1 SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue Various Artists $29.61 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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 ...
2 Gate Hack Eden Osamu KANEMURA $81.42 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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 ...
3 De-porned Again Dokidoki Club $16.28 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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...
4 Mononoke Kyoto Takashi MURAKAMI $44.41 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout "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...
5 The Beginning Place Yoshitomo NARA $25.91 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout Published on the occasion of Yoshitomo Nara’s major solo exhibition at the Aomori Museum of Art, “The Beginning Place” guides readers through the career of this exceptional Japanese artist. Beginning with one of Nara’s earliest oil paintings (discarded as ‘unwanted work’ and discov...
6 Psychedelic Death Pop Keiichi TANAAMI $22.21 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout “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.
7 Kentaro Kobuke Kentaro KOBUKE $37.01 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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...
8 Keiichi Tanaami: Adventures in Memory Keiichi TANAAMI $33.31 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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...
9 Pre-ordering Here and There Vol. 1 - Vol.13. 5 Various Artists $118.43 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout “Here and There Vol. 1 - Vol. 13.5" collects thirteen (and a half) volumes of the independent Japanese alternative culture magazine "Here and There" on over eight hundred pages. Founded in 2002 by editor Naoko Hayashi, "Here and There" explores life and rea...
10 Holy Cow Tomoo GOKITA Out of Stock This catalogue was published to accompany the March 2017 exhibition “Holy Cow” at Taka Ishii Gallery. The book reproduces Tomoo Gokita’s black-and-white gouache paintings featuring a variety of surreal, sometimes disturbing motifs and sizes. In addition to the works themselves, the...
11 Signed Art for the First Time Oscar OIWA $26.92 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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...
12 Where Did Issey Come From? The Work of Issey Miyake Kazuko KOIKE, Issey MIYAKE $23.69 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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...
13 Real Estate Opportunities Takashi HOMMA Out of Stock “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...
14 Amulet of the Tapir Keiichi TANAAMI $222.06 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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...
15 Art for the First Time Oscar OIWA $26.92 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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...
16 The Big Picture Akira Yamaguchi Akira YAMAGUCHI $28.13 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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...
18 SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue (Special edition) Various Artists $74.02 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout 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 ...
19 Atsushi Saga Atsushi SAGA $13.71 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout Art book featuring images of several of Japanese artist Atsushi Saga's works and exhibition views as well as two essays by Fumio Nanjo (director of the Mori Art Museum) and Eriko Kimura (curator of the Yokohama Museum of Art).
20 New Photographic Objects Daisuke YOKOTA, Hiroshi TAKIZAWA, Nerhol, Teppei SAKO, Takashi MAKINO $51.81 Add to Cart Item Added. Checkout This special catalogue, published to commemorate the eponymous exhibition at the Saitama Museum of Art, contains works by all five featured artists as well as a photographic record of the exhibition itself. Just like the exhibition itself, the “New Photographic Objects” catalogue e...
