Sophia Books has been importing books from Japan since 1975. Our expertise in this field has created special relationships within the tattoo book publishing world. We are proud of offering the tattoo community our selection of carefully chosen titles. Sophia Books’ “Tattoo Collections” will leave its mark.
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36 Ghosts by Horiyoshi III ISBN: 4890488413
Publication date: July 2007
$199.00 CDN
The Price Collection ISBN: 409681881X
Publication date: September 2006
Publisher: Shogakukan
$1610.00 CDN (special order only)
"Price Collection" refers to may works centering around Edo period paintings of Jakuchu Ito, collected by Mr. Joe Price (California, U.S.). Some fifty years ago, Mr. Joe Price became fascinated by, and began to collect these paintings by the long forgotten artists of the Edo period. "Price Collection" is currently world renowned for its superb Edo period paintings. This book presents a selection of 200 works chosen from more than 600 works in the collection as well as a supplementary book containing commentaries by 12 art historians. Also includes a DVD (Region 2-JPN) of Mr. Price explaining about his collection.