Dates & Plates
Vol Date Plates Woodcuts Collotypes Folding Tissue
Color Guards*
1 1899 54 3 51 27
2 1899 50 5 45 39
3 1900 50 4 46 2 41
4 1900 50 4 46 1 35
5 1902 50 4 46 39
6 1902 50 5 45 40
7 1902 50 5 45 1 39
8 1902 50 5 45 37
9 1903 50 4 46 2 34
10 1903 50 5 45 35
11 1905 50 5 45 36
12 1906 50 5 45 37
13 1906 49 4 45 2 40
14 1907 48 3 45 36
15 1907 48 8 40 41
16 1907 47 4 43 39
17 1907 48 5 43 44
18 1907 47 4 43 36
19 1908 47 3 44 37
20 1908 49 3 46 43
Totals 987 88 899 8 755
* Descriptive Tissue Guards. Many tissue guards provide information
on more than one plate.
Summary of All Pages
Title Page - 1 per volume (20)
40 Contents Pages (Japanese and English) 20 x 2
755 Descriptive Tissue Guards - conservative total actually slightly more
88 Color Woodblock Plates
899 Black and White Collotypes
1782 Total Pages (not counting title pages)
Collotypes by K. Ogawa (Volumes 1~6)
279 Black and White Collotypes
Addresses
- Vol 1~3 - Nippon Shimbi Kyokwai, Zenkyoan, Kenninji, Shimokyoku, Kyoto, Japan
- Vol 4~5 - Nippon Bukkyo Shimbi Kyokwai, Zenkyoan, Kenninji, Shimokyoku, Kyoto, Japan
- Vol 6~10 - Nippon Shimbi Kyokwai, Zenkyoan, Kenninji, Shimokyoku, Kyoto, Japan
- Vol 11 - Nippon Shimbi Kyokwai, 52 Nichomachi, Setaya-ku, Tokyo
- Vol 12~20 - Nippon Shimbi Kyokwai - The Shimbi Shoin, 13 Shinsakanacho, Kyobashiku, Tokyo, Japan
Photograph/Collotype Credits
- Vol 1~6 Photographed and Collotyped by K. Ogawa
- Vol 7~10 Photographed and Collotyped by the Kwansai Photograph(ic) Company, Kobe
- Vol 11 Photographed and Colour-Printed by the Shimbi Shoin, Tokyo
- Vol 12 Colour-printed by the Shimbi Shoin, Tokyo
- Vol 13~20 No collotype or color print credits
Vol 1~20 Printed at the Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry
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Index for Selected Relics of Japanese Art, 20 Volume Set
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Available, Purchase Here
Shiiji Tajima (Editor)
Ogawa, K:
Selected Relics of Japanese Art, (20 Volume Set) Nippon Shimbi Kyokwai - Zenkyoan, Kenninji, Shimokyoku - (The Shimbi Shoin), Kyoto/Tokyo, 1899~1908, folio (19 x 13 in - 49 x 34 cm), 20 volumes, double folded leaves (collotypes), bound Japanese style, decorated stiff paper wraps, purple silk threads, two edges gilt (top & bottom), 987 plates (899 black and white collotypes (8 foldout) and 88 color woodcuts), approximately 1782+ pages in total. There is a two page English introduction by Ernest F. Fenollosa in Volume 1. The non-foldout collotype plates are on thin wove rice type paper which is folded over a sheet of thicker backing paper. The foldout collotype plates are on thick paper. Woodcut plates are on thick paper. Each plate (or unit of plates when similar plates were grouped together by the editor) is protected by a tissue guard with text in English and Japanese which describes the art and artist and the source/location of the relic. The art in the first 6 volumes was photographed and collotyped by K. Ogawa (279 plates). Volumes 1-19 were printed at the Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry. Each paper wraps volume came with a protective mat finish folding slipcase (grass or grass like covering) with ivory clasps.
The series presents reproductions of Japanese art relics from the earliest times up to the end of the Tokugawa Era from collections in Buddhist Temples in Nara and Kyoto and held in private hands. The entire series was published over the 10 year period from 1898~1908. According to the Wenckstern bibliography of the Japanese Empire (Volume II), the entire set of 20 volumes was anticipated to sell for Y390 in the regular edition format. An edition with silk covers was said to be sold for Y490. This was a very expensive set, even when newly issued. According to my calculations the set would have cost the equivalent of $3,402 in 2004 dollars. To see how I came up with this rather remarkable figure, click here. Wenckstern also contains a comprehensive index (15 pages) of the first 10 volumes of the set.
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