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NewSaul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective (Japanese edition)

Saul Leiter, Margit Erb, and Michael Parillo

NewSetsuko Oba Paintings: Beyond the Dream, Imagined Will Soon Shine

Setsuko Oba

NewTakeuchi Seiho: A Destructive and Creative Force

Takeuchi Seiho

design, crafts, architecture

NewThermae: Ancient Rome, Japan, and the Joy of Bathing

Masanori Aoyagi and Kyoko Haga

Love Hotels / Museums of Erotica (two-volume boxed set)

Kyoichi Tsuzuki

Love Hotels

Kyoichi Tsuzuki

Museums of Erotica

Kyoichi Tsuzuki

The Kingdom of Green

Yasutomo Ebisu and Rumiko Suzuki

News

2023.10.17New

2024 catalog

2023.10.17New

FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE 2023 – Frankfurt Book Fair

2022.10.12

FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE 2022 – Frankfurt Book Fair

2022.01.27

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NewSaul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective (Japanese edition)

Saul Leiter, Margit Erb, and Michael Parillo

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NewSetsuko Oba Paintings: Beyond the Dream, Imagined Will Soon Shine

Setsuko Oba

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It's alreay the last day! From new releases to val

It's alreay the last day! From new releases to valuable old masters with limited stock. Don't miss out! 📚📚📚🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

#tokyoartbookfair2023
@tokyoartbookfair
@mot_museum_art_tokyo
Booth No. EN-065
Open until 7pm.

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📣 Attention, art book lovers in Tokyo! 📚📖

📣 Attention, art book lovers in Tokyo! 📚📖❤️

We are really excited to announce that we will participate in the Tokyo Art Book Fair @tokyoartbookfair again this year, starting tomorrow 23-26 Nov.

Please come by our booth at the main entrance and we are looking forward to welcoming you❣️

📅Dates: 12:00-20:00, November 23 (Thurs/National Holiday) 2023　　　
11:00-19:00, November 24 (Fri) – 26 (Sun), 2023
📍Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo @mot_museum_art_tokyo
📍Address: 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0022

Official website: https://tokyoartbookfair.com/
Admission: General 1,000 yen (tax-included)
Ticket sales: https://artsticker.page.link/TABF2023

#TABF #TOKYOARTBOOKFAIR
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💜🫣💋📚New Title! ‘Love Hotels / Museu

🚀🎨📚New Title! ‘Setsuko Oba Paintings:

🚀🎨📚New Title!

‘Setsuko Oba Paintings: Beyond the Dream, Imagined Will Soon Shine’

Records of one artist’s communion with an astonishingly pure world, rendered in colors and forms born of a finely honed sensibility.
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For years, Setsuko Oba based herself partly in Paris, traveling from there to nearby countries in order to portray the people and places she encountered in watercolors and sketches that she turned into oils in Tokyo for final presentation. The Covid pandemic did away with that back-and-forth routine, leaving her feeling hollow—though she was filled again with joy indeed when she was able to walk the streets of Paris once more.

This book is divided into two chapters each focusing on the years before and during/after Covid. Its pages trace the ever-so-delicate transformations in Oba’s emotions and art over that difficult time and, in the process, present a signature collection of works by a solitary genius who combines a natural poetic instinct with a richly philosophical intellect.

Roughly ninety selected oils, watercolors, and sketches produced between 2018 and 2022, along with brief statements by the artist
Essay by art critic Tsutomu Mizusawa
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Setsuko Oba was born in Wakayama Prefecture to a dealer of Japanese musical instruments and grew up surrounded by the koto, shamisen, and other implements of traditional Japanese culture. She enrolled in the distance-learning program of the Musashino Art University Junior College of Art and Design while working in a research laboratory at Kao Corporation. Today she pursues an active artistic career from her studios in Paris and Japan, showing her works mainly in solo exhibitions.
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Author: Setsuko Oba
Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 295 × 225 × 11 mm
Pages: 156
Binding: softcover
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#SetsukoOba #BeyondTheDreamImaginedWillSoonShine #painting
#大場節子 #大場節子画集 #夢のかなたに眠るものたちよ
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🚀♨️🛁📚New Title! ‘Thermae: Ancient

🚀♨️🛁📚New Title!

‘Thermae: Ancient Rome, Japan, and the Joy of Bathing’

From emperors to samurai warlords to Tokyoites—a love of bathing spanning oceans and time, from ancient Rome to Japan.
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Mari Yamazaki’s wildly popular manga series ‘Thermae Romae’—about an architect of public baths (“thermae”) in ancient Rome who time-travels to modern-day Japan—portrays the mutual passion for bathing that connects those two seemingly disparate societies. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art and other venues further explores that connection, revealing how the human pursuit of pleasure merged bathing with entertainment and, ultimately, transformed it into a cultural tradition.

The book starts with ancient Roman bathing, examining its origins, the architecture and technology that allowed it to prosper, and the art that adorned public bathhouses, before moving on to describe the history of Japan’s own bathing culture from the earliest times through the present. Richly illustrated with close to 170 artworks, artifacts, and historical sources, the pages offer a unique journey through time and across cultures.
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Authors: Masanori Aoyagi (Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Director of Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art) and Kyoko Haga (Professor of the University of Tokyo)
Languages: Japanese
Size: 257 × 188 × 17 mm
Pages: 192
Binding: softcover
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Exhibition Information✍️
‘Thermae: Ancient Rome, Japan, and the Joy of Bathing’ will be open this weekend at the Oita Prefectural Art Museum @opamjp in Oita Prefecture, one of the best onsen towns in Japan.♨️

📅Date: November 25, 2023－January 21, 2024 (Closed on December 19, 2023)
⏱Opening hours: 10:00-19:00 (Admission until 18:30 / open untill 20:00 on Friday and Saturday)

#Thermae #JoyOfBathing #テルマエ #温泉 #お風呂 #山梨県立美術館 #大分県立美術館 #OPAM
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🚀📚New Title! ‘Takeuchi Seiho: A Destructi

🚀📚New Title!

‘Takeuchi Seiho: A Destructive and Creative Force’
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The definitive guide to the life and major works of Takeuchi Seiho, a celebrated master of the Kyoto art world.
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Takeuchi Seiho (1864–1942) focused on sketching from life, rendering “nihonga” (Japanese-style paintings) of such extraordinary power that he was said to “breathe life into all things.” In his thirties he traveled to Europe in search of new forms of expression, while in his middle to late years he trained many new artists even as he himself remained active at the forefront of his field. How, over this career, did he work to destroy old norms and create new horizons for “nihonga”? This collection answers that question through a look back at some 130 major paintings from his early to mature years—including “Posing for the First Time” (Important Cultural Property)—supplemented by numerous studies, sketches, copies of old artworks, and other materials as well as helpful and informative text.
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Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 256 × 190 × 26 mm, 780 g
Pages: 232
Binding: softcover
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Exhibition Information✍️
‘Takeuchi Seiho: A Destructive and Creative Force’ is now on view at the Kyoto City Museum of Art through 3rd December 2023.
Closed on Mondays
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00 (last entry 17:30)

#seihotakeuchi #竹内栖鳳 #破壊と創生のエネルギー #KyotoCityMuseumofArt #京都市美術館
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📸Finally, the japanese edition of 'Saul Leiter:

📸Finally, the japanese edition of 'Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective' has been published here in Japan! Celebrating this long-awaited new release, we would like to introduce all of the Saul Leiter’s books by Seigensha.

🆕🎉📸'Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective (Japanese edition)'

A must-have for photography enthusiasts: an official retrospective commemorating one hundred years since the birth of color-photography pioneer Saul Leiter.
One of eight international co-editions.

Language: Japanese
Size: 310 × 260 × 36 mm
Pages: 352
Binding: hardcover

*Available for purchase only within Japan.
*The first edition sold out already…🙏 Now accepting pre-orders for reprints to be released around March 2024.
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📸'The Unseen Saul Leiter (Japanese edition)'

Five years after the phenomenal success of ‘All about Saul Leiter’: a new collection of the defining aspect of Saul Leiter’s art—his street photography.

Language: Japanese
Size: 282 × 221 × 23 mm
Pages: 160
Binding: hardcover

*Available for purchase only within Japan.
*Now accepting pre-orders for reprints to be released around February 2024.
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📸'All about Saul Leiter'

An only-from-Japan exploration of the photographer’s art and philosophy.
This collection takes a Japanese perspective into the secrets of his appeal, from his life philosophy and lyricism to masterful colors and compositions reminiscent of ukiyo-e.

Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 210 × 148 × 28 mm
Pages: 312
Binding: softcover

For more details, please visit our website.

#saulleiter #thecentennialretrospective #unseensaulleither #allaboutsaulleiter #ソールライター
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📣📦📚📚🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️If you a

📣📦📚📚🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️If you are in Tokyo this weekend, it's a big chance to get good books at a good price!

The famous two-day Book Festival is starting at Kanda Jinbocho, the city known as Tokyo's center of used-book stores and publishing houses, and also the hometown of our Tokyo branch!

Seigensha's pop-up booth is located on the Suzuran street. Looking forward to welcoming you. Please come by!

The 31st Jinbocho Book Festival 2023
📅: 28 (sat) and 29 (sun) October 2023
🕐: 10am to 6pm
📍: Suzuran street, Kanda Jinbocho, Tokyo

#bookfestival #jinbocho #kanda #tokyo #神保町ブックフェスティバル
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📚👀Our books have won several international b

📚👀Our books have won several international book design awards. We are honored to be featured in the booth of “Best book design from all over the world” at Frankfurt Book Fair.
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‘Tendo in Japanese Modern’
Eight decades of masterful designs from leading Japanese furniture maker Tendo Mokko.

Edited by: Tendo Mokko
Language: Japanese
Size: 195 × 148 × 35 mm
Pages: 504
Binding: codex
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‘To Be Bewitched by a Fox (special edition)’
From her debut to a never-before-published new project, a chronicle of photographer Tomoko Sawada’s quarter-century-long artistic journey.

Author: Tomoko Sawada
Language: Japanese and English
Size: 153 × 100 × 105 mm
Pages: 1552
Binding: thread-sewn German case binding
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We also found one of the most popular Japanese comics, 'Attack on Titan'ーsuper big size!!!!ーat the same corner. Woah!!!
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This week, we are at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023!
📅18-22 Oct 2023
📍Messe Frankfurt @buchmesse
👉Find us in Hall 3.1, stand H138❣

#bookdesign #fbm23 #buchmesse #frankfurtbookfair #artbook #japan #kyoto #seigensha #seigenshaglobal #seigenshaartpublishing #青幻舎

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