Tokio Miyashita 1996 Limited Edition Book with Print Portfolio
$325.00
Rare and complete book and portfolio with text and loose prints by famous late Japanese print maker Tokio Miyashita 宮下登喜雄 (1930-2011). Text is in Japanese.
Title: Inu to kurashita jūninen: aiken Jun no shogai [犬と暮した十二年 : 愛犬ジュンの生涯 ] (Twelve Years of Living with a Dog: The Life of Beloved Dog June)
Publisher: Gohachi Shobō (吾八書房)
Year: 1996
Edition: 136/170
Number of prints: 6 (plus woodblock printed title slip)
Technique: 2 woodblock prints, 3 etchings, one combination woodblock and etching
Number of pages: 64
Book comes in original cardstock sleeve.
A copy of this portfolio is in the National Diet Library, Tokyo.
Condition: discoloration and abrasions on sleeve; minor shelf wear, discoloration on fly leafs and adjoining pages. Imperfections in paper.
Tokio Miyashita was an avid illustrator of limited edition books, most of them printed in editions of a few dozen copies, up to 200 copies. The book chronicles Miyashita’s beloved dog June-Aphrodite (1983-1995), an Old English Sheep Dog, who was frequent model in his prints.
