bijutsukai BOOK It was during the Edo

It was during the Edo period that origata became popular among the common people

The front and back coversPeeling off from the textThe book being exhibited at this exhibition has the black cloth used for the cover peeled off

For Masago Sato

so no two books are the same

bijutsukai BOOK It was during the EdoThe time is the night before 1900. Neither Art Nouveau nor Deco The stirrings of Japanese design. Today, book hunter Sato Masago sent me a book of craft designs from the Meiji period called "Bijutsu Kai." This beautiful multicolored woodblock print is a set of five monthly magazines published by Yamada Geisoudo. The original editions were published around 1916 1918, but as the original editions do not include a table of contents or other text, it is