his depictions of violence and the supernatural.
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Hokusai Manga

Vol. 1:

Yokai Manga

Vol. 2:Vol. 1:

The Whole Earth Catalogue

Parade of Monstrous Creatures

Vol. 3:Vol. 2:

Fanciful, Mythical and Supernatural

Ukiyo-e

The Life and Manners of the Day

Ukiyoe of Monstrous Creatures

DesignIn 1814, the ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai
published a handbook of sketches titled Hokusaimanga. Fourteen more volumes followed, totaling
more than 4,000 illustrations over 970 pages. The
richly narrative caricatures, satirical drawings, andmultiple-panel “comic strips” in this modern reprint

Three-volume boxed set¥4,500ISBN 978 4 86152 310 6of the best-selling series clearly demonstrate why it
is considered one of the roots of today’s manga.

Vol. 1:148 × 105 × 20 mm 288 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 328 1

Due to their popular appeal and farcical content,Vol. 2:148 × 105 × 20 mm 256 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 329 8

traditions underlying Japanese culture and religion

yokaiga, or pictures of monstrous creatures, havelargely been ignored in Japanese art history. But
their intimate associations with the beliefs and folk
make them significant. This series takes a fresh
look at yokaiga by way of rethinking the place ofCulture / Gifts

148 × 105 × 20 mm 352 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500Vol. 1: ISBN 978 4 86152 280 2
Vol. 2: ISBN 978 4 86152 287 1
Vol. 3: ISBN 978 4 86152 288 8

comicality and humor in Japanese art.
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The Art of
Uemura Shoen

Kenji Hinohara and Akira Watanabe

Hirano Shigemitsu

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Scary Pictures of
Ukiyo-eArt / Photography

Uemura Shoen (1875–1949), a master of bijinga

prints produced in Japan during the Edo period

portraits of beautiful women, was also one of the(1603–1868) included supernatural and deformed
creatures, spirit armies, wrathful demons, sea
monsters, vengeful ghosts, and many other ghastly
sights, all included here in this treasure trove.

297 × 225 × 15 mm 160 pp
softcoverJapanese¥3,800ISBN 978 4 86152 177 5

first female artists in Japan to achieve widespread
renown. This treasury covers major works fromcollections throughout Japan, including Dance
Performed in Noh Play (above).

An Illustrated Encyclopedia ofJapanese Oni Demons

Akira Watanabe

Toru Yagi

148 × 105 × 25 mm 296 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 554 4“Forty-Seven Ronin” fame to rogues, sorcerers,
and other characters of legend. This compilation of
approximately 100 works features a diverse lineup
of ukiyo-e villains.

Learn all about the infamous oni of Japan in this257 × 182 × 14 mm 176 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,200ISBN 978 4 86152 866 8

comprehensive illustrated guide, which provides
easy-to-follow descriptions of thirty-four of thecountry’s most notable oni accompanied by more

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Japanese culture includes a wealth of villains,

DesignVillains in
Ukiyo-efrom historical figures like Kira Kozukenosuke of

Ukiyo-e

148 × 105 × 25 mm 296 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 566 7

The images of fright and horror depicted in ukiyo-ethan 160 historical visual resources.
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Four Seasons’ Flowers

Sakai Hoitsu, Suzuki Kiitsu,
and Nakano Kimei

New Edition
Vol. 1: Spring–Summer
Vol. 2: Autumn–WinterThis Is Sirai Seiichi
The Shoto Museum of Art

Art / Photography

248 × 188 × 22 mm 244 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,700ISBN 978 4 86152 871 2

Architect Shirai Seiichi (1905–1983) majored in design before
studying philosophy abroad. His architecture, as well as his pursuits
varied influences. This comprehensive review of Shirai’s work spanshis beginnings to his final years.

Ukiyo-e

as a critic, book designer, and calligrapher, was shaped by these

DesignDepictions of flora by mastersof the Rinpa School.

Rinpa master Sakai Hoitsu (1761–1829) depicted
flowers and plants in a style characterized by

Japanese Architecture:
Traditional Skills and Natural
Materials

delicate, lyrical brushstrokes. This reprint ofJapan Arts Council

an early-twentieth-century woodblock-printed

The cultural heritage of traditional Japanese architecture istreasury of exquisite paintings by Hoitsu and two

preserved not only in the buildings themselves, but also in precise

other artists presents 528 pictures of flowers inscale models created during repairs. This book uses those models

all four seasons, reproduced in faithful color andto give a historical overview of the artistry and craftsmanship ofreorganized into two compact volumes.

Japanese architectural styles and techniques.

Culture / Gifts

180 × 128 × 20 mm 292 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,300Vol. 1: ISBN 978 4 86152 766 1
Vol. 2: ISBN 978 4 86152 767 8

256 × 185 × 14 mm 152 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,800ISBN 978 4 86152 821 7

43A Dictionary ofColor Combinations
Sanzo Wada
Vol. 2Highlights

A Dictionary ofColor Combinations
Sanzo Wada
Vol. 1

Art / Photography
Ukiyo-eDesignSanzo Wada focused on color all his life. Thisand fashion designer Sanzo Wada (1883–1967)

second volume of his color combinations presents

employed his talents in groundbreaking work

72 color patterns themed on the Japanese seasonsthat centered primarily on visual perception andand another 165 drawn from fashion, interior,form. In a time of increasingly innovative anddiversified use of color, Wada laid the foundation
for contemporary color research, creating the 348
color combinations in this book.

148 × 105 × 15 mm 336 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 772 2

and graphic design in the early to mid-twentiethcentury. With color names in both Japanese andEnglish, it is an indispensable reference for anyone

Culture / Gifts

148 × 105 × 20 mm 352 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 247 5

Artist, art-school instructor, and costume, kimono,

engaged in creative design work.
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Highlights

Showa Modern:Signs and Store Designs,
1920s–30s

Moga
Designs from Platonsha andClub Cosmetics
GPOD with the cooperation ofClub Cosmetics Co., Ltd.

Art / Photography

Window Fronts, Shop Interiors,and Displays from City Streets
In 1920s and 1930s Japan, cities were transformed
as a wave of Westernization and cosmopolitan
culture swept the country. Signs and displays onstreets and in store windows were key elements ofthese new cityscapes. This compilation highlights

In interwar Japan, moga (short for “modern girls”)

the diverse artistry of the designers who worked inbecame a catchword for city women who embraced

era name in the Japanese calendar.

182 × 129 × 16 mm 224 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,200ISBN 978 4 86152 875 0

182 × 129 × 19 mm 256 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,300ISBN 978 4 86152 846 0Westernized fashions. Ads, package designs, andmore from a cosmetics company and its affiliatedpublishing house invite us to look back at images of

Ukiyo-ethis pivotal age, known as Showa Modern after themoga and reflect on their connections to us today.

Russian Chocolate Wrappers
Showa Modern:
Ad Designs, 1920s–30s

DesignAkiko Kogano and Igor Smirennyi

Vintage Paper Treasures, from Posters
and Flyers to Matchbooks and MoreA blossoming cosmopolitan culture pervaded
Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, when new WesternRussian chocolate wrappers aren’t just charming tofilled with posters and other advertising media.

look at; they’re sophisticated expressions of their

To modern viewers, the more than 200 ad designs
in this treasure trove will brim with nostalgia
while also inspiring a new sense of fascination andexcitement.

182 × 129 × 16 mm 224 pp
softcoverJapanese¥2,200ISBN 978 4 86152 874 3

210 × 150 × 12 mm 160 pp
softcoverJapanese / Russian¥2,200ISBN 978 4 86152 878 1

times. This collection of Soviet-era designs primarily
from the 1950s to 1980s is by a Japanese writer anda Russian collector with a shared passion for these

Culture / Gifts

style establishments lined the streets and cities wereenchanting items.
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Highlights

Old-Style Alphabet Lettering ofJapan
Tomoyuki Onuma

part of everyday life in Japan as printed materials,
notices, and signs in Western languages flooded
streets and homes alike. This volume brings
together the best of alphabet typography from1960s Japan.

148 × 105 × 22 mm 276 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 691 6

Ukiyo-eHandwritten Character
Templates

Art / Photography

After World War II, alphabet lettering became

Masahiro Anesaki

In the 1920s, before the advent of phototypesetting,Japanese graphic designers employed handwritten
characters on posters, handbills, and other types ofcommercial art. This collection introduces more than
500 early examples of modern Japanese typography.

Design148 × 105 × 20 mm 256 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,200ISBN 978 4 86152 636 7

A Compilation of Contemporary
Letter Designs
Katsumi Tsuji

Hand-designed lettering uniquely reflects thesuperb collection by Katsumi Tsuji, a graphic
designer active from the early to mid-twentiethcentury, were originally published in 1934.

148 × 105 × 22 mm 336 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 467 7

Culture / Gifts

content or medium of its text. The designs in this49

Highlights

Pattern of Dye
and Weaving

A Guide to Japanese
Katagami Designs

From the late sixteenth century on, a dazzling array of dyeing and

Mizuho Kamo

diversity of traditional Japanese textile design.

Specially made katagami stencils used in dyeing kimono fabric

Kosode Hinagata

The 180 carefully selected samples in this volume have motifs
ranging from seasonal themes, such as apricot blossoms andin this enriched reprint of a 1914 classic showcase the depth andKimono Pattern Samples

Ukiyo-efeature intricate designs that still charm and fascinate us today.

weaving techniques flourished in Japan. The some 250 patterns

148 × 105 × 12 mm 288 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,200ISBN 978 4 86152 060 0

Art / Photography

148 × 105 × 20 mm 336 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 775 3

Iwao Nagasaki

dragonflies, to basic patterns of stripes and arabesques.

In Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868), women from all
backgrounds and social classes wore kimono. To pick fabric, theyof the fashionable patterns of the era.

Designconsulted sample books of patterns. This volume offers a glimpse

148 × 105 × 12 mm 240 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,200ISBN 978 4 86152 189 8

Koimari
148 × 105 × 19 mm 288 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 773 9Modern Kyoto Patterns
Book of Contemporary Designs

An Elegant Porcelain
The Kyushu Ceramic Museum

Seishi Namiki, Aya Ueda, and Mihoko Aoki

Kyoto designers created a rich array of textile patterns. Here,some 240 patterns from the collection of designer Tetsuro Terada

Richly colorful Koimari (“Old Imari”) porcelain, first created 400

provide a beautiful visual record of how textile design changed inyears ago in the Arita region, became popular in Japan during thethe twentieth century.

seventeenth century. This book highlights its distinctive features
and traces the evolution of styles over time.

148 × 105 × 13 mm 256 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,200ISBN 978 4 86152 118 8

Culture / Gifts

After machine printing enabled mass production of designs,

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Posters of Czech, Poland
and Hungary

Made in Japan
Kanako Nakagawa

Denied the freedom to engage in artistic activity, artists in socialist-era
Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary turned to posters and other forms
burst with imagination.
148 × 105 × 18 mm 280 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 594 0

A Collection of Canned Food Labels
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Japan reflected its burgeoning
modernity in its commercial packaging. This collection of approximately
550 labels, primarily from canned goods produced for export, presents a
showcase of sophisticated design.

148 × 105 × 27 mm 352 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 346 5Modern French Posters

Japanese Folk Toys

Yukihiro Hirayoshi

Sketches, words, and photographs recount French artist Philippe

Flamboyant posters enlivened Paris streets in the late nineteenth century,

Weisbecker’s visits to twelve artisans around Japan, each working on alater becoming collectible as art objects. This book introduces some 230

folk toy depicting an animal in the Eastern zodiac. A wonderful way toposters from France—birthplace of the poster as art—including works

experience Japan’s folk craft traditions.

Art / Photographyof graphic design for creative expression. The 223 posters in this book

Japan Canners Association

Highlights

Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum
and Archives Design Collection

Philippe Weisbecker
Ukiyo-eby Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec.

148 × 105 × 18 mm 248 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,000ISBN 978 4 86152 707 4Modern Japanese Posters

A Collection of Specimens

to mid-twentieth century, when visual design flourished in Japan. The

Tour the Kyoto University Museum, a dizzying wonderland of 2.6

images range from depictions of ukiyo-e-like beauties to colorful modern

million scientific specimens of flora, fauna, and more. A highlight isdesigns.

a chapter with text and sketches by contemporary artist Zon Ito that
follows the creation of animal specimens from trapping to taxidermy.

148 × 105 × 18 mm 288 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 656 5

148 × 105 × 17 mm 280 pp
softcoverJapanese¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 724 1

Culture / Gifts

The 229 posters in this collection were created from the late nineteenth

From the Vaults of Kyoto University Museum
Mikako Muramatsu and Zon Ito
New Edition

Seishi Namiki and Tsumiki Wada

Design148 × 105 × 18 mm 280 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 631 2

53Our Unknown Worlds of the 1960s–70s

Kenichi Hatsumi

148 × 105 × 14 mm 288 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,200Vol. 1: ISBN 978 4 86152 181 2
Vol. 2: ISBN 978 4 86152 212 3Children’s Advertising in
the Showa Era

Highlights

Illustrations of the Strange, Mysterious, andBizarre for Kids of the Showa Era

Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
Takanobu Okoshi and Hiroshi Hotoand monsters—the advertisements in Japanesechildren’s magazines between 1965 and 1969
illuminate the interests of youth in that era. This
collection of more than 300 images shows a new

Art / PhotographyVol. 1: Bright colors, simple language, heroes

side of Japanese culture.
Aliens, psychics, King Kong . . . from the 1960s to 1970s,
images of the strange and bizarre by such masters as Shigeru
Komatsuzaki and Gojin Ishihara enthralled children. This bookbrings back that imaginative legacy for readers to enjoy anew.

Futuristic Illustrations for Kids of
the Showa Era

In this visit to an alternate twenty-first century, we find
futuristic imaginings published in magazines for kids between
the 1950s and the 1970s. Images by giants of science fiction

in magazines designed to entertain and educate
young readers. Digital recapturing brings alive thecolors—and excitement—experienced by childrenof the time.

Culture / Gifts

148 × 105 × 13 mm 272 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,200ISBN 978 4 86152 315 1

Kenichi Hatsumi

advertisements published from 1970 to 1974

DesignOur 21st Century

Vol. 2: The second volume in the series features

Ukiyo-e

148 × 105 × 13 mm 268 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,200ISBN 978 4 86152 456 1

illustration show fantastical visions of life in a lost future.
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Highlights

The Gardens of Kyoto:
Karesansui Kenzo Yokoyama and Kokichi Matsuki

Birthday Message from
Flower Emblem

Japan’s unique karesansui dry landscape gardens express natural beauty
using only stones and plantings. Condensing the profundity of thethe art of the Japanese garden at its finest.
220 × 148 × 10 mm 144 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,800ISBN 978 4 86152 135 5

The Perfect Guide to Sumo

Hanakomon are floral emblems inspired by the family crests

Katsuharu Ito; translated by David Shapiro

with a word evoking the qualities and cultural import ofreaders to the ritual-inflected martial art of sumo wrestling. Withof Japan. There’s one for every day of the year, each paired
Ukiyo-e

The author, a professional sumo referee for fifty years, introduces

148 × 105 × 20 mm 416 pp
softcoverJapanese¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 639 8

Art / Photography

world and the vastness of nature into a limited space, they represent

that flower. This book lists all 366 hanakomon along with a
special message for people born on each day.

a translation by NHK’s English-language sumo commentator, thevolume presents sumo in an easy-to-follow format.

Akihiko Toto and Aiko Senda

Design188 × 133 × 15 mm 192 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,800ISBN 978 4 86152 632 9

Kira Karacho Patterned
Stationery Book

132 × 210 × 19 mm 216 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥2,300ISBN 978 4 86152 796 8

Kenbu: A Performing Art Shaped by
Samurai Aesthetics
Magari Auga

In kenbu, a classical Japanese art from the late nineteenth century,
Chinese poetry. This beginner’s guide provides an overview of the art
and offers tips on practice and appreciation.
188 × 133 × 15 mm 182 pp
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,800ISBN 978 4 86152 770 8

The Kyoto establishment Kira Karacho is Japan’s mostvenerable maker of karakami decorative woodblockprinted paper. Each painstakingly hand-printed patterncommunicates a message like a wish for peace or good luck.
The ninety-six karakami sheets in this book can be removed

Culture / Gifts

dancers move with a sword or fan as chanters recite Japanese andand used as stationery.
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Highlights

Snow White¥3,000ISBN 978 4 86152 517 9¥3,000ISBN 978 4 86152 619 0

Art / Photography

Snowy World

Ukiyo-e

Revolutionary in format, the 360° Book brings

Yusuke Oono

alive an enchanting panoramic world: when

Earth and the Moon
¥3,000ISBN 978 4 86152 551 3

Designopened, the book expands into a circle, drawing
the finely crafted two-dimensional scenes on thepages into a dynamic three-dimensional one.

Mount Fuji
¥3,000ISBN 978 4 86152 516 2

90 × 90 mm 30 sheets
case 120 × 120 × 20 mm
Japanese / English

Hokusai: Sparrow Dance¥2,500ISBN 978 4 86152 723 4

Culture / Gifts
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Highlights

Para-Para Flipbooks: Cats
Harumin Asao
40 × 100 × 20 mm 168 pp
softcover with slipcase¥1,400God of Bug Eater
216 pp¥1,600ISBN 978 4 86152 418 9

Munch—The Scream
ISBN 978 4 86152 296 3

Monet—Impression, Sunrise
208 pp¥1,400ISBN 978 4 86152 510 0

ISBN 978 4 86152 469 1

Ukiyo-eA Cat’s Welcome

208 pp¥1,400ISBN 978 4 86152 715 9

Art / Photography

In a Kitten’s Way of
Greeting

40 × 100 mm
softcover with slipcase

Christmas Comes Along
168 pp¥1,600ISBN 978 4 86152 316 8

Christmas Secret
65 × 120 mm 180 pp¥1,500ISBN 978 4 86152 819 4ISBN 978 4 86152 438 7

DesignCat’s Birthday

Para-Para Flipbooks: Fruity Samurai

50 × 120 × 18 mm 168 pp
softcover with slipcase¥1,200Cat’s Proposal

Duel of Samurai Apples
ISBN 978 4 86152 704 3

The Land of Fruity Samurai
ISBN 978 4 86152 485 1

New Edition

ISBN 978 4 86152 705 0

Culture / Gifts

New Edition

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Tokyo Origami
ISBN 978 4 86152 502 5ISBN 978 4 86152 470 7

Art / Photography

Kyoto Origami
The Cochae design team is made up of Yousuke

Highlights

Ori-CaOrigami Card
Books

CochaeJikuhara and Miki Takeda, who explore the “design
Ukiyo-eof play” in their work. They created their first origami
pieces with a modern pop sensibility in 2003.

Ori-CaNeco (Cats) Origami
ISBN 978 4 86152 319 9

Nippon Origami

Design135 × 225 × 5 mm 16 sheets
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,200ISBN 978 4 86152 059 4

Obake (Spooky) Origami

ISBN 978 4 86152 341 0

Culture / Gifts

Nippon, Tokyo, Kyoto, Neco Origami:
135 × 225 × 5 mm 24 sheets
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,200160 ×160 × 5 mm
18 origami sheets
18 practice sheets
softcoverJapanese / English¥1,400ISBN 978 4 86152 739 563For Now, I Blow
Kisses to You
Ayumi Kudo

180 × 205 × 9 mm 120 pp
softcoverJapanese / English / Italian¥1,800ISBN 978 4 86152 813 2

Lombardy resident Ayumi Kudo began writing
this book on March 10, 2020, the day the stay-athome order went into effect for all of Italy. Throughthe trying days of lockdown, the artist recorded her
turbulent emotions in words and drawings. Her work
offers hope in today’s crisis-ridden world.

Unmeasurable
ThingsAyumi Kudo

The warmth of emotion, the closeness of a loved one,

196 × 180 × 7 mm 60 pp
codexJapanese / English / Italian¥1,600ISBN 978 4 86152 673 2

the weight of hopes and wishes: so many things in life
cannot be measured, though their power can be felt.
This collection of forty-nine unmeasurables depicted
in humorous words and drawings will gladden yourheart. It also makes a wonderful gift.

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