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Aino Folktales (1888)

Books /

Religion, Myth & Legend, Stories

Aino Folktales (1888)

Images from Japanese Design Magazine *Shin-Bijutsukai* (1902)

Design & Typography

Images from Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai (1902)

Kaishi Hen, an 18th-Century Japanese Anatomical Atlas

Science & Medicine

Kaishi Hen, an 18th-Century Japanese Anatomical Atlas

Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)

Colonialism & the ‘Other’, Customs & Culture, Technology

Japanese Prints of Western Inventors, Artists and Scholars (1873)

The Hare of Inaba (1892)

Books /

Animals & Beasts, Politics, Religion, Myth & Legend

The Hare of Inaba (1892)

Colorised Stereographs of The Russo-Japanese War (1905)

Colorised Stereographs of The Russo-Japanese War (1905)

Japanese Depictions of North Americans (1860s)

People, Colonialism & the ‘Other’

Japanese Depictions of North Americans (1860s)

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)

War, Humour & Satire

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)

Books /

Religion, Myth & Legend, Ghosts & Occult

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)

Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan

Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan

A Collection of Fashionable English Words (1887)

A Collection of Fashionable English Words (1887)

Utagawa Hiroshige: Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e

Utagawa Hiroshige: Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e

The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll (18th–19th century)

Ghosts & Occult

The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll (18th–19th century)

Hamonshu: A Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1903)

Books /

Design & Typography, Natural World

Hamonshu: A Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1903)

Polychrome Woodblocks of Itō Jakuchū Birds

Animals & Beasts

Polychrome Woodblocks of Itō Jakuchū Birds

Ogawa Kazumasa’s Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers (1896)

Ogawa Kazumasa’s Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers (1896)

Photographs of Japanese Sword Guards (1916)

Design & Typography

Photographs of Japanese Sword Guards (1916)

Herbert Geddes’ “Life in Japan” Collection: Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era

Customs & Culture

Herbert Geddes’ “Life in Japan” Collection: Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era

Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)

Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)

*Unai no tomo*: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)

Religion, Myth & Legend

Unai no tomo: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of *Utsuro-bune*

Colonialism & the ‘Other’, Technology, Strange Phenomena

Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune

Hokusai’s *Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China* (1836)

War, Religion, Myth & Legend

Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)

*A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns* (1837)

Natural World, Music & Arts

A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

Architecture, Landscapes

Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32)

Ikkyū in Hell: *Skeletons* (1692)

Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

*Clear Shadows* (1867)

Customs & Culture

Clear Shadows (1867)

Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

Animals & Beasts, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)

Religion, Myth & Legend

“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)

*Sekka Zusetsu*: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

Design & Typography, Geometry & Diagrams, Science & Medicine, Technology

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s *De Acupunctura* (1683)

Science & Medicine, Colonialism & the ‘Other’

Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)

Essays

In Praise of Halvings: Hidden Histories of Japan Excavated by Dr D. Fenberger

In Praise of Halvings: Hidden Histories of Japan Excavated by Dr D. Fenberger

By Roger McDonald

Roger McDonald on the mysterious Dr Daniel Fenberger and his investigations into an archive known as “The Book of Halved Things". more

28 Mar 2019