Sado Traveler’s Journal

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Japanese Book with Color Woodblock Prints

and Engravings

Sado Traveler's Journal 佐渡紀行

by Miyashita Tokio, 1999

IHL Cat. #1511

About This Book

Miyashita's limited edition book, published in 1999, of essays and prints about Sado Island 佐渡島 in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Niigita Prefecture. Bound into the book are four multi-color prints, woodblocks and combinations of woodblock and intaglio techniques, and six copperplate engravings. The heavy-weight paper used in the book was made by Yamada Shōkai located in the Higashichichibu Washi Center, Higashichichibu. In 2014, along with the neighboring village of Ogawa, Higashichichibu received UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Status for keeping the ancient traditions of Japanese paper making alive and flourishing.

Shown below is an example of a small (1 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.) copperplate engraving of a lighthouse appearing on page 14 of the book and an example of a woodblock print picturing the "v" shaped excavation at the Sado Gold and Silver Mine.

Twelve sets of all ten prints, each signed and titled by Miyashita, were also issued and not bound into books. These twelve sets appear to have been sold in conjunction with the first 12 numbered editions of the bound book.

Listing of Books and Portfolios by Miyashita Published by Gohachi Shobō

This book is one of eight by Miyashita, as shown in the following table, published in conjunction with Gohachi Shobō, a publisher of folk art and fine art books founded in 1911, originally operating as an art shop, and with several interruptions, operating as a publisher until the end of 2003.

Note: For a detailed history of Gohachi see the post "A Collection of Korekushon" at https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/a-collection-of-korekushon/

source: Webcat plus http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/webcatplus/details/creator/45207.html; all translations are my own and subject to error

飛行機雲 : 版画と散文詩

Hikōkigumo: Hanga to sanbunshi

Contrail: Prints and Prose Poetry

宮下登喜雄版画・文

Tokio Miyashita prints・text

吾八書房

Gohachi Shobō

2000.11

佐渡紀行

Sado Kikō

Sado Traveler’s Journal

宮下登喜雄版画・文

Tokio Miyashita prints・text

吾八書房

Gohachi Shobō

1999.10

都会の憂愁 : 版画と随想

Tokai no yūshū: Hanga to zuisō

Melancholy of the City: Prints and Essays

宮下登喜雄版画・文

Tokio Miyashita prints・text

吾八書房

Gohachi Shobō

1998.11

犬と暮した十二年 : 愛犬ジュンの生涯

Inu to kurashita jūninen : Aiken jun no shōgai

Twelve Years Living with a Dog : The Life of My Dog Jun

宮下登喜雄文・版画

Tokio Miyashita text・prints

吾八書房

Gohachi Shobō

1996.6

マンハッタンあちらこちら

Manhattan achira kochira

Manhattan Here and There

宮下登喜雄版画・文

Tokio Miyashita prints・text

吾八書房

Gohachi Shobō

1995.5

江戸・東京川と暮し

Edo Tōkyō kawa to kurashi

Edo and Tokyo River and Life

宮下登喜雄文・銅版画

Tokio Miyashita text・etchings

吾八書房

Gohachi Shobō

1994.5

ぼくの武蔵野

Boku no musashino

My Musashino

宮下登喜雄版画と文

Tokio Miyashita prints and text

吾八書房

Gohachi Shobō

1993.5

白秋詩抄

Hakushū shishō

Hakushū Kitahara Poetry

北原白秋詩 ; 宮下登喜雄銅版画

Hakushū Kitahara poetry; Tokio Miyashita etchings

吾八書房

Gohachi Shobō

1992.12

The Woodblock Prints and Engravings Bound Into the Book

Aikawa rakujitsu
Sunset at Aikawa River
page 3
image size: 6 9/16 x 5 3/16 in. (16.7 x 13.2 cm)

Lighthouse over Senkakuwan Bay
page 14
image size: 1 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (4.4 x 8.9 cm)

Stone monument
page 18
image size: 5 1/16 x 1 7/8 in. (12.9 x 4.8 cm)

Ishi koboshi
Stone acolytes - Jizou
page 19
image size: 3 x 4 5/8 in. (7.6 x 11.7 cm)

Kinzan Doyu no Warito
Sado Gold and Silver Mine Doyu Opening
page 27
image size: 6 3/16 x 5 1/8 in. (15.7 x 13 cm)
[V-shaped mountain-top split resulting from opencast mining in the Edo period]

Ishi koboshi
Stone acolytes
page 35
image size: 3 9/16 x 4 7/8 in. (9 x 12.4 cm)

Fishing village on Sotokaifu coast
page 39
image size: 6 1/8 x 5 in. (15.6 x 12.7 cm)

Fishing village
page 41
image size: 3 1/2 x 4 11/16 in. (8.9 x 11.9 cm)

Ondeko
Deity mask dance
page 44
image size: 4 1/8 x 4 11/16 in. (10.5 x 11.9 cm)
[Ondeko is a quintessentially Sado traditional performing art. It is offered on many occasions, rituals and festivals in Sado, to pray for the year's good harvest or catch, and the well-being of families.]

Noroma Ningyo
Noroma puppet theater
page 47
image size: 6 9/16 x 5 3/16 in. (16.7 x 13.2 cm)
[A Tangible Folk Cultural Property, in which the verses are spoken in an idyllic Sado dialect]

Table of Contents and Colophon

Table of Contents
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はしがき Introduction
佐渡の風土 Sado’s topography
小木・宿根木 Ogi・Shukunegi
流人文化 Wandering culture?
金銀宝の山 Doyu-no-warito
石小法師 Ishi koboshi
外海府 Sotokaifu (coast of Sado)
佐渡の芸能 Performing arts of Sado
佐渡で燃えた二人の男 unread

Colophon
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版画・文・装訂・刊行宮下登喜雄
Prints・writing・ cover design・ publication: Miyashita Tokio
印刷栄光社 printer: Eikosha
製本山田大成堂 bookbinding: Yamada Taiseidō
用紙山田商会・東秩父和紙センター
paper: Yamada Shōkai Co. Ltd ・ Higashichichibu washi center
発行吾八書房 publisher: Gohachi Shobō
刊行ー九九九年十月二十日 publication: October 20, 1999
第七回くらぶデときお刊本 The 7th book of the Tokio Club

Book Details

IHL Catalog	#1511
Title	Sado Traveler's Journal 佐渡紀行 Sado kikō
Series
Artist	Miyashita Tokio (1930–2011)
Signature	T Miyashita in pencil on top of opening page
Seal	not sealed
Date	1999
Edition	20 of 170
Publisher	Gohachi Shobō 吾八書房
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	excellent
Genre	ehon; shasei kikō (sketch-tour); sosaku hanga (creative print)
Miscellaneous
Format
H x W Paper	overall book dimensions: 10 3/8 x 7 5/16 x 5/8 in. (26.4 x 18.6 x 1.6 cm)
H x W Image
Collections This Print	National Diet Library JP番号 20049180
Reference Literature

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7/9/2021 created