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SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue

Various Artists

$28.18

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The Japanese magazine SWITCH honors the 50th anniversary of Comme des Garcons with a special issue. The magazine celebrates CdG’s vision, achievements, heritage and lasting impact with a deep dive into its archives, including a long interview with founder Rei Kawakubo, features on ...

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Gate Hack Eden

$77.51

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Japanese photographer Osamu Kanemura presents a manifestation of his photographic practice with his publication "Gate Hack Eden," which is being published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Cave-Ayumi Gallery in Tokyo in September 2024. Consisting of four ...

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Mononoke Kyoto

Takashi MURAKAMI

$42.28

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"Mononoke Kyoto" is the official catalogue for Takashi Murakami's major solo exhibition at the Kyocera Museum of Art in Kyoto (February 3 - September 1, 2024). Takashi Murakami is a Japanese artist whose influence on the contemporary Japanese art scene cannot be over...

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Art for the First Time

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Brazilian-Japanese artist Oscar Oiwa presents an updated version of his picture book “Art at First Time”. Originally published in 1995, Oiwa’s book follows an inquisitive ten-year old boy and his pet dog as they explore answers to a simple question: what is art? Through cute and im...

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Psychedelic Death Pop

Keiichi TANAAMI

$21.14

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“Psychedelic Death Pop” is a large-format, 40-page strong collection of Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami’s recent visual works. Two large stickers form part of the book, which was published together with “Amulet of the Tapir” to accompany Tanaami’s 2017 exhibition at Nanzuka Gallery.

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Kentaro Kobuke

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This 2021 publication features 51 new works by London-based Japanese painter Kentaro Kobuke, created between 2016 and 2021. Kobuke demonstrates that his artistic expression has only deepened, despite (or perhaps because of) the impact of the corona pandemic. Utilizing fragmentary m...

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SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue (Special edition)

Various Artists

$70.46

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The Japanese magazine SWITCH honors the 50th anniversary of Comme des Garcons with a special issue. The magazine celebrates CdG’s vision, achievements, heritage and lasting impact with a deep dive into its archives, including a long interview with founder Rei Kawakubo, features on ...

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De-porned Again

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Japanese artist DokiDoki Club is back with a second series of “de-porned” images. With the power of imagination, a black marker, humor and a touch of shamelessness, DokiDoki Club transforms soft pornographic photographs into funny and slightly less pornographic artworks. Though und...

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Chroniques d'un Japon merveilleux

Akira YAMAGUCHI

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For about twenty years, Akira Yamaguchi has imposed a unique style of painting: a mixture of classicism and contemporary irreverence which make him one of the rare Japanese artists equally renowned inside and outside Japan. In his gigantic canvases with undeniable narrative power, ...

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Keiichi Tanaami: Adventures in Memory

Keiichi TANAAMI

$31.71

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Six decades of wild, dynamic images: a look into the fantastic mind of Keiichi Tanaami through more than 600 spectacular color plates. This catalog accompanies the major retrospective exhibition of Keiichi Tanaami's work, "Adventures in Memory," at the National Art C...

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HARUMI GALS (B)

Harumi YAMAGUCHI

$33.82

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“Harumi Gals” collects the iconic series of pin-up drawings created by Japanese artist Harumi Yamaguchi since the 1970s. The art became symbolic of changes of the role of the woman in Japanese society and enjoys high critical esteem, partly due to its nature as a pin-up series crea...

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White Album

Taizo KURODA, Seitaro KURODA

$211.38

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The “White Album” represents the only published collaboration between the late ceramic artist Taizo Kuroda and his brother, the painter Seitaro Kuroda. It consists of an original painting by Seitaro Kuroda, a magazine-book featuring texts and photographs about Seitaro’s paintings o...

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nobuya HOKI drawings

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Where Did Issey Come From? The Work of Issey Miyake

Kazuko KOIKE, Issey MIYAKE

$22.55

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HeHe Press’ “Where did Issey Come From?” explores the question asked in its title: how Japanese fashion design Issey Miyake arrived at his position as one of Japan’s dominant clothes designers of the past decades. The book features Kazuko Koike’s eight text chapters from German pub...

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HARUMI GALS (A)

Harumi YAMAGUCHI

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“Harumi Gals” collects the iconic series of pin-up drawings created by Japanese artist Harumi Yamaguchi since the 1970s. The art became symbolic of changes of the role of the woman in Japanese society and enjoys high critical esteem, partly due to its nature as a pin-up series crea...

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Real Estate Opportunities

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“Real Estate Opportunities” continues Japanese photographer Takashi Homma’s homage series to the influential American artist Ed Ruscha, following similar photobooks by Homma such as “Every Building on the Ginza Street”, “Royal Road Test”, “Babycakes”, and “Twenty-Six Gasoline Stati...

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Amulet of the Tapir

Keiichi TANAAMI

$211.38

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Keiichi Tanaami’s belief in the “book as artwork” idea is once again brilliantly expressed with “Amulet of the Tapir”, a 400-page strong collection of Tanaami’s graphic art. Psychedelia-inspired styles and comic elements feature heavily in Tanaami’s artworks, with human faces – oft...

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ANTICAMERA (OF THE EYE)

Hanako MURAKAMI

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The Big Picture Akira Yamaguchi

Akira YAMAGUCHI

$26.78

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A collection of exquisitely realized paintings, including examples of mixed-period ‘rakuchū rakugai-zu’ paintings of city scenes, and new works of ‘fusuma’ sliding door painting for Byōdōin Temple, ‘musha-e’ samurai fight scenes and various sketches. Long awaited, this is the first...

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Yoshitomo Nara：Self-selected Works―Paintings

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Yoshitomo Nara was born in1959, in Japan’s Aomori Prefecture. In 1987, he completed the master’s program at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. In1988,he taraveled to Germany and enrolled in Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,where he studied and received his Meisterschüler ...