index

EACH MONTH WE ADD MARKERS TO

INDICATE RECENT ADDITIONS OF BOTH TEXT AND/OR IMAGERY

CLICK ON THOSE MARKERS BELOW TO GO TO OUR NEW

"LINKS TO REVISED AND UPDATED PAGES".

THAT PAGE WILL HAVE LINKS TO SPECIFIC PAGES.

THE BIRD ON THE WALNUT SHELL

WILL BE THE MARKER FOR ADDITIONS

MADE IN JULY 2008

On 7/3/08 we trimmed down the size of many of the jpegs on our second page devoted to items which we have already sold.

This should allow many of you to load that page much more quickly.

We'll keep working on it, too.

On 7/3/08 we made more changes to our second list of thumbnails of prints currently for sale.

Like the publishers page linked below you won't notice any significant differences,

but by streamlining it it should load considerably faster.

On 7/2/08 we made changes to our N to Z publishers page to make it load more quickly.

You won't notice any other changes to that page except the prints shown are somewhat larger.

Today, 6/30/08, we started a quest to unlock some of the secrets of who the most famous carvers were, when they worked, who they worked for and who they worked with.

We started with the carver Hori Chō. What paltry information we found can be found on our Hil thru I index/glossary page.

We noted this also on our Etsu Ka and Eikyudo entries, on our A thru G publishers page.

And the same for Tsunoi on our N thru Z page.

And Izutsu-ya Sanemon on our H thru J page.

On 6/29/08 we made some minor corrections - and we do mean minor -

to a page devoted to a Kuniyoshi print we have already sold.

However, one of the corrections was egregious and

we are sorry we hadn't taken care of it before now.

On 6/29/08 we posted a notice about something which our visitors already knew:

There will be no more additions to our 2nd Bad Boys and Their Tattoos page.

Sorry for being such a slacker in getting this stated clearly and definitively.

My bad!

On 6/29/08 we added a few notes on the nature of the hōmyō or posthumous Buddhist name given right after death -

along with a few other bits of similar information. This can be found on our Hil thru I index/glossary page.

GALLERY THUMBNAIL PAGES OF PRINTS FOR SALE
T1	TOYOKUNI I (5), KUNISADA II, KUNITSUNA, SADAHIDE, SADAKAGE, TOYOKUNI II
T2	EISEN (2), GENGYO (2), SHUNTEI (2)
T3 ALL OSAKA PRINTS	ASHIYUKI, HIRONOBU, HIROSADA, YOSHIKUNI, YOSHITAKI
T4	ANONYMOUS MEIJI, KUNICHIKA (2), NOBUKAZU, YOSHIKAZU
T5 (diptych)	KUNIHIRO
T6 (vertical diptychs)	TOYOKUNI III
T7 (triptychs)	KUNICHIKA (2)
T8	ONLY ONE YOSHIIKU
T9	ALL YOSHITOSHI
T10	ALL KUNIYOSHI ONE ON HOLD! ONE SOLD!
T11	ALL KUNISADA These prints include only those printed before ca. 1842-44 and signed Kunisada. See our Toyokuni III page for other examples by this artist.
T12 ALL 20TH CENTURY	KOKEI, KOSON, YOSHIDA
T13	ALL TOYOKUNI III

	WOW!
	I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS for a book like this. It tells me more in English in one small volume than I can find in an entire library. Even a major library. More even than on the Internet! And that is no mean trick. On June 16th I received a copy in the mail. Opened it immediately and learned things I never knew. Things I had researched for years, but still couldn't figure out. It is written with verve, wit and, dare I say, scholarly diligence. Just my kind of book. It can be read and enjoyed by both young and old alike for fun and more. * DON'T PASS THIS ONE UP! GET YOUR OWN PERSONAL COPY NOW * WE ARE NOT OFFERING COPIES FOR SALE. WE ARE JUST PROMOTING IT. * For more information go directly to the authors' blog: http://altjapan.typepad.com/ * WARNING: If horripilation lasts longer than four hours consult a shaman or priest immediately or put the damned book down.

	This volume will not be available in the U.S. until just before Halloween, natch. So, until then, for those of you who can't wait and shouldn't really it's available through import shops like Kinokuniya or amazon.co.jp right now.