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Jun (Jun'ichiro) Sekino
Postscript Thoughts on "The Book of the Ghost". This very rare booklet with woodblock-printed covers is Sekino's reflections on having produced and self-published the 1950 woodblock-printed work, "The Book of the Ghost". The cover page reads, "Please Read this Little Booklet as a Personal Letter from Me."
Publisher: The artist's Sosaku Shuppan company.
The book is a single sheet folded into eight pages and has a wonderful T. Kato ex-libris inside.
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Kiyoshi Saito
Dachsund (from a series of dachsunds)
Date: ca. 1950s.
Sheet size: Approximately 11.5 x 8.25 inches.
Image size: 8.5 x 6 inches. Pencil signed on the front and sealed on the back by Saito.
Self-published by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Margin creased at top and lower left corner. Faint tone line in margin.

Kaoru Kawano
Girl With Mask
Date: 1950s.
Size: Approximately 16.75 x 11.25 inches.
Signed in pencil and sealed by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Back corners have pieces of tape.

Kaoru Kawano
Buddha and Bird
Date: 1950s
Size: Double oban. Approximately 23.75 x 18 inches.
Edition: No. 12 of 300.
Sealed and pencil-signed by the artist. Kawano's label stating that the print is self-carved and self-printed is on the back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent with small wave in margins. Top back margin has tape remnant

Hiratsuka Un-ichi
Pagoda of Joruriji Temple, Kyoto
Date: 1960
Edition: 21/80
Size: Approximately 20 x 13.25 inches.
Artist's seal lower left. Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Back margin has tape remnants. Outer margin toned.

Kaoru Kawano
Two Girls
Date: 1950s-60s
Size: Approximately 16.5 x 11.5 inches.
Sealed by the artist at lower right and on verso.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. We've removed this print from its original folder.

Hiratsuka Un-ichi (1895 ~ 1997)
Selected Woodcuts By Un-ichi Hiratsuka
Date: 1954
Publisher: Nippon Geijyutsu Hangasha
This rare book contains 30 lithographic plates (23 black-and-white, 7 color) by the renowned sosaku hanga artist. English and Japanese text.
Size: 14.25 x 10.5 inches.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Very good. Light toning and foxing.

Kaoru Kawano
Sylvan
Date: 1950s
Size: Double oban. Approximately 23.75 x 18 inches.
Edition: No. 91 of 100.
Sealed and pencil-signed by the artist. Kawano's label stating that the print is self-carved and self-printed is on the back.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Toned paper. The black background is more uniform than in the photo. It catches the light due to Kawano's use of mica.

Rei Yuki (1928-2003)
Coincidence (Guzen)
Edition: 4/60
Pencil signed, titled and numbered.
Not dated.
Paper size: 12.5 x 10.25 inches.
Condition: The back has light tape marks. The paper is thinner at the upper right corner margin.

Kiyoshi Saito
Maiko
Date: ca. 1960.
Size: Oban. Approximately 17.25 x 11.5 inches.
Pencil signed and sealed by Saito.
Self-published by the artist.
Silver mica is used on the collar.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent. Back margins have adhesive residue.

Urushibara Mokuchu (Yoshijiro) (1888-1953)
Horse (Facing Left)
Date: ca. 1940s.
Size: Oban. Approximately 14.5 x 10.5 inches.
Signed "Y. Urushibara" in pencil.
Sealed "Mokuchu".
Round watermark at right margin.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Toko Shinoda (b. 1913)
Title: Echo
Size: Approximately 27.5 x 20.5 inches.
Date: 1990s-2000s.
Edition: 2/25.
Medium: Lithograph with brushstrokes.
Condition: Outer margin edge has a few spots.

Toko Shinoda (b. 1913)
Title: Autumnal
Size: Approximately 28.5 x 20.5 inches.
Date: 1990s-2000s.
Edition: 16/38.
Medium: Lithograph with brushstrokes.
Condition: A very slight difference in the tone of the white outside the image area. The print was once matted.

Sadao Watanabe
Look at the Birds of the Air
From the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:26)
Stencil on momigami paper.
Date: 1968.
Edition: 40/50.
Signed and dated by the artist.
Image size: 21 x 17.75 inches. Paper size: 26 x 23 inches.
Condition: Excellent color and condition. Paper edges wrapped to thin backing. Margin outer edges toned from previous framing.

Takehiko Hironaga (b. 1935)
A Store in Kakunodate (2) - From the Akita / Kakunodate Series
Japanese title: Kakunodate no Shouho 角館の商舗 (2)
Size: 24 x 18.5 inches.
Date: 1982.
Edition: 23/50.
Condition: Excellent. Right margin has toning.
Hironaga traveled throughout Japan to make prints of its traditional buildings. The influence of his friend Kiyoshi Saito is apparent in this work.

Yuichi Hasegawa (b. 1945)
Record of Wind Erosion (Red)
Japanese title: Fushoku-ki (Aka)
Date: 1989
Edition: 4/20
Signed in pencil by the artist.
Paper size: 24.25 x 12 inches. Image size: 20 x 8.75 inches.
Reference: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Excellent.

Masao Ido
Zuihou-In III (Rock garden)
Date: 1990.
Size: Approximately 18 x 13 inches.
Edition: 27/180
Signed in pencil and sealed by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Faint matte line in margin.
Zuihoin is part of Daitoku-ji Temple in Kyoto.

Sadao Watanabe
John Calvin. Commissioned by the Japan Calvin Translation Society.
Stencil on momigami paper.
Date: 1963
Signed and dated by the artist.
Size: 17 x 11 inches.
Condition: Unframed. Excellent.