Japanese Studies
H.G. Ponting
Second Edition, 1920
Printed by Taikosha

 
Ponting, H. G.
Taikosha (Collotypes):
Japanese Studies by H. G. Ponting. F.R.G.S. Collotyped by Taikosha, distributed by Kelly Walsh, Limited, Yokohama, Second Edition, oblong 8vo (11 x 7 1/2 in 28 x 20 cm), 1920 (Taisho 9), bound Japanese style with blue and with string ties, head and foot of spine covered approximately 1 in with cloth, decorated (color) paper over thick cardboard (not pliable) covers, folded pages (with thin folded paper stiffener inside) protected by tissue guards, 52 Japanese scenes taken by the noted English photographer H. G. Ponting and printed in collotype by Taikosha, pages unnumbered. Images are various sizes with a typical image size of 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. Each image has a descriptive title in the left or right margin and most have a relevant line of poetry below the image. The text in this book is printed in red.

A noted photographer, Ponting spent three years traveling throughout Japan. This was just prior to his travels with Scott and Shackleton in the Antarctic, as the official photographer for the expeditions.

A first edition of the book was printed in 1906 with collotypes by the K. Ogawa. For more information on the first edition, click here.

Collotypes (Black and White Collotype Plates, 1920 Taikosha Edition).

1. Mount Fuji
   

2. Evening at Matsushima
3. *The Pine Clad Shores of Nippon
4. *Miyajima

5. The Ivory Carvers
   

6. Nara, the Heart of Old Japan
7. The Abbot of Ikegami
8. In Shiba Park, Tokyo
9. A Summer Shower in the Woods
10. Lake Motosu and Mount Fuji
11. Meditation, A Study of Gamman-ga Fuchi
12. O Tsune San

13. *At Matsushima
    

14. *Kameido Temple Garden Tokyo

15. Traveling by Kago in the Nikko Mountains
    

16. Fishing Boats at Kawasaki
17. Himeiji Castle
18. On the Hozu Rapids
19. A Priest of Buddha
20. Tamadare-no-taki, Hakone
21. Tea Picking on the Shizuoka Hills
22. An Avenue of Torri at Inari, Kyoto

23. The Story Book
    

24. In an Old Garden
25. The Fortune Teller

26. The Embroiderer
    

27. At Fair Miyajima
28. Wisteria
29. The Pines of Mio
30. A Study of the Shoji
31. The Avenue at Nikko
32. A Prayer Wheel at Zenkoji
33. A Glen on the Hozu-gawa
34. A Priest of Kunozan
35. On a Pilgrimage to Nara
36. The Bronze Sculptor
37. The Nara Pagoda

38. A Study of a Geisha
    

39. Kinkakuji, Kyoto
40. In Lotus Land
41. In a Japanese Garden

42. Painting Pottery
    

43. The Golden Days of Autumn
44. November at the Flower Show
45. On the Tokaido
46. The Potter at his Wheel
47. Moonlight at Kiyomizu, Kyoto

48. December in Japan
    

49. The Daiya River at Nikko
50. Lake Kawaguchi from Torii zaka
51. Lake Kawaguchi
52. Sayonara

 
* These four plates (two pages folded) are in different sequence in the 1906 first edition with black and white collotype plates by K. Ogawa

 
Title Page
1920, Second Edition, Collotyped by Taikosha

1920, Second Edition, Collotypes by Taikosha

 
Colophon
1920, Second Edition, Collotyped by Taikosha

Printed: Meiji 39(1906).11.26
Published: Meiji 39(1906).11.29
Reprint: Taisho 9 (1920).8.3