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Japanese Traditional art book

jackundai

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I have tried translating it online but I think I need a native Japanese speaker!
Any help at all would be very much appreciated. You may have to tilt your head!

Many thanks!

Jack

Three pics of the inside cover:





 
Printed December 5, 1906 (from the third image). The other two don't really show anything particularly interesting.

When photographing things like that:

1. Have the camera parallel to the page. That will help to keep more of the image in focus.

2. Have ample light. A couple of desk lamps on opposite sides will work well. The closer you have a single light to what you're shooting, the darker some of it will be (due to the inverse square law). If you only have one light, a really bright one farther away is better than a less bright one really close.

What sort of information about the book were you hoping to get?
 
Hi Thanks for responding I got this book and I thought it was amazing it's full of prints of black and white ink drawings of Dragons etc.
I just wanted to know the title and what it was about etc.
I will take better pictures when I can tomorrow morning
 
For Your Infomation;

Issuer and Editor
Tokyo commoner Murayama Shungo
Yazaemon-cho 10, Kyobashi Ward, Tokyo

Publisher
Nomura Sojuro
Tsukiji 3-chome 11, Kyobashi Ward, Tokyo

Photo Printing
Ogawa Kazuma
Hiyoshi-cho 13, Kyobashi Ward, Tokyo

Printing Company
Tokyo Tsukiji Typographical Manufacturing
Tsukiji 2-chome 17, Kyobashi Ward, Tokyo

Publishing Company
Yazaemon-cho 10, Kyobashi Ward, Tokyo
Kokka-sha
Tel: Shinbashi 2177

Printed on the 5th December, Meiji 39(= 1906)
Published on the 10th December, Meiji 39

(Probably these are not what you wanted to know, though. You should take a picture of the cover title, and not the inside ones.)
 
Title of the book is 葛飾北斎日新除魔帖.
Hokusai Katsushika (a famous Ukiyo-e artist during Edo era: 1760-1849) is said to draw a shishi (Japanese style lion) first thing in the morning when he was 84 years old (1842-1843), and this book should be a collection of those shishi he drew, consists of approx. 180 drawing of shishi and approx. 40 drawings of shishi-mai (a person dancing with the headdress looks like shishi).

Hokusai
Hokusai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shishimai (Japanese Lion dance)
Lion dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Thank you so much It is nice to know what I have.
Would Nisshin Jomajo be a fair description I think that means daily exorcisms
 
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