Ukiyo-e to Horimono - by Jan Van Doesburg

Size: 24cm x 32cm - Pages: 320 - Published: 2013 - Price: $100 - Binding: Hardcover

This is a really informative book on the history of both Japanese woodblocks and Japanese tattooing. Covering the development of both from the floating world through to present day, it explores the Ainu Indians, the tattooed firefighters, kabuki actors, the yakuza and includes a brilliant section on iconography which explains the symbolism of popular Japanese motifs. It features full page, full color prints of tattoos in ukiyo-e, with full explanations in English. I highly recommend this book.

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RARE Fudo Myoo temple catalog - 5 available

• This is an out of print Fudo Myoo temple circular
• 7"x10" and 16pages featuring 10 Fudo Myoo images and a great illustration of his sword.
• $48
  

Size: 6" x 8" - Pages: 73 - Published:2006 - Price: $80 - Softcover

This is one of Trevor Brown's first books - now out of print. Cover to cover Brown girls tressed with clamps, braces, syringes, tubing, bones, splints, eyeballs, blood, bandages, amputations, slings, ball gags, nurses with whips, eye patches, stitches, white cotton panties, black eyes and bow ties. I still can't flick thru a Trevor Brown book without shruddering...but I guess that's the point.

I have a copy in stock now and if I don't have it in I will add you to our list and email you when I get another one in.

Horimono in Japan - Rare Japanese Tattoo Book circa 1973

This book is cool.

Size: 18.5 ” x 23 ” - Pages: 144 - Published: 1973 - Price: $180 - Softcover


This is an old and super rare book on Japanese tattoos.It's amazing. I have one in my personal collection I found years ago and just picked up this duplicate copy over the weekend. It includes both color and monochrome ukiyo-e with tattoo imagery, some wonderfully dated Japanese people showing off their tattoowork, examples of tattoos in the old samurai movies, photos of tebori being performed, photos of festivals like the sanja matsuri where tattooed men in fundoshi gather to celebrate. There is a photo of a removed tattooed skin as well as photos of Western style tattoos of the time period. This book is a piece of history.


This book is out of print and really hard to find. I do have 1 in stock but if you want it get it now because I cannot guarantee running across another copy.



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OOP Kano Hogai Collection

Size: 10" x 12.5" - Pages: 104 - Published: 1979 - Price: $125 - Softcover

This is a must have reference book. Kano Hogai was a 19thC Japanese painter most famous for his dragons, falcon and Kannon images. He painted on silk scrolls, his style amazingly detailed, and his use of color more bold than his forefathers the ukiyo-e masters. This book boasts nice big full page images along with a couple of fold-outs - excellect for examining the intricate details in the illustrations. I have a copy now and if I don't have it in stock I will add you to our list and email you when I get another one in.

The Best Book of Cocks Ever!

I am gonna come right out and say it....this is the best book on cocks I have ever seen!! It is amazing!! Beautifully bound and printed on high quality paper this book boasts 400 pages full of images of Japanese roosters - really, really incredible. Includes stunning photographs as well as images in art. The book includes few pages of text (in Japanese) the rests is full color images. This is a brilliant reference book for any artist interested in traditional and not so traditional Japanese renditions of these great birds. This book is out of print so snatch it up now.

Size: 6” x 9” - Pages: 400 - Published: 2004 - Price: $125 - Binding: Softcover


Click here to order off the website: Niwatori (Japanese Roosters)

Suehiro Maruo's Maruograph I - Out of Print and Wicked Good!!!

Suehiro Maruo is Japan's prince of "ero-guru" - erotic grotesque manga. His imagery is unsettling at first and rapidly becomes well, offensive. Cute circus attired heroines, insects, eyeballs, haunting protagonists with shaded faces, moths, dripping faces, tentacles, vomit, cracks, blood....all lend themselves graciously to Maruo's canvas and reemerge in grim playgrounds for evil. This book is out of print and includes both color plates as well as monochrome illustrations. A must have for manga collectors or Japanophiles with a proclivity for wickedness.

Size: 7.5 " x 10.5" - Pages: 88 - Published: 1996 - Price: $100 - Hardcover

Click here to order: Suehiro Maruo's Maruograph I - OOP

Tattoos in Ukiyo-e - Rare Book for Collectors

This book is epic. A beautiful cloth bound hardback filled with full page color reproductions of ukiyo-e prints that feature tattooed individuals. Heavily prevalent are firemen portraits from the edo period when tattoos served as emblems of protection, strength and heroism. This collection boasts over 80 prints as well 11 double page fold outs. It is the only book available devoted to tattoos in Ukiyoe and is a collectors dream both in presentation and content.

Size: 8.5 " x 12" - Pages: 211 - Published: 1976 - Price: $475 Hardcover w/Silpcase


Click here to order off the website: Rare Book on Tattoos in Ukiyo-e














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