Title and Author Index to Andon, the journal of the Society for Japanese Arts

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1 Spring 1981 Introduction R. de Bruijn
Three Days in Paris R. de Bruijn
Galerie Huguette Berès: Sharaku Matthi Forrer
Namban ou de l'Européisme Japonais - Japan Style H.M. Kaempfer - H.M. Kaempfer
Laurence Binyon R. de Bruijn
Albert Brockhaus, Netsuke J. van Daalen Jr.
Japanese Prints: 300 Years of Albums and Books H.M. Kaempfer
A little known print series by Utamaro Israel Goldman
Jack Hillier: "The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration" R. de Bruijn
A note on Buncho Richard Lane
2 Summer 1981 The Ancient Japanese Pillar Clock Wilhelm Brandes
Modern Netsuke in Traditional Style Richard R. Silverman
The Asahina Long Surimono Matthi Forrer
Bunchō once more R. de Bruijn
Hokusai Wakan Ehon Sakigake Matthi Forrer
Exquisite Visions: Rimpa Paintings from Japan H.M. Kaempfer
3 Autumn 1981 Kappazuri-e: Japanese stencil prints H.R.W. Kühne
Sugimura's Heike Prints Richard Lane
Kuniyoshi's Low Tide at Susaki, a five panel surimono Roger Keyes
Katsukawa Shunen: a new discovery Heinz M. Kaempfer
Kuniyoshi and his publishers F.K. Lotgering
Review: Klaus J. Brandt's "Hosoda Eishi" -first part Roger Keyes
Review: Primitive Ukiyo-e Heinz M. Kaempfer
The Ukiyo-e Prize: 1979 - 1980 Editorial Notice
4 December 1981 Shini-e or "memorial portraits" F.K. Lotgering
Shunei's early career Lawrence H. Bickford
A few notes concerning Kokusai Carole Skiersobolski
Ein neues Buch über Netsuke A. Horodisch
Klaus J. Brandt's "Hosoda Eishi"- second part Roger Keyes
5 Spring 1982 A Note on Bunchō Richard Lane
Plovers and Butterflies: The Soga Brothers in Japanese Prints Roger Keyes
Lids, Boxes and Bags, some notes on a collection of tea-ceramics J. van Daalen Jr.
6 Summer 1982 Sencha Spoons Barry D. Till
Will the Real Toyokuni II Stand Up? Lawrence R. Bickford
Further Considerations on Ippitsusai Bunchō R. de Bruijn
Pictorial Characteristics and the Ascription of Ukiyo-e L.H. van der Tweel
A Note on Shunei Roger Keyes
7 Autumn 1982 An exhibition of fan-prints by Hiroshige R. de Bruijn
Artistry in bamboo Marie Myerscough
Sugimura waves, Harunobu breasts, and .... Bette Davis eyes Richard Lane
On shunei Lawrence R. Bickford
Jacob Pins: The Japanese pillar print - Hashira-e H.M. Kaempfer
Published writings on Japanese prints by Arthur Davison Ficke William Green
8 Winter 1982 Hokusai in Western appreciation Maartje Draak
Hokusai's Dutch connection Willem van Gulik
Hokusai's visit to Nagoya Prof. Susumu Matsudaira
The effect of the Tenpō crisis upon the publication of illustrated books by Hokusai and his school Matthi Forrer
The second Hokusai Roger Keyes
9 Spring 1983 Concerning lacquer techniques and the origin of the inrō H. Arakawa
Poems inspired by Japanese prints William Green
Japanese umbrellas in London rain: a tribute to Jack Hillier David Waterhouse
10 Summer 1983 Two new original surimono by Hokkei Matthi Forrer
New aspects in the field of Osaka Chūban prints Jan van Doesburg
Siegfried Bing 1838 - 1905. An overview of his activities in the field of Oriental art Peter van Dam
Crow or Nightjar? R. de Bruijn
Essays on Japanese art: Some reflections Richard Lane
11 Autumn 1983 A chat on Arthur Davison (1883 - 1945) William Green
Kuniyoshi and his prophet R. de Bruijn
Keep those hands off Toyokuni II! Richard Lane
The scientist and the connoisseur, will they ever meet? L.H. van der Tweel
Book review: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art edited by Yutaka Tazawa Matthi Forrer
Book reviews: Great Japanese Art Series: Ukiyo-e by Tadashi Kobayashi and translated by Mark A. Harbison; Utamaro by Tadashi Kobayashi and translated by Mark A. Harbison; Hiroshige by Isaburō Oka and translated by Stanleigh H. Jones; Zen Ink Paintings by S. Barnet and W. Burto; Early Ukiyo-e Master: Okumura Masanobu by Robert Vergez Matthi Forrer
Book review: Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century by Donald Jenkins with the assistance of Gordon Gilkey and Louise Klemperer Robert Schaap
Book review: The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions by Lawrence Smith Robert Schaap
12 Winter 1983 Collector's seals Matthi Forrer
The frog and toad as seen through netsuke craft Carole Skiersobolski
Published writings of Hamilton Easter Field on Japanese prints William Green
Felix Tikotin 90 years H.M. Kaempfer
Book review: De Samurai: Japanse Krijgslieden, Hun Zwaarden en Zwaardsieraden by J.C. Angel et al Kees Berbee
Book review: Modern Japanese lacquer work (exhibition catalogue) Jan Dees
Book reviews: Surimono. Stampe Augurali nel Giappone del '700 e '800 by Helena Markus; Egoyomi et Surimono: Calendriers et Cartes de Voeux - Gravures sur Bois des XVIlle et XIXe Siècles by Werner Schindler Matthi Forrer
Book review: Kabuki Prints: Ukiyoe - Yakusha-e G.C. Uhlenbeck
Book review: Yoshitoshi's Thirty-six Ghosts by John Stevenson, with an introduction by Donald Richie Robert Schaap
Letter to the editors / From the editors
13 Spring 1984 Dr. Arthur B. Duel (1870 - 1936). An American collector of Japanese prints William Green
Yakusha mitate Tōkaidō gojūsan eki. A Tōkaidō-album by Kunisada F.K. Lotgering
The decadent period of criticism in ukiyo-e scholarship Lawrence R. Bickford
Book review: A Sprinkling of Gold: The Lacquerbox Collection of Elaine Ehrenkranz by Barbra Teri Okada Jan Dees
Book review: The Shogun Age Exhibition Robert Schaap
Letter to the editors
14 Summer 1984 An over-all view of Japanese ceramics and how they relate to netsuke Richard R. Silverman
Moronobu's 'Pillow-picture Compendium' Revisited Richard Lane
A peerless pair: Frederick W. Gookin and Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art Institute of Chicago's 1908 exhibition of Japanese prints William Green
15 Autumn 1984 Strings, bows and bridges. Some provisional remarks on the Kokyū in woodblock prints Onno Mensink
A variant impression on Hiroshige's Ōhashi Marco Fagioli, Mario Materassi
Two swords at an exhibition in Rotterdam L.C. Duindam
Lacquered netsuke: An attempt at understanding Carole Skiersobolski
Book review: Il Teatro Kabuki nelle Xilografie del Periodo Edo H.R.W. Kühne
Book review: Iconography of the Tale of Genji: Genji monogatari ekotoba by Miyeko Murase Matthi Forrer
Book review: Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Prints in the Spencer Museum of Art by Roger Keyes Matthi Forrer
Book review: Welten aufeinem Knebel by Wolfmar Zacken A. Horodisch
Book reviews: Fukei: Landscapes and Views - Prints by Eli Lancman and Pnina Rosenberg; The Spirit of Place: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries by Louisa Cunningham Robert Schaap
Letter to the editors / Erratum
16 Winter 1984 Lost in time: The unpublished masterpiece on Katsukawa Shunshō William Green
Some notes on Japanese stencil makers T. Volker
Meet the collector: Kobe toys Sandra Andacht
Book review: The World of Kameda Bōsai by Stephen Addiss Heinz M. Kaempfer
Book reviews: 100 Selected Tsuba from European Public Collections by Robert Haynes and Robert Burawoy; Die Kunst der Samurai by H.J. Eschbaum, M. Hagenbusch, Han Bing Siong, Trudel Klefisch, J. Anderson and B. le Dauphin L. C. Duindam
Book reviews: Masters of Japanese Calligraphy, 8th - 19th century by Yoshiaki Shimizu and John M. Rosenfield; Words in Motion: Modern Japanese Calligraphy (Worte in Bewegung) with introductions by Aoyama San'u, Stephen Addiss, Barbara Rose, Yanagida Taiun and Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter Robert Schaap
17 Spring 1985 Charles Mitchell: A 75th birthday tribute Jack Hillier
CH. Mitchell: A brief memoir Richard Lane
Cartoons by Kobayashi Kiyochika Robert Vergez
Nagasaki prints. An introduction Frederick J. Roach
Rarities from Japan - Part 1. The lacquerwares in three early nineteenth century Dutch collections Cynthia Viallé
18 Summer 1985 Illustrated books and magazines by Onchi Kōshirō Robert Vergez
The three ages of Ichikawa Danjūrō VII. Kunisada's depiction of Danjūrō VII in youth, maturity and old age Ellis Tinios
Wakai Kenzaburō, the connaisseur Peter van Dam
19 Autumn 1985 Rarities from Japan. The lacquerwares in three early nineteenth century Dutch collections - Part 2 Cynthia Viallé
Book review: Japanese Ink Painting: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in cooperation with the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Government of Japan, from March 10 to May 12, 1985 Heinz M. Kaempfer
Book review: Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Catalogue of the Mary A. Ainsworth Collection by Roger S. Keyes, with contributions by Robert L. Feller, Mary Curran and Catherine W. Bailie Charlotte van Rappard-Boon
20 Winter 1985 In memoriam Heinz M. Kaempfer 20 April 1904 - 14 March 1986 R. de Bruijn
A masterpiece: the twelve bronze falcons Peter van Dam
Eros crosses the seas: Ming erotica in Edo Japan Richard Lane
Treasures from heaven: children of Japan in the prints of ukiyo-e William Green
21 Spring 1986 Kuniyoshi: an appreciation of his drawings Marco Fagioli
Dreaming of Fuji, falcon and eggplant Matthi Forrer
Shimabara and Sumiya Richard Lane
Book review: Japanese ghosts & demons: Art of the Supernatural edited by Stephen Addiss Robert Schaap
Book review: Tales of Japan: Scrolls and Prints from the New York Public Library by Miyeko Murase Robert Schaap
Book review: Hiroshige: 'Kambara' - The Anatomy of a Japanese Print by Richard Lane Donald Richie
The Japonism of Claude Monet R. de Bruijn
The front cover Robert Schaap
22 Summer 1986 Toyokuni II revisited Lawrence R. Bickford
Uzawa Shōgetsu. Fifty-six lacquer objects in the Bauer Collection Jan Dees and René van der Star
Letter to the editors
23 Autumn 1986 On the dating of Hokusai's Fuji Richard Lane
In memoriam Felix Tikotin 1893 - 1986 R. de Bruijn
Satsuma of the Edo period Sandra Andacht
The front cover Ken Vos
A footnote to Hiroshige's Meisho hyakkei Ellis Tinios
24 Winter 1986 A response to Dr. Bickford Ellis Tinios
A reply to Mr. Tinios Lawrence R. Bickford
FYI Sandra Andacht
Hokusai's Gothic connection: The yomi-hon Richard Lane
QA Raymond Bushell
Banko wares Sandra Andacht
How did these girls lose their heads? Paul R. Schweitzer
The front cover Matthi Forrer
25 Spring 1987 The Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts 1937 - 1987 Matthi Forrer
The anatomy of a Shunshō masterpiece Lawrence R. Bickford
The Royal Bazar of Dirk Boer Peter van Dam
Prussian blue and the dating of Hokusai's Fuji series Lawrence R. Bickford
Obituary Nathan Chaikin (1907 - 1987) A. Querido
Book review: Netsuke: The Hull Grundy Collection in the British Museum by Victor Harris M.J. Eijer
Book review: Kunisada: An Artist in the Kabuki Theatre Chris Uhlenbeck
Book review: Country Textiles of Japan: The Art of Tsutsugaki by Reiko Mochinaga Brandon Matthi Forrer
26 Summer 1987 The art of onnagata in the prints of Utagawa Kunisada Ellis Tinios
Illustrations of the 'Four Seasons' by Maruyama Ōkyo in the Haikaika Miyako manshū Jack Hillier
The fifth image of Shunman's Yamabushi series of surimono Paul R. Schweitzer
Sumida Gawa wares Sandra Andacht
The front cover René van der Star
Book review: The Art of the Japanese Book by Jack Hillier Matthi Forrer
Book review: The world of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization by Julia Meech-Pekarik Eric van den Ing
27 / 28 Winter 1987 1987 symposium on the Meiji period
Japanese culture in an age of transition F. Vos
Continuity and change in the economics of Meiji japan P.W. Klein
Trompe-l'oeil, simulation and imitation in the decorative arts of the Meiji period Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz
Continuity and change in Japanese lacquer art during the Meiji and Taishō periods Jan Dees
Early photography and the decline of ukiyo-e Richard Lane
Japan Mania Widar Halén
The front cover Christiaan Uhlenbeck
29 Spring 1988 Hokusai's exotic decade Richard Lane
Grains of performance Jan van Bremen
Some remarks on an exhibition of contemporary Japanese goldleather Isabel Tanaka-van Daalen
Book review: Japanese Art Signatures by James Self and Nobuko Hirose Ken Vos
Book review: Japanese Antique Dolls by Jill and David Gribbin Ken Vos
Book review: Helden, Schurken, Kurtisanen: Das japanische Kabukitheater des 19. Jahrhunderts in Holzschnitten der Osakameister by Hendrik Lühl, Ulrich Gockeln, et al Robert Schaap
The front cover Matthi Forrer
30 Summer 1988 Early 19th century porcelain netsuke in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden David Hyatt King
A rare album print by Sukenobu surfaces for study William Green
Imperial lacquer boxes by Akatsuka Jitoku Jan Dees
Shunman's 'Yamabushi series' of surimono revisited Jan H. Willem Goslings
Book review: Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan by Henry D. Smith II G.C. Uhlenbeck
Book review: Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden by Matthi Forrer Eric van den Ing
Book review: La Voix Silencieuse des Choses: Natures Mortes Japonaises, XVIIIe et XIXe Siècles by Janette Ostier, Matthi Forrer, Reiko Vergnerie, and Nelly Delay J.H.W. Goslings
The front cover M.J. Eijer
31 Autumn 1988 Yanagi Sōetsu on les idéaux d'une pensée nourrie par l'est et l'ouest Elizabeth Frolet
The characteristics of wooden boxes with regard to temperature and humidity Sadatoshi Miura
The birth of kentō Richard Kruml
A rare chūban print by Bunchō R. de Bruijn
The front cover Matthi Forrer
32 Winter 1988 Cumulative subject index
Harunobu's relationship with Hiraga Gennai Allen Hockley
Chrysanthemums under the eastern hedge Jan Dees
How to draw actor portraits Ellis Tinios
33 May 1990 Japanese prints conservation. An overview Keiko Mizushima Keyes
Japanese flower prints William E. Harkins
Fujiyama and Eiffel Tower R. de Bruijn
The front cover Ken Vos
Book review: Urushi, proceedings of the 1985 Urushi Study Group edited by N.S. Brommelle and Perry Smith Jan Dees
Book review: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Henry D. Smith II Robin Kennedy
Book review: Ōsaka Prints by Dean J. Schwaab J.H. Gisolf
34 August 1990 Kawanabe Kyōsai's paintings in Europe and the United States Oikawa Shigeru
Two surimono-style shunga albums Jan H. Willem Goslings
Chinkinbori, gold engraving in lacquerware. A literature study Jan Dees
Kentō-huzare: Slightly off-register? Richard Lane
Identification of Prussian blue Rochelle Wexler Bickford
The front cover Ken Vos
Book review: Hokusai by Matthi Forrer, with texts by Edmond de Goncourt Peter Morse
35 October 1990 Kawahara Keiga in the Hermitage Museum Victoria Dashkevich-Purto
The Japanese sword, the supreme of metallurgical art Han Bing Siong
Book designs by Onchi, the graphic master Robert Vergez
Little Benkei, little Sōri: the anatomy of a surimono Richard Lane
The front cover Jørgen J. Witsenburg
Letter to the editor
Book review: The Charles A. Greenfield collection Jan Dees
Book review: Hiroshige: Birds and Flowers with introduction by Cynthea J. Bogel, commentaries by Israel Goldman, and poetry translated by Alfred H. Marks Robin Kennedy
Book review: Hokusai: Life and Work by Richard Lane Eric van den Ing
36 March 1991 Tetsubin P.L.W. Arts
Utagawa Sadamasu, creator of the Osaka chūban style Jan van Doesburg
The Kiritsu Kōshō Kaisha Hasegawa Sakae
Two rare prints by Hokusai R. de Bruijn
The front cover Robert B. Kleyn
Book review: What about Kunisada? by Jan van Doesburg Lawrence R. Bickford
37 June 1991 Sketch-tour books and prints of the early twentieth century Scott Johnson
A rare Hiroshige Daishō surimono appears at Amherst college William Green
The front cover René van der Star
Book review: Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, by John Ayers, Oliver Impey, and J.V.G. Mallet Ken Vos
38 September 1991 The tales of Ise in lacquerware design Jan Dees
Hokusai's last great series R. de Bruijn
Dr. Steffi Schmidt † Setsuko Kuwabara
The front cover Robert Schaap
Book review: Jojō no shi: Taishō-Shōwa fūkei hangaka, Kawase Hasui (Lyrical poetry: Landscape Artist of the Woodblock Print During the Taisho and Showa Period, Kawase Hasui) Karel Hellemans
Book review: Die Kunst des Alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York edited by Gunhild Avitabile Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz
39 December 1991 Once upon a time...... the story of Benkei. A personal compilation of the events in the life of Benkei, from various sources Arendie H. Kempers
From Namban to Koryūsai: The Floating World of South Kensington Richard Lane
Ojime. An introduction Robert O. Kinsey
40 February 1992 Cumulative subject index
Shūraku, a problem of identities Dieuwke Eijer
Calender prints: egoyomi and surimono Jan H. Willem Goslings
The Kunisada-signature half-length actor portraits of Utagawa Kunisada Ellis Tinios
The front cover Ellis Tinios
Book review: Kabuki through Theater Prints, Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, James A. Michener Collection Henk Herwig
41 June 1992 Harunobu and before: The floating world of Cinquantenaire Richard Lane
Pictures of invisible men Stephen Turnbull
Yamamoto Shōun. prints of beautiful women of new customs and manners Setsuke Abe
The eccentric, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Western influence on his prints of warriors and beautiful women Setsuke Abe
The front cover Ken Vos
Book review: Souvenirs from Japan: Japanese Photography at the Turn of the Century by Margarita Winkel Herman J. Moeshart
42 October 1992 Japanese woodblock prints and impressionism Gerhard Pulverer
Photography of prints and small objects Peter Groenewegen
Additional drawings in Hokusai's 'Hundred poets' series Peter Morse
Teenage mutant ninja: the book Richard Lane
The front cover Else Kress
Book review: Undercurrents in the Floating World: Censorship and Japanese Prints by Sarah E. Thompson and Harry D. Harootunian, with an introduction by Vishakha N. Desai John Stevenson
43 January 1993 The American travels of Yoshida Hiroshi Eugene M. Skibbe
Beauties in the shade: Ukiyo-e in the decade of the 1770s Richard Lane
Shells in the Sumiyoshi's shore Jan Dees
Help wanted! Haranobu of fake R. de Bruijn
The front cover Onno Mensink
Book review: Japonisme Comes to America: The Japanese Impact on the Graphic Arts 1876-1925 by Julia Meech and Gabriel P. Weisberg Arendie H. Kempers
Book review: Imitation and Inspiration: Japanese Influence on Dutch Art From 1650 to the Present Ken Vos
44 April 1993 Japanese cloisonné Sandra Borstlap
Once upon a time...... The story of Watanabe no Tsuna. A personal compilation of the events in the life of Watanabe no Tsuna, from various sources Arendie H. Kempers
Help wanted!
Book review: Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon by John Stevenson Scott McDonald
Book review: The New Wave: Twentieth Century Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection by Amy Reigle Stephens Edmond S. Freis
Book review: Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum by Timothy Clark Ellis Tinios
45 September 1993 Frank Lloyd Wright and the woodblock print: the geometric abstraction of natural, man-made, and social forms Kevin Nute
'Love's labour's lost': Some dirty tricks with shunga Richard Lane
Léon de Rosny and the beginning of Japanese studies in France Dr. Joseph Dubois
The front cover Matthi Forrer
Book review: Japanese Netsuke from the Carré Collection Jan Dees
Book review: Japanese Collections in the Freer Gallery of Art: Seto and Mino Ceramics by Louise Allison Cort Len Spanjer
46 Winter 1993 Jury report of the Heinz Kaempfer Fund essay contest
Porcelains for Holland, 1657 - 1862 Menno Fitski
Japanese ceramics at overseas exhibitions during the Bakumatsu period Clare Pollard
Painting with light and shadow. The katakiribori engraving technique as applied to the suspension chains of early 19th century tobacco pouches Alfred P. Haft, III
The front cover Henk J. Herwig
47 March 1994 Inrō made in the Ryūkyūs Else Kress
Three early uchiwa prints by Kunisada Ellis Tinios
Care of Japanese prints Pamela de Tristan
Restoration of a 'Fuji in Clear Weather' Pamela de Tristan
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Book review: Kunisada's World by Sebastian Izzard, with essays by J. Thomas Rimer and John T. Carpenter Tim Clark
Book review: Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Bibliography of Writings from 1822-1993 Entirely or Partly in English Text compiled by William Green Philip J. Shulman
48 July 1994 Early European influences on Japanese pictorial Art Marten Dorhout
Moronobu: 300 years - The Japanese can't say "yes" Richard Lane
Seasons of the pleasure quarters Ed Freis
Book review: Japanese Folk Toys: The Playful Arts by Lea Baten Len Spanjer
The front cover Ken Vos
49 October 1994 Hiroshige: A shoal of red herrings Richard Kruml
Kyōsai at the British Museum Oikawa Shigeru
Sugimura's time-capsule Richard Lane
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Letters to the editor
50 March 1995 Wrestler print studies Lawrence Bickford
Under the spell of Japanese art R. de Bruijn
The history of ukiyo-e between French taste and German philosophy Marco Fagioli
Love cannot be explained Dr. J.H. Gisolf
Collectors delight Jan H. Willem Goslings
Any ukiyo-e? William Green
Overcoming the post-war hostility to Japanese art Jack Hillier
Growing up under the scrutiny of a great Japanese Lady Raymond Kaempfer
In celebration Roger S. Keyes
A collector's lament Gerrit Jan Korteling
Daydreams of Kambun and Genroku Richard Lane
Charlie Mitchell and the 'discovery' of Yoshitoshi Donna Levis
Osaka prints, a love affair Hendrick Lühl
Discovery or good fortune? Ten years with Kyōsai paintings Sigeru Oikawa
Collecting Far Eastern art in Jeruselem Jacob Pins
Kyōchūzan by Kameda Bōsai Gerhard Pulverer
Early awakening B.W. Robinson
Hooked on collecting Japanese art Richard R. Silverman
Acquiring a set of fūzoka sanjūnisō John Stevenson
Kafuku nimpitsu Ellis Tinios
Concerning Fenellosa's death Seiichi Yamaguchi
Book review: The Actor's Image: Print Makers of the Katsukawa School by Timothy T. Clark and Osamu Ueda with an introduction by Donald Jenkins, edited by Naomi Noble Richard David Caplan
The front cover Lea Baten
51 June 1995 Yumeji's Twelve views of Nagasaki Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada
Ganshōsai Shunsui, an early 20th century lacquer artist Jan Dees
Down and out in the Blue-light Yokohama: "Love's labor's lost" encore Richard Lane
Jack Hillier 1912 - 1995 Matthi Forrer
Book review: Kunisada: The Kabuki Actor Portraits by Shindō Shigeru Ellis Tinios
A pair of Yamato dolls
52 September 1995 Poetry, emotion and form in Utamaro's Tōsei koika hakkei John Fiorillo
Three prints from the Taiheiki eiyūden series by Kuniyoshi Elena Varshavskaya
Pigments on Yoshitoshi triptychs John Twilley
Book review: Beauty & Violence: Japanese Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892 by Eric van den Ing and Robert Schaap with an introduction by John Stevenson Roger Keyes
Book review: The Baur Collection - Japanese prints by Matthi Forrer Robert Schaap
Book review: Takejiro Hasegawa: Meiji Japan's Preeminent Publisher of Wood-Block-Illustrated Crepe-Paper Books by Frederic A. Sharf Chris Uhlenbeck
Book review: Stars From the Stage in Osaka: Early 19th-century Japanese Kabuki Prints by Matthi Forrer Hendrick Lühl
Help wanted! Lothar Kazmierczak, Wilhelm Preker
The front cover Robert Schaap
53 March 1996 Yoshida Toshi 1911 - 1995. Diversity, change and continuity in the Yoshida art tradition Eugene M. Skibbe
The Toyokuni signature confusion Lawrence Bickford
Romancing the print. 'Image enhancement' - online ukiyo-e - gender identity Richard Lane
The yamabushi reunited Jan Willem Goslings
Book review: Haiga: Takebe Sōchō and the Haiku-Painting Tradition by Stephen Addiss Eric van den Ing
Book review: The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono by Joan B. Mirviss with John T. Carpenter, introduction by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Jan H. Willem Goslings
54 June 1996 Tragedy and laughter in the floating world: shinjū in the works of Utamaro and Kyōden John Fiorillo
New woodblocks for Toyokuni III's okubi-e actor portraits Eiko Kondo
Letter to the editor
Book review: The Passionate Art of Utamaro by Shūgō Asano and Timothy Clark John Fiorillo
Book review: The index of inrō artists by E.A. Wrangham, edited by Joe Earl Jan Dees
Book review: Teihon ukiyo-e shunga meihin shusei (The complete ukiyo-e shunga) by Richard Lane and Yoshikazu Hayashi Eric van den Ing
55 November 1996 The artist as seer: Yoshida Hodaka 1926 - 1995 Eugene M. Skibbe
The celestial globe as an attribute of a military strategist Elena Varshavskaya
A green kōdansu by Yanagisawa Ippō Jan Dees and J. van Daalen
Toyokuni revisited....... once more Hendrick Lühl
56 February 1997 Once upon a time..... The story of Endō Moritō and Kesa Gozen Arendie Kempers
Two objects in Czech collections from the Makuzu Kozan studio Filip Suchomel
Reply to Mr. Hendrick Lühl Lawrence R. Bickford
Book review: Biobibiographisches Handbuch japanischer und chinesischer buddhistischer und shintōistischer Priester, Münche und Nonnen und mit ihnen verbundener Künstler mit Bedeutung für Schrift und Malerei by Eike Moog Jon de Jong and Robert Schaap
The front cover Robert Schaap
57 September 1997 Akatsuka Jitoku in Buckingham Palace Jan Dees
A remarkable Tōkaidō set Rob de Bruijn
A rare surimono by Shōkōsai and its place among early Osaka actor portraits John Fiorillo
Book review: Das Ding am Gürtel: Japanische Medizin-döschen aus der Sammlung Heinz und Else Kress edited by Theodor Helmert-Corvey Jan Dees
Book review: Edo Culture: Daily life and diversions in urban Japan, 1600-1868 by Nishiyama Matsunosuke, translated and edited by Gerald Groemer Guita Winkel
Long leg and long arm out fishing. The front cover Matthi Forrer
58 April 1998 Hachogane, the musick of eight Onno Mensink
Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan, China & the Chinese in Japanese books and prints; c. 1750 - 1850 Ellis Tinios
Hokusai drawings, from draft to finished print Richard C. Illing
Endō Moritō again Johan Somerwil
The front cover Henk J. Herwig
Researching a Shuntei painting Eric van den Ing
59 July 1998 Hirosada: prints and drawings for the tale of Usuyuki and Chūkō buyūden John Fiorillo
The opening of the 'Japanese Library of Art' in Amsterdam
Multiple paintings Eric van den Ing
Letter to the editor. A manju revisited
Book review: Japanese Inrō by Julia Hutt Jan Dees
Book reviews: Japanese art - The great European collections; Ukiyo-e paintings in Japanese collections Robert Schaap
Book review: The connoisseur's book of Japanese swords by Kokan Nagayama, translated by Kenji Mishina Eric van den Ing
60 September 1998 Pictorial formulae of martial attributes in Kuniyoshi's warrior prints Elena Varshavskaya
Kuniyoshi's cats Rudy Kousbroek
Kuniyoshi's cryptogram Johan Somerwil
The poet and the demon. A Kuniyoshi print and its inspirations Ivo Smits
Book review: The Western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan: The lens within the heart by Timon Screech Martha Chaiklin
A remarkable Tōkaidō set (2) Helmut Wilmes
61 January 1999 One of Seihō's lions Eric van den Ing
Reflections on Zenga Stephen Addis
Kuniyoshi's 'Tokaidō cats' triptich B.W. Robinson
Mr. R. de Bruijn as I remember him Matthi Forrer
Book review: New kabuki encyclopedia: A revised adaptation of Kabuki jiten by Samuel L. Leiter Henk Herwig
Book review: Edo no haru: etoranjie erotikku (Strangers in paradise: the foreign image in Japanese art and shunga) by Richard Lane M. Winkel
62 June 1999 The ningen kokuhō: a new symbol for the Japanese nation Peter Siegenthaler
A glimpse at nishiki-e kuchi-e by Watanabe Seitei Helen Merritt
Letter to Andon. The view from Japan
The front cover Gerrit-Jan Korteling
Book review: Heroes & Ghosts: Japanese prints by Kuniyoshi 1797-1861 by Robert Schaap, with an introduction by Amy Reigle Newland, and essays by Timothy T. Clark, Matthi Forrer, and Inagaki Shin'ichi Merlin Dailey
Book review: Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts with catalog entries by Yoko Woodson and essays by Julia White, Reiko Mochinaga Brandon, and Yoko Woodson John Fiorillo
Book review: Teihon ukiyo-e meihin shūsui by Richard Lane Eric van den Ing
63 October 1999 The Gion Parade stencil prints Peter Ujlaki
Refashioning the legends of komachi in mitate-e John Fiorillo
In memoriam. Bibliography of the writings of Jack Ronald Hillier (1912 - 1995) William Green
Book review: Masterpieces of Japanese art Wim de Hoop
64 December 1999 Colourful Edo: fire and cloth Cynthia Shaver
Dutch influence on Japanese art: Kaitai shinsho (New book of anatomy) and Akita ranga Hiroko Johnson
Book review: Tea of the sages: The art of sencha by Patricia J. Graham Anna Beerens
65 April 2000 An electron transmission analysis of metallic particles in nineteenth century Japanese woodblock prints John Fiorillo, Richard Hashimoto and Sarath Menon
Tsuba, their manufacturers and techniques Brigitta Sueters
Letter to the editor
Book review: The last Tosa: Iwasa Matabei, bridge to ukiyo-e by Sandy Kita Lee Bruschke-Johnson
66 July 2000 The nō-orchestra in print Magda Kyrova
Two supplements
In memory of Eiko Kondo 1931 - 2000 Fiamma Del Gaizo Fusco
Off the block. A new look at the origins of Nagasaki prints Martha Chaiklin
Western inspiration in a print by Yoshitoshi: Yamauba and Kaidōmaru Kris Schiermeier
Book review: Time present and time past: Images of a forgotten master, Toyohara Kunichika, 1835-1900 by Amy Reigle Newland Henk Herwig
Yamamoto Shōun (1870 - 1965) Frederick Harris
67 October 2000 Pictorial representations of the ken-game during the Edo and Meiji periods Sepp Linhardt
Letter to the editor
Kishi Ganku: one date and two plums Jon de Jong
Book review: Miniature masterpieces: The storytelling art of Japanese inrō — Selected objects from the collection of Joseph Kurstin by Joseph Kurstin Johan Somerwil
The series Nōgaku Hyakuban (100 Nō plays) by Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869 - 1927) Claus-Peter Schulz
68 Spring 2001 Darkness and the sounds of music: blind musicians of Tokugawa Japan seen in ukiyo-e William Green
Human figures in Hokusai's Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji Fabienne Delpy
Letter to the editor
In memory of Susuma Matsudaira 1933 - 2000 Peter Ujlaki
Book review: Hirado: Prince of porcelains by Louis Lawrence Menno Fitski
69 October 2001 Pipe cases by Ikeda Taishin. The discovery of an album of charcoal rubbings Jan Dees and Arisumi Mitamura
Japanese lacquerware Susanne Barchalla
Book reviews: Sengai - Master Zen painter by Shōkin Furuta; Old Taoist: The life, art and poetry of Kodōjin (1865-1944) with translations of and commentary on the Chinese poems by Jonathan Chaves, and an essay by J. Thomas Rimer Anna Beerens
Book review: Japanese paintings: A selection from the Baelz collection by Doris Croissant and Misako Wakabayashi Robert Schaap
70 January 2002 Lyricism amid the cannon salvos. A few notes on Japanese prints with the theme of the Sino-Japanese war in the collections of the National Gallery and Náprestek Museum in Prague Philip Suchomel
Sukenobu's colours Henry Kerlen
Two ceramic inrō by Ken'ya Else Kress
Book reviews: Woodblock Kuchi-e prints: Reflections of Meiji culture by Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada Elmer Kolfin, Amy Reigle Newland
71 May 2002 Eizan: Putting on a new face. A mirror of fūryū, asobi and iki John Fiorillo
Stepmother, stepson. Novel by Yanagawa Shun'yō, Kuchi-e by Hirezaki Eihō, published by Kanao Bun'endō Nanako Yamada
The blind as metaphorical subjects in the pictorial arts of Japan Helmut Wilmes
Book review: Crows, cranes & camellias: The natural world of Ohara Koson 1877-1945 — Japanese prints from the Jan Perrée collection by Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perrée and Robert Schaap W. John Minzinga
72 & 73 October 2002 Editor's introduction John Fiorillo and Peter Ujlaki
A personal note Peter Ujlaki
Matsudaira Susumu, 1933 - 2000
A selected list of books and monographs on ukiyo-e from Kamigata and Edo by Matsudaira Susumu
Tani Seikō and his circle Roger Keyes
Notes on the sumizuri actor prints of Kyoto Kitagawa Hiroko
A brief overview of Kamigata stencil prints Nakade Akifumi & Peter Ujlaki
Representing rivalry and transition in kabuki. Arashi Kichisaburō versus Nakamura Utaemon III C. Andrew Gerstle
Ireki in Osaka actor prints Hendrick Lühl
Edo actors in Osaka prints: Surimono by Ukiyo Utayoshi John T. Carpenter
Osaka tattoos Jan van Doesburg
Ryūsai Shigeharu: 'Quick change' dances in the Utaemon tradition John Fiorillo and Peter Ujlaki
74 May 2003 Japanese treasures from Sumatra's West coast. Japanese porcelain from the Verbeek Collection Jan van Campen
Shibaraku! Reflections on viewing a masterly portrait of Danjūrō Toyokuni I William Green
Robert O. Muller, 1912 - 2003 Chris Uhlenbeck
Emma-ō, the king of Hell Johan Somerwil
Book review: The Tale of Genji: Legends and paintings, introduction by Miyeko Murase Arendie Kempers
Book review: Shintō: The sacred art of ancient Japan edited by Victor Harris Mark Teeuwen
Book review: Inrō of the Ryūkyūs: Lacquered medicine containers by Else and Heinz Kress, with an introduction by Josef Kreiner Jan Dees
75 October 2003 Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list Peter Ujlaki and Nakade Akifumi
Book review: Hasui: The complete woodblock prints by Ken Brown and Amy Reigle Newland (gen. ed.), an essay by Watanabe Shōichirō and catalogue contributions by Inge Klompmakers, Merel Molenaar, Amy Reigle Newland, Okura Haruko, Dick N.W. Raatgever, Robert Schaap and Chris Uhlenbeck W. John Minzinga
Book review: The prints of Isoda Koryūsai: Floating World culture and its consumers in eighteenth-century Japan by Allen Hockley James King
76 March 2004 The Somada lacquer workshop at Toyama. Part I, Shell-inlaid objects made by Somada craftsmen during more than 200 years Hideki Yoshikawa
Imari marks and their origin Henri Kerlen
On the death of Dr. Richard Lane Eric van den Ing
Kachō-e by Seiko compared with Watanabe Seitei's illustrated books on birds and flowers Dietrich Neumann and Robert Schaap
Gassaku, japanese co-productions Jon de Jong
77 November 2004 On Czech collections of Japanese art Helena Honcoopová
Ancient and modern ways of handling the brush. A didactic handscroll by Kawamura Bumpō Ellis Tinios
The Somada lacquer workshop at Toyama. Part II, Rareness of Somada inrō Hideki Yoshikawa
Edo on a mouse click. The picture scroll Kidai shōran Hideki Yoshikawa
Book review: The commercial and cultural climate of Japanese printmaking edited by Amy Reigle Newland Daniel McKee
Book review: Hōeidō-ban, Hiroshige: Tōkaidō Gojūsan tsugi by Juzō Suzuki, Yaeko Kimura and Jun'ichi Ōkubo Setsuko Kuwabara
78 March 2005 A jumping carp by Yamamoto Shunkyo and Paul Claudel Victor M. Schmidt
A constellation of sources. Shuntei, Toyokuni I and the genesis of Kuniyoshi's warrior prints James King
Kawase Hasui and the Byōdōin Julie Weissenberg-Deville
Kuniyoshi's Taiheiki series: 50 or 51 prints? Johan Somerwil
Book review: Japanese kite pints: Selections from the Skinner Collection by John Stevenson Daniel McKee
Book reviews: The potter's brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese ceramics by Richard L. Wilson; Turning point: Oribe and the arts of sixteenth-century Japan edited by Miyeko Murase Menno Fitski
Book review: Handbuch japanischer Holzschnitt: Hintergründe, Techniken, Themen und Motive by Friedrich B. Schwan Andreas Marks
Book review: Japon rêvé: Edmond de Goncourt et Hayashi Tadamasa by Brigitte Koyama-Richard Arendie Kempers
79 December 2005 Treasure your storage boxes. Tomobako for lacquer objects as carriers of historical data Jan Dees
Keisai Eisen and his landscapes with Dutch letter borders Daan Kok
Gregorios Manos and the Corfu Museum of Asian Art Aglaia Karamandou
Jizō bosatsu. Guardian of children and travellers Johan Somerwil
Book review: Inrō shita-e: Design Drawings from a Japanese Lacquer Workshop by Else Kress and Heinz Kress Jan Dees
Book review: Collecting Japanese antiques by Alistair Seton Johan Somerwil
Book reviews: Dipinti e stampe del Mondo Fluttuante: Capolavori Ukiyoe del Museo Chiossone di Genova by Donatella Failla; Avvolti nel mito: Tessuti e costumi tra Settecento e Novecento dalla collezione Montgomery edited by Annie M. van Assche Victor M. Schmidt
Special Enjuka 2006 Yonezo
Preface
Enjuka. An Osaka master of the deluxe print during the transition to the final period John Fiorillo and Hendrick Lühl
Enjuka database
Appendices
Back page
80 June 2006 News nishiki-e. An arranged marriage that didn't last William Wetherall and Mark Schreiber
Putting three and three together. Discovering a Kuniyoshi polytech (among other finds) David R. Weinberg
Collecting Japanese art in Hungary around the turn of the 20th century Monika Bincsik
Kangi-ten the secret deity Johan Somerwil
In memoriam B.W. Robinson. 20th June 1912 - 29th December 2005 Robin Kennedy
Jacob Pins: artist, collector and connoisseur Raymond Kaempfer and Rebecca Bitterman
Book review: Written Texts - Visual Texts: Woodblock-printed media in Early Modern Japan Edited by Susanne Formanek & Sepp Linhart William Wetherall
Book review: The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints by Amy Reigle Newland (General editor) and specialist advisers Julie Nelson Davis, Oikawa Shigeru, Ellis Tinios and Chris Uhlenbeck Andreas Marks
81 January 2007 When the shogun travels to Kyoto. The great Processional Tōkaidō series Andreas Marks
Caring for netsuke Margrit Reuss and Farideh Fekrsanati
Ireki and the marketing of an artist John Fiorillo
Book reviews: Haiku & Heiga: Moments in word and image — Four centuries of Japanese scroll paintings from the Jon de Jong collection (Augenblicke in Wort und Bild: Japanische Rollbilder aus vier Jahrhunderten aus der Sammlung Jon de Jong) Thomas Hirsch, Victor M. Schmidt
82 July 2007 La maison d'un artiste Max Put
The Japanese incense culture and its related implements, focusing on maki-e lacquer Monica Bincsik
Chinese and Japanese lacquers from the Medici Collection Francesco Morena
Utagawa Kunisada's reissues Andreas Marks
Osaka kabuki at the BM. Quantum jumps in the print field Peter Ujlaki
Book review: Japanese popular prints: From votive slips to playing cards by Rebecca Salter Lawrence Smith
83 March 2008 Kuniyoshi's ken caricatures between 1847 and 1853 Sepp Linhart
'The Courtisan Takao' by Toyohara Kunichika Amy Reigle Newland with Makuuchi Tatsuji
Four variations of Ōboshi Rikiya Yoshikane in Kuniyoshi's series Seichū gishi den Hendrick Lühl
Game over - The last days of hand-made Japanese playing cards Rebecca Salter
A rejoinder to William Wetherall's book review of Written Texts - Visual Texts in Andon 80 Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart
Kimono pattern books in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rachael Saunders
Book review: Ehon, The artist and the book in Japan by Roger S. Keyes Chris Uhlenbeck
Book review: Japanese Warríor Prints 1646-1905 by James King & Yuriko Iwakiri Johan Somerwil
84 November 2008 Exploring uncharted aspects of Utagawa Hiroshige: an annotated checklist of his surimono Robert Schaap and Dan McKee
When two Utagawa masters get together. The artistic relationship between Hiroshige and Kunisada Andreas Marks
Mitate kokkei Chūshingura. Hiroshige's humorous parodies of the Loyal Retainers Pierre Wijermans and Henk Herwig
Frank Lloyd Wright and the architectural implications of Hiroshige's pictorial space Kevin Nute
85 Spring 2009 The whole world in your hands: Ehon and the mirror of art Roger Keyes
'A prodigious correspondence'. The letters addressed to Heinz Kaempfer kept in the archive of the Society Max Put
Growing up under the scrutiny of a great Japanese Lady Raymond Kaempfer
In memoriam Heinz Kaempfer Gerhard Pulverer
The illustrated books of Kawamura Bunpō (1779 - 1821). Focussing on the Kaidō kyōka awase of 1812 Matthi Forrer
86 September 2009 Hamada Shōji, artist and artisan Robert B. Kleyn
Ceramics for the Japanese tea ceremony in the Rijksmuseum: the collection of Herman Karel Westendorp Menno Fitski
Namazu-e: catfish picture prints of 1855 Gregory Smits
Nihon no hanga, an exciting new private museum Eric van den Ing
Chinnen's Mount Fuji Victor M. Schmidt
In memoriam: Johan Somerwil (1926 - 2009) Menno Fitski
Book review: Literati Modern, Bunjinga from Late Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan: The Terry Welch Collection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts by Paul Berry and Michiyo Morioka Ed Freis
Book review: Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints, with a Catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection edited by John T. Carpenter with essays by John T. Carpenter, Alfred Haft, Nadin Hee, Iwata Hideyuki, Kobayashi Fumio, Daan Kok, Makino Satoshi, Daniel McKee, Joan B. Mirviss, Hans Bjarne Thomsen, and Tsuda Mayumi Sebastian Izzard
Errata - Bibliography Hiroshige surimono
87 December 2009 Japan Tattoo
Notes to the catalogue
Japan tattoo, a brief history of its origins and development Willem van Gulik
Kuniyoshi's tattooed heroes of the Suikoden. Righteous rebels from China in Japanese prints Inge Klompmakers
The beauty of cruelty. The origins of Danshichi and his evolution as a tattooed anti-hero in Natsu matsuri John Fiorillo
Japanese tattooing today Mark Poysden
Catalogue
Artists, authors and actors
88 July 2010 When the namazu shakes its body. Japanese catfish prints published after the Ansei earthquake in 1855 Albrecht & Gisela Rabitz
Nashitsubo no gokasen - Five immortal poetesses of the Pear Chamber. A series of surimono by Katsushika Hokusai Helena Capková
The FC-monogram box. A masterpiece of japanese export lacquer Jan Dees
In memoriam Helen Meritt (1920 - 2009) Helen M Nagata
Book review: Taishō Kimono: Speaking of Past and Present by Jan Dees with photographs by Michiel Elsevier Stokmans Anna Beerens
Book review: Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floatíng World, 1690-1850 edited by Anne Nishimura Morse Julie Nelson Davis
89 December 2010 In the shadow of another. Introducing the 'Meiji no Edokko' Baidō Hōsai Amy Reigle Newland
Tsuchiya Kōitsu (1870 - 1949). An artist's journey Ross F. Walker and Toshikazu Doi
Actor surimono by Hiroshige. Kyōka circles and the patronage of poetry prints John T. Carpenter
Thinking back to the time of master Sleepyhead: portraits of kyōka poets Daan Kok
Book review: Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School by Laura J. Mueller Andreas Marks
Erratum Andreas Marks
90 June 2011 Poetry and parody in Suzuki Harunobu's Eight Fashionable Parlor Views Ishigami Aki
A craze for auctions. Japanese art on sale in the 19th century Paris Manuela Moscatiello
Moving day: the intersection of art and history. A magnificent triple triptych recording emperor Meiji's move from Kyoto to Edo Sheldon Siegel
The Wrangham sale - part one. Renewed interest in inrō and lacquer? Jan Dees
In memory of Suzuki Jūzō (1919-2010) Roger Keyes
Book review: Portraits of Chōgen: The Transformation of Buddhist Art in Early Medieval Japan by John M. Rosenfield Menno Fitski
91 December 2011 An inrō by Koma Koryū presented in 1794 to Empress Catharina the Great of Russia Else and Heinz Kress
Publishers of Tsuchiya Kōitsu works Ross F. Walker and Toshikazu Doi
Moriya Shōtei's 'Pea plant box'. Designed after a VOC-imported book mirror? Jan Dees
Japan 1905 - 1931: Years of irony and paradox Anna Beerens
Kōgyo in his own words: 'Nō and Nō pictures' Tsukioka Kōgyo
Shokoku meisho. An unrecorded late Hiroshige I landscape series? Evelyn Lachner
Book review: Japanese prints: Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900 by Ellis Tinios Annn Beerens
Rectification Sheldon Siegel
92 June 2012 Tōshūsai Sharaku, the man, his works and Tsutaya Jūsaburō Matthi Forrer
A broader view: The rise of the ukiyo-e triptych David Pollack
The coming-out of a manju netsuke Ton & Mies Becker
Zuihitsu: Beautiful blackened smiles Gina Collia-Suzuki
Architecture in the Taishō period (1912 - 1926) Dave van Eijnsbergen
Book review: Yoshitoshi - Masterpieces from the Ed Freis collection by Chris Uhlenbeck and Amy Reigle Newland John Stevenson
Book review: Fiori d'Oriente, arte e poesia: metafore e simboli nella cultura artistica e letteraria del Giappon by Donatella Failla, with contributions by Enrico Franceschi, Federico Locardi and Huang Min Victor M. Schmidt
Book review: Behind Paper Walls: Early Works and Portraits by Jun'ichiro Sekino by Bill and Roberta Stein, Elias Martin and Yowsaku Sekino Maureen de Vries
Book review: One hundred years of beatitude, catalogue by Paul Moss and photography by Ken Adlard Henk C. Hoogsteden
93 December 2012 Novel images: kuchi-e from the Clough collection at the National Library of Australia Gary Hickey and Amy Reigle Newland
Senshafuda - a living woodblock tradition. The evolution of votive prayer slips to exchange cards Rebecca Salter and Toshikazu Doi
A 'Luis' mark in Namban-style lacquer Yayoi Kawamura
The Wrangham sale part two and part three. Renewed interest in inrō persists Jan Dees
Zuihitsu: History to get your teeth into Gina Collia-Suzuki
Book review: Splendid impressions: Japanese secular painting 1400-1900 in the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne edited by Doris Croissant, with forward by Adele Schlombs and contributions by Yukio Lippit, Melissa McCormick, Matthew P. McKelway, Joshua S. Mostow and Melanie Trede Victor M. Schmidt
Book review: Warten auf das Neujahrslicht: Japanische Grußblätter (Surimono) aus dem Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Waiting for the Sunrise on New Year's Day: Japanese Congratulatory Greetings (Surimono) from the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg edited by Ursula Lienert, with Hannelore Dreves and Mizuki Wildenhahn Susanne Schäffler-Gerken
94 June 2013 Introduction Jan Dees
Twenty lacquer objects 1927-1934 Jan Dees
The first eight years: modernity established Jan Dees
Twenty lacquer objects 1936-1944 Jan Dees
The celebration of modernity Jan Dees
Acknowledgements and notes Jan Dees
Appendix I: Note on white pigments and coloured lacquers
Appendix II: Survey of exhibitions Jan Dees
Glossary of lacquering techniques Jan Dees
95 December 2013 Nobori: witnesses of a forgotten world. The banners of Kitamura Yoshichika
The new guardians of the Rijksmuseum Menno Fitski
Zeshin's "Crows in flight at sunsine'. The anatomy of a print Robert Schaap
Introducing the Japanese sword Colin M. Roach
Two versions of Takahashi Shōtei's 'Starry night' Gisela & Albrecht Rabitz
Ōnamuchi no mikoto. A lost legend Ton & Mies Becker
Zuihitsu: Cast shadows Victor M. Schmidt
Book review: 101 netsuke: Japanse gordelknoop miniaturen uit de Schattenstolp (Japanese toggles from the Treasure Farm) by Ton and Mies Becker Daan Kok
Book review: Netsuke: Dutchmen in miniature from the Coen Hille collection by Chris Uhlenbeck and Teatske Kramer Ewa Machotka
96 May 2014 Koban nishiki-e: Rare small-format colour prints from Osaka John Fiorillo and Peter Ujlaki
Surprise comparisons in Kunisada's print series Mitate sanjūrokkusen Henk Herwig, Jos Vos, and Paul Griffith
Edo Kabuki and money Tove Björk
Book Review: Erotic Japonisme: The influence of Japanese sexual imagery on Western Art by Richard Bru Max Put
The Wrangham sale: Confusion and disappointment - part three (continued) and part four Jan Dees
97 September 2014 The 'Greater Taishō' era: a boiling cultural stew Hollis Goodall
Modernity and the past: 'period drama' in Taishō cinema Ivo Smits
Who is Kishida Ryūsei? A case study of a Taishō-era yōga painter Kuraya Mika
Shin hanga in America, 1923-1930: Yoshida Hiroshi's journey from painter to printmaker Kendall H. Brown
Eclecticism as a mode of transformation in Taishō nihonga: an interpictorial approach to period style Paul Berry
Shin hanga and nihonga in Berlin, 1929-1932: donations and exhibitions Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz
For girls and wives: narrating 'tradition' and 'modernity' through gendered publications of the Taishō era Ewa Machotka
Fashioning the 'Greater Taishō' era Anna Jackson
New colours, a new profession & a new idea: zuan enrich Kyoto design books Scott Johnson
98 December 2014 Carving out a niche. Sösaku hanga and the 20th-century Japanese prints art Eric van den Ing
Beauties and beyond: situating Takehisa Yumeji and the Yumeji-shiki Nozomi Naoi
Takehisa Yumeji's designs for music score covers Sabine Schenk
An album of Osaka actor prints Hendrick Lühl
The Japanese collection at the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath Nicole T.C. Chiang
Book review: Kabuki, Japanese theatre prints by Rosina Buckland Robert Schaap
99 April 2015 Intertwined characters. Parody images in Edo visual culture Ryoko Matsuba
Travelling as inspiration. The life and work of Fukui Kötei (1866 - 1937) Sonja Simonis
Stories from Mount Fuji. Five prints from the Dorhout Collection in the Rijksmuseum Marije Jansen
Naturalism in Meiji-period ceramics. "Basin with a crab" by Miyagawa Közan I (1842 - 1916) Shinya Maezaki
The Swinging Dutchman. An exceptional tobacco set attributed to Hasegawa Ikko Jan Dees
Dutch coins used in netsuke Dieuwke Eijer
Zuihitsu - Shells in prints Victor M. Schmidt
Őkyo's Skeleton not performed zazen. Reflections on the iconography of the Daijöji's kyakuden Beatrice B. Shoemaker
100 December 2015 Zuan pattern books. The glory years Scott Johnson
History of the Bulletin and Andon Arendie Herwig-Kempers
Imaging Andon. A conversation with graphic designer Robert Schaap Inge Klompmakers (edited by Anna Beerens)
101 April 2016 Unknown Japanese paintings in Scotland Rosina Buckland
Taira no Koremochi. A parody of a famous legend hidden in a 19th-century netsuke Ton & Mies Becker
Book review: Kimono. A modern history by Terry Satsuki Milhaupt Anna Beerens
Traces of Ink. The Collection of Modern Japanese Calligraphy at the National Gallery in Prague Markéta Hánová
What's Happening and What's New? (a)
Book review: Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints edited by Kendall H. Brown Marije Jansen
The Wrangham sale, part five and part six Jan Dees
What's Happening and What's New? (b)
A collector's life. Hendrick Lühl's passion for Osaka prints Arendie Herwig-Kempers and Henk Herwig
Frederick Stibbert, the man, his museum and his collection of Japanese arms, armour and art Francesco Civita
102 October 2016 On the mandalisation of space: a study of the Daijōji's kyakuden (part 1) Beatrice B. Shoemaker
What's Happening and What's New? (a)
Zuihitsu: Rain Victor M. Schmidt
Satō Hodai's Haiku surimono. Images of the people of nineteenth-century Osaka Scott Johnson
What's Happening and What's New? (b)
Book review: Waves of renewal - modern prints, 1900 to 1960 by Chris Uhlenbeck, Amy Reigle Newland and Maureen de Vries; Japan modern by Marije Jansen Eric van den Ing
Zeshin's Shijō surimono and his later shikishiban prints Robert Schaap
Printing rhythm and sound. Hanga and music in Onchi Kōshirō's Lyrique No. 2 John Fiorillo
Book review: A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography by Luke Gartlan Herman J. Moeshart
103 April 2017 Classical court poetry as didactic entertainment: Utagawa Kuniyoshi's Hyakunin isshu no uchi Frank Witkam
A pair of Kakiemon bijin at the Princessehof Eline van den Berg
Mameban nishiki-e. Diminutive colour prints from Kamigata Peter Ujlaki and John Fiorillo
What's Happening and What's New?
Zuihitsu: 'Otherness'? Victor M. Schmidt
The woodblock print series of Keisai Eisen (1790 - 1848) Glenn Van den Bosch
Book review: A third gender - Beatiful youths in Japanese Edo-period prints by Joshua Mostow, Asato Ikeda and Ryoko Matsuba C. Andrew Gerstle
On the mandalisation of space: a study of the Daijōji's kyakuden (part 2) Beatrice B. Shoemaker
104 November 2017 The Joe Hloucha Collection of woodblock prints in the National Gallery in Praque Jana Ryndová
What's Happening & What's New
Remorseless: Edward Sylvester Morse and changing tastes in Japanese ceramics Beatrice B. Shoemaker
Zuihitsu. New Year rituals in surimono Marije Jansen
Contemporary art in machiya Lisanne Kleinjan
Book review: Conflicts of Interest - Art and War in Modern Japan by Philip Hu et al. Larisa Alwin
Exhibition review: Super ukiyo-e: The Edo code. Kayabacho Ichome, Tokyo, January 28 - May 21, 2017 Marije Jansen
The art of Sekino Jun'ichirō: Expressive realism and geometric formalism John Fiorillo
105 April 2018 Utagawa Kunisada and the 'Copy & Paste' tradition Robert Schaap
News & Comments
Talking Pictures. Actor, script and performance in 19th-century Kabuki prints Paul M. Griffith
Zuihitsu Beatrice B. Shoemaker
Kagekiyo in Miya. A multi-layered Tōkaidō puzzle print by Kunisada Henk Herwig
Book review: Domon Ken - The Master of Japanese Realism by Rossella Menegazzo et al. Annemarie Zethof
Eisen's serial graphics checklist. A selection of over one hundred and fifty series
106 December 2018 Looking for foxes in Yoshino. Tanizaki Junichirō's visions of the Kansai past Jos Vos
The elusive Wasōbei Dieuwke Eijer
Book review: Contemporary Japanese Architects: Profiles in Design by Igarashi Tarō (translated by David Noble) Max Put
Islands of the imagination: Hokusai's Eight views of Ryūkyū Travis Seifman
Through the photographic lens: Japanese photographers visualising the triple disaster Philo Ouweleen
Zuihitsu: Hollandaiserie Victor Schmidt
What's Happening & What's New
One hundred laughs? Kiyochika's Nihon banzai: hyakusen hyakushō Larisa Alwin
About 'Ōhashi': New perspectives and how I proved my theory wrong Marije Jansen
107 April 2019 Scholar's Utopia: Rethinking the display for sencha in the late Edo period Ai Fukunaga
News & Comments
Transgender bodies in The funeral parade of roses Asa Splinter
Book review: ROSETSU - Ferocious brush by Matthew McKelway and Khanh Trinh Doreen Mueller
Suidoken revisited: The circulation and impact of Chinese editions in later Edo Japan (c. 1775 - 1868) Frank Witkam
Tea and immortality: The splendid reclusion of Ikeda Harumasa Beatrice B. Shoemaker
The development of Eisen's bijin-ga style in relation to the Utagawa actor-likeness prints Sawako Takemura Chang
Zuihitsu; Sasabeni lips Marije Jansen
108 December 2019 Performing female roles of the Floating World in Utamaro's Negai no itoguchi Manuela Coldesina and Giulia Baquè
Depicting No theatre: A brief history of Meiji No and Tsukioka Kōgyo's No aesthetics Tina Dermois
What's Happening & What's New
Ten years of Nihon no hanga: An interview with Elise Wessels Marije Jansen
Book review: Miyazakiworld: A life in art by Susan Napier Philo Ouweleen
Zuihitsu: Lost in Translation Beatrice B. Shoemaker
Collecting and using Things Chinese in Medieval Japan: Archaistic bronze flower vases in the Chiossone Museum Donatella Failla
109 June 2020 Positive perceptions of Tokugawa rule in Meiji prints Jim Dwinger
Japan-o-mania and the legacy of Henry Cole Rosemary Bandini
What's Happening & What's New
Saigyō and his poems in ukiyo-e and early-modern popular culture Joshua S. Mostow
Book review: Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism by Erin Schoneveld Doreen Mueller
Reflections of reality: Scenic 19th-century views of Nikkō Frank Witkam
Zuihitsu: Images and likeness: Some portraits of Baisaō Victor M. Schmidt
Kiyochika's war triptychs, fact or fantasy? Larisa Alwin
110 December 2020 The Great Wave: How to Identify Reproductions Capucine Korenberg
A Brief Note on Shikake-e Woodblock Prints Oikawa Shigeru
Celebrating the Good Life of the People of Japan: Yamaguchi Soken’s Yamato jinbutsu gafu Ellis Tinios
Japanese Woodblock-Printed Dioramas Tony Cole, Robert Tauxe and Ann Herring
Hayami Sōtatsu, Hayami-ryū and the Subtle Power of Tea Beatrice B. Shoemaker
The Osaka Actor Ichikawa Gyokuen: A Small-Time Player Has His Moment in the Spotlight John Fiorillo
Book review: Breaking Out of Tradition: Japanese Lacquer, 1890–1950 by Jan Dees Julia Hutt
111 June 2021 Albert Brockhaus (1855 - 1921) - Acquiring netsuke throughout Europe Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz
The Paradox of the 'Horror Comic': Conveying Fear in the Manga of Itō Junji Michael Crandol
Roger Keyes, dear friend Israel Goldman
Gakutei's Fine Views of Mount Tenpō - Celebrating Osaka's Newest Tourist Attraction in 1834 Jack Quarrier
From Local to National. Crafting the Identity of bashōfu in Japanese Okinawa Francesco Montuori
Book Review: Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Women's Life in Nineteenth Century Japan by Amy Stanley Jim Dwinger
112 December 2021 The Poetry of Play: Hybridity in Amusements of the four seasons in Kyoto Pauline Ayumi Ota
The Japanese Print as a Lens to Understanding Wright's Organic Space: The Miegakure Effect Kenneth Dahlin
His Master's Voice: Echoes of Kuniyoshi in Yoshiiku's Imayo nazorae Genji André Kraayenga
An intriguing work of Japanese calligraphy from the former Felix Tikotin collection in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Hori Sakiko
Book Review: Sixty Years with Japanese Prints by George Mann John Fiorillo
113 July 2022 Dressing up actors with oshi-e -- Colour patchwork pictures in Osaka John Fiorillo
Zenga: Paintings of the Zen Mind from the Kaeru-An Collection Markéta Hánová
How to determine the production chronology of a Japanese woodblock print Capucine Korenberg
Book review: Patriotic Pedagogy: How Karuta Game Cards Taught a Japanese War Generation by Michaela Kelly Aafke van Ewijk
114 December 2022 Ōoka Shunboku: Osaka between China and Japan Beatrice B. Shoemaker
Magic and acrobatic tricks in misemono-e John Fiorillo
The structure and iconography of gigaku masks and implications for performance Stephen Marvin
Berend Modderman: A Benefactor of Japanese Art Sakiko Hori
Book Review: Kyosai: The Israel Goldman collection by Sadamura Koto Shigeru Oikawa
115 July 2023 The Kano School and the Longevity of its Brand San Chan
Memoirs from the Road: Yamanashi Shigako, Kii no Kuni meisho zue, and Women’s Pilgrimage to Mount Kōya Sara Atwood
Made to Deceive Three Lacquer Boxes by Sasaki Gakuto Jan Dees
Vermillion Designs: Seals as Textual Motifs in Ukiyo-e Prints by Utagawa Hiroshige Jim Dwinger
The Concept of Cultural Hybridity and its Application on Kengo Kuma’s Personhood and Architecture Killian van der Kraan
Book Review: Designing Modern Japan by Sarah Teasley Leah Crews
116 December 2023 The Benefits of Humanising Ghosts: The Demon Queller in the Popular Imagination in Early Modern China and Japan Fan Lin and Doreen Mueller
Clémence d'Ennery, her Museum and Japanese Objects Akimichi Kazuko
Kawanabe Kyōsai and Émile Guimet: Revisiting Guimet's Role as Kyōsai's Discoverer Freya Terryn
Book Review: Art Kimono: Aesthetic Revelations of Japan 1905 - 1960 by Roger Yorke, with a foreward by Kendall H. Brown Rhiannon Paget
117 Summer 2024 The Plum Blossom Valley at Tsukigase Yurika Wakamatsu
Rare Appearances: Bunraku Puppets in Osaka Prints John Fiorillo
Interpretations of Late Edo Prints on the Theme of Oiwa Wojtek Doria Dernalowicz
118 November 2024 A Novelist's Research into Ōi Katherine Govier
Generational Trauma: The Evolution of an Utagawa Canine Motif over the course of the Nineteenth Century Kit Brooks
A Silent Gaze: Visual Representations of Goze in Woodblock Prints Saskia Goldschmid
Book Review: Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750-1900 by Akiko Yano Leah Crews